Messiness is Where the Creativity Exists with Céline Semaan

Messiness is Where the Creativity Exists with Céline Semaan

Author: How to Survive the End of the World April 25, 2025 Duration: 1:03:54

adrienne is thrilled to connect with the co-founder of Slow Factory and author of A Woman is a School, Céline Semaan.

Celine shares her journey as a Lebanese-American and the founder of Slow Factory, emphasizing the need for slowness and mindfulness in a fast-paced world. They discuss the role of the Hakawati, the significance of personal narratives, the need to be humanized, the inadequacy of existing genres, the capacity to listen more and the process of writing a transformational text like Celine's book.

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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.
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