Help This Garden Grow

Help This Garden Grow

Author: How to Survive the End of the World June 28, 2024 Duration: 44:41

We're taking some time off this summer but while we're away we're excited to share some shows in our ecology. Today we're playing part of a docuseries from the folks at Respair Media.

Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger talk with organizers, policy- makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement. 

Help This Garden Grow is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery.


Sisters Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown host How to Survive the End of the World, a podcast rooted in their shared lives as writers, activists, and facilitators shaped by multiracial diasporic lineages. This isn't a theoretical discussion about distant catastrophes; it's a direct, grounded conversation about the endings we are all already living through-the collapse of systems, the death of old ways, and the personal transformations that feel like worlds dissolving. Each episode delves into the tangible, often messy practices a community needs to navigate these ruptures. You'll hear them explore how we grieve, how we organize, how we imagine futures, and how we find wholeness even as things fall apart. The dialogue is intimate and urgent, moving from the kitchen table to the front lines of social change, always asking what it means to survive with integrity and connection. This podcast operates from the belief that learning to face endings together is the first, most necessary step toward building something new. For more from Autumn and adrienne, find them at endoftheworldshow.org.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

How to Survive the End of the World
Podcast Episodes
election time with Makani Themba [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:57
deep breath of a conversation with Makani Themba, author of the forthcoming Our Beautiful Next, about time, elections, power, spirit, corporate pressure and more. #electiontimewithamb --- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUP…
A Motherful World with Alexis Pauline Gumbs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:10
You know we love Alexis Pauline Gumbs here at HTS, so we're so excited to present her episode from a show we recently discovered. It's called Mother is a Question. MIAQ is an invitation into the depths of mothers’ hearts…
Endurance Check In with Hala Alyan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:37
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Becoming the People with adrienne and Prentis Hemphill [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:57
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The Sisters Reunion Part 3: Top Culture & Beyond [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:45
Join the sisters as they discuss Columbia’s People’s Graduation, the new Keith Haring exhibit, Lovecraft Country, Charlotte Day Wilson, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Cowboy Carter, claiming space in the historic, moving…
Witch School 26, gina Breedlove [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:57
In a final, mistakenly overlooked Witch episode, gina Breedlove and adrienne get into Grace’s language, singing the Delfonics, kneeling before different altars, connecting to the throughline of love and peace, moving to…
The Sisters Reunion Part 2: Witch Report [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:49
Autumn interviews adrienne about our yearlong season of the Witch. They get into working with nature, Karis Nemik’s manifesto from Andor, humor as a spell, Autumns’ spit-takes from birth to death, Witch Season as a Delig…
The Sisters Reunion Part 1: Sabbatical Report [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:25
For their grand reunion, adrienne and Autumn discuss picking weeds (but not condemning their existence as a species), periods as Cave Goddess, what would a culture of ritual around friend-death look like, the month of Ap…
Witch School Graduation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:39
It's Witch School graduation day with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare! They discuss priestly practice, dropping down and back and into your center, movements of people around the world stepping up, conjuring love, the…
Witch School 25, Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:18
adrienne welcomes yoga teacher Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen to Witch School. Sign up for her newsletter here. They discuss A-ha moments during yoga, subtle shifts, the somatic experience of being alive, the miraculous mundane…