Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

This episode was originally aired on July 1st 2024.
Kai Cheng Thom - MSW, Qualified Mediator, Somatic Sex Educator, performance artist, community healer, award-winning writer, and author of Falling Back in Love with Being Human joins us for this episode. A consummate dreamer and believer in revolutionary potential, Kai brings radical love to her work and this conversation. Join us while Kai and Prentis geek out about exciting and dangerous things like monster-making, harm and revenge, + queerness and love.
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Trans Pride Toronto
Maggie’s Toronto
Red Canary Song
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The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music: Mayyadda

This episode first aired in July 2024.
Prentis is joined by the National Director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell. Maurice shares the roots of his organizing; reminds us of our power as a people and inspires us to continue to conjure and build a compelling vision toward the worlds we dream of.

Support the organizations that Maurice mentioned in the episode:
Working Families Party
Movement for Black Lives
You can check out Prentis' new book What It Takes to Heal is available now.
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The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music: Mayyadda

We won't be dropping a new episode this week, as Prentis is away mourning the passing of their father. 
To honor this tender moment we are resharing an episode from last season with Transformative grief activist, movement strategist, and writer Malkia Devich Cyril. Malkia shares stories and wisdom from their personal experience of loss, the possibility that emerges when we attend to our grief, and their insight about how we choose to grieve can determine how we can change the world.
Thank you all for your kind wishes and we will be back soon with new episodes.
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Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC)
Vision Change Win
Highlander Center
Political Research Associates
The 22nd Century Initiative
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The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music: Mayyadda

Death doula, author and trainer, Alua Arthur, is a clear voice of what death could be if we brought it into the center of our lives. Alua brings her profound wisdom from confronting the existential and seemingly unfaceable realities of death. In this episode she breaks down the tastiest five layer fear of death cake and shares what’s possible for all of us when we hold death with reverence.
Check out Alua’s Book Briefly Perfectly Human
Going with Grace Death Doula Training
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Join us on our new Youtube channel for the Imposing Beauty on Our Future Livestream - get your tickets here!
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The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music: Mayyadda

Prentis addresses the rolling back of the Voting Rights Act and the impacts on our hope and imagination. They remind us of the power and audacity of the visionary ancestors that dared to dream before us, and encourage us to practice recovering our imagination to envision what we want next for our future.
Join us on our new Youtube channel for the Imposing Beauty on Our Future Livestream - get your tickets here!
Listen to the Dunums - Casual Planes Album
Support the show
The Becoming the People Podcast Team:
Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña
Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine
Original Music: Mayyadda