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Beloved survivor, if you are feeling depleted, defeated, lost and confused, we here at the show see you and feel you and invite you to apply to sister Autumn's fall program, The Fortification Cohort.
It's an 8-week process of collective and self study, where we learn how to practice fugitivity, and in so doing, map a new internal landscape defined by agency and courage, instead of dissociation and collapse.
Fugitivity is more than escape. It is making ourselves powerful, both individually and collectively. It is remembering a much longer timeline for our freedom fight, and holding connection to that reality no matter the conditions around us. It is a process of conditioning the soul for the righteous fight.
This program is for you if:- You want to practice freedom in your own life, but you are not sure how.
- You have an existing practice for self-regulation and have already done some of your own healing work.
- You have a working understanding of trauma, but you find the victim/oppressor dichotomy to be limiting and overly simplistic. You want an updated framework for understanding conditions as they are.
- You want to make change in the world, but struggle to turn your values and wisdom into action.
- You desire to work in multiracial and multi-class formation using black feminist principles, without throwing anyone away.
Head to Autumn's website for more information about the cohort: www.iambrown.org/fortification
Here is the direct link to the application: https://forms.gle/Zu4Cw8Ee7d1XCBJV829 June 2026, 3:45 pm - 32 minutes 36 secondsGo Straight to the Most Uncomfortable Stuff and Bring That Out: Autumn and adrienne Serve Up a Digestif to Their Art as Solidarity Season
The sisters wrap up their Art as Solidarity season with some hopeful reflections. They discuss their creative processes and the season's highlights including the centrality of art in resistance movements in Minneapolis, partnerships and collaborations among artists and the role of art in processing grief, trauma, and hope. And then they plant seeds for next season.
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19 June 2026, 9:46 am - 1 hour 6 minutesBody as Homeland with Leila Awadallah
Since Autumn first met Leila Awadallah at her aikido dojo, she's wanted to have her on the show. We are blessed to learn Leila's story on our penultimate episode of our art as solidarity season!
Leila Awadallah (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and film wanderer based between Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce and Beirut, Lebanon. Her research in dance centers movement that activates relationships to land / place / peoples, rooted in the context of her own skin as a body and soul that holds indigenous Palestinian, Arab-American, SWANA, Sicilian and mixed Mediterranean worlds and ways. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Body Watani (body-as-homeland) dance project and practice in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah, Co-Artistic Director.---
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12 June 2026, 1:26 pm - 1 hour 3 minutesHow to Remember a Forgotten Paradise with Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli
The sisters are elated to dialogue with two revolutionary artists, Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli. They share their love for art and one another and how their practices intersect with community, history, and transformation.
Charlotte is an award-winning artist, creative director, and theater director whose work moves across performance, spectacle, and immersive experience. Working across theater, opera, film, dance, installation, and site-specific performance, Brathwaite creates cross-disciplinary projects that bring narrative, sound, movement, and space into close relationship. Her genre-defying practice centers the histories, realities, and imagined futures of communities that have been historically excluded, engaging questions of power, race, social justice, and collective memory.
Malick is a Senegalese visual artist who lives and works in Dakar. His work lies at the intersection of fine art, photography and installation. His work has recently been shown at the National Museum of World Cultures in Leiden, Netherlands, and at the Chanel Fashion house’s 19M gallery. Welli is interested in religion, spirituality, power dynamics and how they shape visual culture. His work has been exhibited at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (USA); Art X Lagos ( Nigeria) EXPO CHGO (USA); Cairo Biennial (Egypt); AKAA (Also Known As Africa, France), among others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Chazen Museum of Art (USA).
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5 June 2026, 5:17 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteBlackness is the Radical Incompleteness of the World with Báyò Akómoláfé
The sisters are ecstatic for this long overdue convo with Báyò Akómoláfé, Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet.
Bayo's new book is Selah, about which adrienne writes, "Báyò Akómoláfé is a philosopher who is pushing us to think outside of every narrative we take for granted. In this text, he guides us to reconsider how we relate to the world—and to internalize the fact that earth and all of nature are alive, relating to us. Selah is an ancient Indigenous orientation, poured through Báyò’s trickster poetry to make for a fresh agitation.”---
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29 May 2026, 2:03 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteIt's All Holy and it's All Ridiculous with The Bengsons
Abigail and Shaun Bengson are a married composing and performing duo raising two children in NYC and Vermont. Abigail was previously on the show in 2023 during our Witch Season.
In this raucous and tender convo, The Bengsons trace the origins of their love and their most recent musical, My Joy is Heavy (watch an excerpt on Fallon!), which the New York Theatre Guide called "A MIND-BLOWING CELEBRATORY EXPLOSION" and 1-minute critic called "One of the most TRANSCENDENT EVENINGS OF THEATER you’ll see this year.”
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22 May 2026, 9:38 am - 1 hour 12 minutesLandscapes of Reactivity, an Epic Ask Us Anything!
Hey hey hey, it's a sister-sister AMA! Today on the show, adrienne and Autumn answer questions from our Patreon supporters. To access exclusive content and ask your own questions for future AMA episodes, become a BELOVED SURVIVOR TODAY!
On this episode the sister's address questions that touch on the intersection of their sisterhood, how they engage in conflict, what happens when they're both right, what's up the “theologian” part of Autumn’s bio, favorite facilitation books, how they've brought forth their most authentic and most helpful selves, finding a discipline or practice to receive lineage not connected to earning money (like aikido for Autumn) and what's bringing the sisters joy and light in these dark times!LINKS
Black Feminist Futures
-The Embodiment Institute
-Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity--
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25 April 2026, 2:09 pm - 1 hour 21 secondsHot and Vibrant for the Apocalypse with Denée Benton
Denée Benton (Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton! Cinderella in Into the Woods! Peggy Scott on The Gilded Age!) joins the sisters Brown to explore how creative work can serve social movements, the importance of community rituals, the evolving role of celebrity in activism, the strategic importance of joy, feeling panicked less and feeling vibrant more.
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17 April 2026, 9:51 am - 30 minutes 32 secondsIf hope is a muscle, then how do I build it?
Autumn is hosting another show and you're gonna love it!
In the Season Four premiere of the Climate Changed podcast, Autumn talks with Tory Stephens, a storyteller, cultural worker, and climate justice advocate.
They explore the transformative power of climate fiction and its role in helping us envision the future. Tory discusses his groundbreaking work at Grist, where he founded Imagine 2200, an initiative that asks a simple yet radical question: What if we wrote stories not about what we fear but about what we hope to create? The discussion dives into how imagination connects with responsibility, how storytelling serves as a profound form of spiritual leadership, and why envisioning a new reality is essential for climate justice.
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Thrutopia: Coined by philosopher Rupert Read and popularized by author Manda Scott through the Thrutopia Masterclass, a Thrutopian narrative threads the needle between utopia and dystopia. It focuses on writing grounded, plausible, and inspiring route maps that show exactly how we navigate through our current struggles to reach a future we’d be proud to leave behind.
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler: Autumn quotes the legendary science fiction author—who was the first African American woman to reach mainstream success in the genre—and her collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, reflecting on how sci-fi stimulates necessary imagination and creativity.
North Woods by Daniel Mason: A novel mentioned by Nicole Diroff from The BTS Center’s Summer Fiction Book Club, highlighting how fiction can make the natural landscape the main character.
Humans of New York: The iconic photoblog that Tory credits with changing his perspective early in his career, teaching him the unparalleled power of human-centric storytelling over dry statistics.
Visionary Fiction: A framework of world-building and storytelling that Autumn Brown and her sister use in their writing retreats, which actively wrestles with the sacred and reclaims spiritual practices.
Dream Seeds: A term favored by Grist and Imagine 2200 to describe stories that plant concrete, hopeful visions of how society could be organized completely differently.
Eve Mosher & Creating Your Story of Tomorrow: An adult education facilitator guide and video created by renowned environmental artist Eve Mosher, available on the BTS Center’s Leadership Commons.
“Seven Sisters” by Susan Kaye Quinn; 3rd place winner of the 2022 Imagine 2200 contest.
The Case of the Missing Lake by Colby Devitt; published in November 2025 by Imagine 2200.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/torystephens
Bluesky: @torystephens.bsky.social
Imagine 2200 (Grist): About Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction
More from Tory: Shaping the Future Through Climate Fiction (Podcast Interview)
Thank Yous: We want to extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who made this episode possible:
Tory Stephens, for sharing his incredible vision, imagination, and wisdom with us.
Peterson Toscano, producer of Climate Changed, for producing this episode and for providing the wonderful grounding for this episode.
The BTS Center team, for your ongoing support and for providing the resources and platform that make this podcast possible.
A podcast by The BTS Center exploring some of the most pressing questions about faith, life, and climate change.
Produced by Peterson Toscano, the podcast features acclaimed guests such as Brian McLaren, Elizabeth Rush, Craig Santos Perez, and many more.
10 April 2026, 9:24 am - 1 hour 1 minuteNew Life and Joy, Death and Grief, Absolute Bewilderment and Confusion with Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah
adrienne and Autumn are thrilled to explore the intersection of spirit, ritual and movement organizing with dear friends of the show, Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah. The conversation touches on creativity and art in ritual and ceremony, the role of geography and land in spiritual work and the challenge and potential of balancing political activism with ritual practice.
Kaji has over two decades of experience across a gamut of community organizing issues and spent seven years at Durham for All. Among other projects, he currently manages the land and animals of a budding community project called Owl Song.
Sendolo is the Co-Director of The Carolina Federation, where s/he works building governing power for working people and communities of color in North Carolina. S/he is a strategist with over 15 years of experience in community and electoral organizing, as well as experience winning and holding elected office.
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3 April 2026, 10:25 am - 1 hour 8 minutesA Flirtation with Capitalism with Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox
The sisters are ecstatic to welcome OBIE Award-winning artist Jenn Kidwell and ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox to discuss “we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism,” a play which invites "you to roll in the pigsty of American consumerism." The New Yorker calls Kidwell "a comic genius in a leopard-print bra and puffball coat."
In this episode, we learn how the play emerged, where its accretion of collaborators came from, mirror as metaphor and set-piece, the artistry of ASL and why everyone should learn it and how this striking work of art asks audiences to literally give Jenn money!---
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