I'm Autumn Brown, front woman of the eponymously named Soul pop band, Autumn, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of

dragons, and a healing justice facilitator, and let's say orator, living on Dakota and a

Shinaba land currently known as Minneapolis.

I love you so much.

You are so weird.

I am Adrienne Marie Brown, the sister of the lead singer of Autumn.

I am a fat, black, queer witch writer, a gardener of healing ideas, and I feel like a

dividing rod for the ancestors. I live in the land of

the Shikori, Skorura, Tescor and Lumpy peoples. And this is how to survive the end of the world.

Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity. And learning from

apocalypse is what we are currently doing.

So we are not in our regular season.

We are on break, but Adrian and I wanted to come in with a love note and a prayer and a message and a spell in response to the devastating fires that are currently ongoing in L.A. County.

We are watching this disaster unfold live before our eyes. We have, like all of you, I'm sure,

we have loved ones who are in L.A. County, loved ones who have evacuated, loved ones who have

already lost their homes, people whose

lives have been forever and fundamentally altered and changed. And we wanted to just come in with some

spirit, presence, and prayer and love. Yes, sister.

You know, I, I feel like this is the time that our, when we started having this podcast and started having these conversations, I feel like we were thinking about this time.

You know, we were taking seriously that Octavia Butler had told us that this was coming.

And she told us when.

And she said exactly when.

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