The carceral apocalypse: Intimacy, Community, and Embodied Abolition in Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's How to Survive the End of the World

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines embodied abolition as the affective practices of liberation that helps one to survive the carceral apocalypse, the ongoing apocalyptic conditions of carcerality that will necessitate an end of the carceral state. By conducting an ethnographic study of Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's podcast How to Survive the End of the World, I explore how podcast(ing), as a digital space that can extend beyond spatiotemporal boundaries, can be a site that activates social change. I argue that their podcast encourages anticarceral ways of forming community and calls for us to practice freer ways of being, knowing, and learning for the carceral apocalypse. I explore how Autumn and adrienne's podcast utilizes aspects of embodied abolition, such as intimacy and communal practices, to demonstrate the embodied practices necessary for abolition.