Threads of Connection with Dean Spade

Threads of Connection with Dean Spade

Author: Prentis Hemphill March 3, 2026 Duration: 52:31
Dean Spade joins the pod this week to discuss his book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together. He brings a sharp, layered perspective on how we are shaped by the systems around us—and how we can wake up to the patterns of control we’ve internalized. Together, we explore what it means to turn our relationships into spaces for healing, liberation, and deeper connection. Get Dean’s book, Love in a F*cked Up WorldFollow Dean on InstagramCommun...

Prentis Hemphill, known for their work on Finding Our Way, now hosts Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill. Here, Prentis engages in thoughtful, often intimate conversations with a range of voices-thinkers, artists, and practitioners who are actively shaping our understanding of society and culture. These dialogues circle around urgent, foundational questions: what does genuine human evolution look like, and how can we foster relationships that don't just connect us but fundamentally change us for the better? Each episode feels like a shared inquiry into the mechanics of healing, both personal and collective. You'll hear discussions that are less about easy answers and more about exploring the nuanced, sometimes difficult terrain of how we live with one another. This podcast serves as a space to sit with the complexities of transformation, examining the daily practices and big ideas that might guide us toward becoming different people, and in turn, creating a different world. It’s for anyone who believes that the path forward is woven through honest connection and courageous self-reflection.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 61

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Podcast Episodes
Mini-Episode: Traitors to Patriarchy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:57
Prentis is sharing a rageful invitation and calling all Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy. They are sharing their thoughts on how the manosphere manipulates men’s pain for more power, and how we need more traitors to…
Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:05
Posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, author and our favorite trickster, Báyò Akómoláfé is on the podcast again. Prentis and Báyò get lost in this episode as they traverse Blackness, radical non-completion, AI, and the se…
Mini-Episode: A Non-Contingent Self [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:44
This week’s episode is centered around cultivating a relationship with self that is non-contingent. A self that is not tied to or determined by the myths of human beings. They are exploring how to activate a sense of bel…
Erotic Energy with Melissa Febos [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:41
Author Melissa Febos is here to talk about her book The Dry Season - a memoir of her year of celibacy. Prentis and Melissa explore how to build a true understanding of our interiors, erotic energy outside of sex, and wha…
Mini-Episode: A Movement that Can Grow [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:46
In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis is talking about the kind of movement they want to b a part of. A movement rooted in empathy, filled with curiosity and where we take the risks to traverse the distance between each o…
Care is a Lifeforce with Ai-jen Poo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:49
Ai-jen Poo, the Executive Director the Domestic Workers Alliance joins Prentis this week to share her vision for how care is the foundation to democracy and how we get free.They explore how caregivers are futurists, imag…
Mini-Episode: Children as Sacred [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:49
This week’s mini episode is a love letter to children. Prentis reflects on how they are carrying the greatest weight of cruelty in our time—and why failing to protect them betrays our future. Prentis also shares an invoc…
Hallelujah with Sendolo Diaminah [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:22
Sendolo Diaminah is here to point us to the pathway of hallelujah! Co-Director of the Carolina Federation and community strategist, Sendolo brings profound wisdom for how we’re abdicating our power, shares how she is gui…
Mini-Episode: Shock + Innocence [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:34
In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis reflects on their time in Minneapolis, what the Epstein files are revealing to us about shame and patriarchy, and how the performance of shock is tied to our own need to be innocent.…
Survivor Power with Tarana Burke [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:38
Activist, advocate, author, and co-founder of the me too movement, Tarana Burke joins Prentis for this episode. Tarana is sharing the portals that me too has opened and made possible in our culture, her framework on the…