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How To Make Love™
Unconventional recipes for love and liberation. In a world filled with hate, injustice, and despair, our sense of shared humanity depends on learning to MAKE radical, revolutionary, justice-centered love. Not find it, not fall into it. But intentionally create and wield it. Centering the voices of historically and culturally marginalized people, How To Make Love™ will provoke and challenge you to create your own recipe for and practice of making more love — in your life, and in the world. And…
Episodes
How To Make Love™How To Die: Final Episode
Join end-of-life doula, coach, and host laura brewer for an exploration of death, love, and justice. Welcome to a special series and set of critical dialogues…
How To Make Love™How To Die: Episode 5 (ft. Dr. BJ Miller)
Join guest Dr. BJ Miller for a transformative conversation about grief. What it is, how it feels, the different shapes it takes, how to work with it, learn…
How To Make Love™How To Die: Episode 4 (ft. Nora Menkin & Anna Swenson)
Two minisodes in one! Join guests Nora Menkin & Anna Swenson for two in-depth conversations about death care: legal considerations, body disposition options…
How To Make Love™How To Die: Episode 3 (ft. Daisy Sharrock)
Join guest Daisy Sharrock for a deeply personal, moving story about loss. And intimacy. This is a conversation about creating intimacy with death, and the…
How To Make Love™How To Die: Episode 2 (ft. Iana Sundari Malcolm)
Join guest Iana Sundari for a powerful conversation about death and justice. Iana is a birth and death doula, and the Director of BIPOC Well-Being for The…
How To Make Love™How To Die: Special Series
Join end-of-life doula, coach, and host laura brewer for an exploration of death, love, and justice. Welcome to a special series and set of critical dialogues…
How To Make Love™58: Love & The Patriarchy
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of how our blueprints for how we love can get all twisted up in patriarchy and paternalism, without our even…
How To Make Love™57: "For me it was like a calling…I learned to live in truth in myself." (ft. Randy Quarterman & Sarah Eisner)
Join guests Randy Quarterman and Sarah Eisner to talk about ancestral healing, redress, and reparations to the descendants of American slavery. Randy and Sarah…
How To Make Love™56: Self, Family, and Organizational Care During Election Week
Join host laura brewer for discussion about practicing self, family, and organizational care during election week -- and how to prepare for it now. You can…
How To Make Love™55: "Racism is harmful. Divisive white allyship is harmful too." (ft. Dr. David Campt)
Join guest Dr. David Campt for a discussion on conversations between white progressives and white conservatives about racism in America. Dr. Campt is a…
How To Make Love™54: How To Be Awkward
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of how learning to be awkward can be an intentional practice of disrupting the oppressive status quo culture. You can…
How To Make Love™53: "Whatever it is, you're not the only one." (ft. Janine Kwoh)
Join guest Janine Kwoh for a discussion about making love by embracing awkward. Janine is the owner and artist behind Kwohtations, a Brooklyn, NY-based line of…
How To Make Love™52: How To Disarm
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of the ways we armor up, and what it takes to disarm. You can find a summary of the episode on the show notes page…
How To Make Love™51: "We have a responsibility as leaders to ask the question: why is it that way?" (ft. Erica Jordan-Thomas)
Join guest Erica Jordan-Thomas for a discussion about making love by leading on behalf of equity. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversation…
How To Make Love™50: How To Feel Lost
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about how to make self-compassion when we feel lost. Plus lots of the 'f' word. You can find a summary of the episode…
How To Make Love™49: "Moving money is my medicine." (ft. Edgar Villanueva)
Join guest Edgar Villanueva for a discussion about making love and justice through the inner and systemic work of decolonization. Find links to all of the…
How To Make Love™48: How to Radicalize
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about resisting the silence/shame binary when folks we love create harm -- plus -- a discussion about why and how to…
How To Make Love™47: "Do you love this person enough to be yourself & also change yourself?" (ft. Yolonda Coles Jones & Will Jones)
Join former guest Yolonda Coles Jones and her partner Will Jones for a frank discussion about making partnership, freedom, intimacy, conscious parenting, and…
How To Make Love™46: Inside-Out
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about the importance of building BOTH an external and internal practice of justice, and the inside-out work in response…
How To Make Love™45: "We no longer walk in the world in a way that is boxed in." (ft. Stacey & Jasmine Johnson)
Join guests and hosts of Black Zen – Stacey and Jasmine Johnson – for a discussion about making love and justice with meditation and mindfulness. Find links to…
How To Make Love™44: Practicing Peace
Join host laura brewer for a discussion how sheltering place provides both challenges and opportunities to practice making peace with and inside ourselves. You…
How To Make Love™43: "You've gotta stop acting like you're not qualified to tell a story." (ft. Colin Seale)
Join guest Colin Seale as we tackle imposter syndrome, authenticity, and making sure all kids get the learning experiences they deserve. Colin is the founder…
How To Make Love™42: How To Make Space
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about the role that making space plays in learning to make love and justice. And: how to create it. You can apply for…
How To Make Love™41: "Give me the opportunity to see your world for a while." (ft. Jenna Ushkowitz)
Join guest Jenna Ushkowitz as we dig into making belonging, identity, and worth. Jenna Ushkowitz is a Tony Award-winning producer, singer, actress, and podcast…
How To Make Love™40: Confusion > Certainty
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of the ways in which 'certainty' can be toxic for our spirits and our practice of justice. And why confusion and…
How To Make Love™39: "We imagine that by desiring money, we are causing harm." (ft. Jessie Susannah Karnatz)
Join guest Jessie Susannah Karnatz, the Money Witch, as we tackle all things money and how to build a responsible relationship with it in the context of…
How To Make Love™38: Justice and Liberation
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of the differences between 'justice' and 'liberation,' why those differences matter, and how each is incomplete…
How To Make Love™37: "Looking for the invisible takes extra effort." (ft. Rina Deshpande)
Join guest Rina Deshpande as we take on learning to become more aware of cultural appropriation in our physical and spiritual practices. Rina is a writer…
How To Make Love™36: How To Make Anger (ft. a cameo by Lama Rod Owens)
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of the cultural mythology surrounding anger, and how that mythology keeps us in cahoots with white supremacy culture…
How To Make Love™35: "Pleasure is at the heart of understanding that we are free & understanding how to get free." (ft. adrienne maree brown)
Join guest adrienne maree brown for a conversation about learning to make pleasure, science fiction, and freedom. And how they're all tied together. adrienne…
How To Make Love™34: Revise Your Sentence
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about your Sentence: what it is, how it functions, how it messes us up in our practice of justice, and why examining it…
How To Make Love™33: "Don't ignore the things that won't let you go." (ft. Jovian Zayne)
Join guest Jovian Zayne for a discussion all about BEing on purpose. And: how to find or refine your own personal purpose. Jovian is the founder of the…
How To Make Love™32: Imagination As Resistance
Join host laura brewer for an exploration of imagination, why it's essential for the work of liberation, why that's a problem for most of us, and what to do…
How To Make Love™31: "Curiosity & judgement can't occupy the same space." (ft. Emilee and Rob McGowan)
Join guests Emilee and Rob McGowan for a discussion about loss, tragedy, and creating intimacy and partnership – especially when it's lacking. Rob & Emilee are…
How To Make Love™30: How To Bear Witness
What does it mean to 'bear witness,' why is bearing witness important for the work of solidarity and justice, and how do you do it? Join host laura brewer for…
How To Make Love™29: "Creativity is the antidote to destruction." (ft. Climbing PoeTree)
Join guests Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree for a discussion about making love by BEing love, justice, and liberation. Climbing PoeTree…
How To Make Love™28: "To create something about love, I have to create it from love." (ft. laura brewer)
In a special 1 year anniversary mini-episode, the tables get turned on laura brewer, who sits in the hot seat to be interviewed about making love. You can find…
How To Make Love™27: "I'm reaching deeper, to the love that grief & rage grow out of." (ft. Dr. Katharine Wilkinson)
Join author & TED speaker Dr. Katharine Wilkinson for a discussion about how take care of and love our burning planet. And how to feel and tend to grief along…
How To Make Love™26: How to Retreat
There's retreating to escape the work of justice, and retreating to better be in the work of justice. Join host laura brewer for discussion about how to tell…
How To Make Love™25: "Organizing at the speed of love." (ft. Ai-jen Poo)
Join organizer & TED speaker Ai-jen Poo for a discussion about how to think and operate like an organizer in your day-to-day life, and how to actively support…
How To Make Love™24: How To Be Wounded
The root of the word vulnerability is "vulnus," meaning "to be wounded." Join host laura brewer for discussion about what radical vulnerability entails, how to…
How To Make Love™23: "Sex positivity is a philosophy and movement towards acceptance." (ft. Dr. Shannon Chavez)
Join guest Dr. Shannon Chavez for a discussion of making love through creating sex positivity. Dr. Chavez is a sex therapist and a clinical psychologist whose…
How To Make Love™22: How To Feel
Join host laura brewer for the heart work of learning how to feel our emotions AND discuss how/why feelings are intimately connected to our work in social…
How To Make Love™21: "For my story, I get to be the one that writes it." (ft. Elena Aguilar)
Join guest Elena Aguilar for a discussion of making love through creating resilience. Elena is a renown author and educational coach who has trained thousands…
How To Make Love™20: PowerLESS Love
Join host laura brewer for the heart work of learning to give up power and control in the ways we love those around us. In this episode, we'll go over ⚡️9…
How To Make Love™19: "For all that shall be: yes." (ft. Paula Stone Williams & Jonathan Williams)
Making love by choosing yes. Join guests Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams for a conversation about reconciliation, intentionality, and surrendering…
How To Make Love™18: Under the Influence of Urgency
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about making love by slowing down and divesting from a sense of urgency: in our lives, and in our organizations. In…
How To Make Love™17: "Language matters desperately." (ft. Rita Dove)
Love & language. Join guest Rita Dove for a conversation about making love, justice, and poetry. Rita is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, the poetry editor for…
How To Make Love™16: Courage & Fear
Join host laura brewer for a discussion about making love through cultivating courage, and UNlearning a ton of stuff about fear. In this episode, we'll look at…
How To Make Love™15: "When you return fire and begin dehumanizing others, you compromise your own Self." (ft. Simran Jeet Singh
Love & Hate. Join guest Simran Jeet Singh for a conversation about creating love and connection in the face or hate and racism. Simran is an activist and…
How To Make Love™14: How To Practice
Join host laura brewer for a lot of profanity, and to learn how to build an intentional practice of love and justice: in your life, and in the world. Learn…
How To Make Love™13: "People are always trying to define who I am." (ft. Miki Poy)
Join guest Miki Poy, for a conversation with one of our favorite fans about making love and creating belonging. Miki is an educational leader in the…
How To Make Love™12: "You need to call from inside the thing you want to liberate." (ft. Sadada Jackson)
Join guest Sadada Jackson for a conversation about making love with, in, and through our bodies. Sadada is an embodied practitioner of equity and teaches us…
How To Make Love™11: "I thought I couldn't be powerful if I were a loving leader." (ft. Christine Margiotta)
Join guest Christine Margiotta for a conversation about bringing love to work. Christine is the Executive Director of Social Venture Partners Los Angeles and…
How To Make Love™10: "The fight for justice, the fight for freedom, are always in accordance with the fight for love." (ft. Prof. David Kim)
Join guest Professor David Kyuman Kim for a conversation about the radical art of love in public, love in politics, and the heart (and hard) work required for…
How To Make Love™09: "To put love to the test is to see love expressed as justice." (ft. Rev. angel Kyodo williams)
Join guest Rev. angel Kyodo williams and laura as they discuss making love and justice. Rev. angel is a Zen priest, educator, and activist who ignites long…
How To Make Love™08: "All of the connections break when you are utterly broken." (ft. Yolonda Coles Jones)
Join guest Yolonda Coles Jones for a raw and honest conversation about making love when you are broken wide open. Artist, musician, mother, and entrepreneur…
How To Make Love™07: "There is a relationship between silence and suffering, and by God I'm going to break silence." (ft. Dr. Robin DiAngelo)
Join guest Dr. Robin DiAngelo for a provocative discussion about making love through disrupting white fragility and white supremacy. DiAngelo is a sociologist…
How To Make Love™06: "You just have to trust that there are enough people who will respond in a positive way that it's worth it." (ft. Megan Amram)
Guest Megan Amram shares how to make love through comedy, laughter, satire, and in 140 characters or less. Amram is an Emmy nominated writer, comedian, and…
How To Make Love™05: "I have as much passion as I have insecurity." (ft. Tre Johnson)
Join guest Tre Johnson, a writer for Rolling Stone and Vox, for an exploration of making love through writing, self-expression, and the nexus between pop…