The currently single Brown sisters discuss some of what they have learned about sustaining love - love for ourselves, love in relationship, love over time. They begin gathering a toolbox for sustaining love. They give us love homework.

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Rachelle Ferrell & Lalah Hathoway  Featuring Ledisi & Rahsaan on BG's "Love is All Around"

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HOW TO SURVIVE MERCH IS WAITING FOR YOU!

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Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg

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bell hooks offers us the wisdom that “love is an act of will, both an intention and an action.” in this episode the brown sisters explore hooks’ critique of the idea that we “fall in love”, the difference between falling in love and choosing to love, and how distinguishing between the two helps us to love in a way that protects and liberates the heart.

(image credit: National Equity Project)

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HOW TO SURVIVE MERCH IS WAITING FOR YOU!

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Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg

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We've got something for you as we get ready to return with the rest of our season All About Love. 

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adrienne and Autumn continue their exploration of bell hooks' classic All About Love with a free flowing conversation about the sacred, life saving power of friend love.

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with bell hooks' guidance, adrienne and Autumn trace the conditions that leave us hopeless and despairing at work, and look at what becomes possible when we bring love to our labor, regardless of the conditions. The sisters describe their own journeys into doing what they love to do, and discuss the importance of giving ourselves permission to be in love with our work.

Special thanks to Wren for their Sovereignty Hymn, follow them here!

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adrienne maree was honored to be invited to give the sermon at The Revival: It Is Our Duty, a Juneteenth, Pride Month musical ritual of reclamation created by Troy Anthony Burton, rooted in the wisdom of Assata Shakur. Troy was generous enough to let us share the sermon audio with you.

(episode art by Troy Anthony Burton)

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We learned a song from The Bengsons that we want everyone to learn and sing. Join us.

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We will not

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won't you celebrate with me - by Lucille Clifton

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won't you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.

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Lucille Clifton, “won't you celebrate with me” from Book of Light. Copyright © 1993 by Lucille Clifton.  Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press.

Source: Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)

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How to Support How to Survive

In this episode, adrienne and Autumn talk about opening up romantic relationships, the wonder of loving multiple partners, the challenge of love beyond monogamy, and the importance of partnering ourselves, first.

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The Brown sisters in very tender, intimate conversation about the times we are loving through and how we hold each other tight and keep co-creating the future.

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