Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill episodes

June 10[Revisit] Survival Is A Promise with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This episode originally aired in August 2024.
We gather to honor the luminous legacy of Audre Lorde through the lens of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' radiant new book, Survival Is a Promise. Alexis joins us to unveil the journey of crafting Audre's biography, a tribute to the vibrant pulse and power of Audre’s words and practice. Together, we revel in the profound lessons Audre imparted on us about survival, courage, and love.
Alexis’ new book is available now, Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and you can follow her work here @alexispauline
Read the transcript for this conversation here
You can learn more about Prentis’ work below
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
Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla
Original Music: Mayyadda
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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
46 min
June 03[Revisit] Embodying Existence with Kai Cheng Thom
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.
Read the full transcript of this conversation here.
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Follow Kai on IG @kaichengthom and support the projects they mentioned in this episode:
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
52 min
May 27[Revisit] Conjuring Worlds with Maurice Mitchell
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.
Follow @prentishemphill on Instagram to see show clips or become a Patreon Subscriber to support the podcast and gain access to the full unedited conversations and visual episodes!

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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
56 min
May 20[Revisit] Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril
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.
Follow Malkia on Instagram @culturejedi and support the projects they mentioned in this episode:
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
59 min
May 13Reverence for Death with Alua Arthur
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
Follow Alua on Instagram
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
1 hr 2 min
May 06Mini-Episode: The Practice of Imagination
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
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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
34 min
April 29Holistic Prosperity with Aisha Nyandoro
Aisha Nyandoro is the CEO of Springboard To Opportunities and leader in the campaign to end generational poverty through guaranteed income. She joins Prentis this week to talk about her program Magnolia Mother’s Trust. They also discuss what the true meaning of wealth is and how our institutions shape the idea of who is worthy and deserved. Aisha brings a call of radical resourcing and shares her vision for what’s possible if our communities didn’t have to live in scarcity and we actually supported our people to thrive.
Notes:
Springboard to Opportunities
Support Magnolia Motherhood’s Trust

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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
49 min
April 22Mini-Episode: Traitors to Patriarchy
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 reshape what it means to be a good man.
An hour after Prentis recorded this episode about patriarchal violence, they read the news about the man who took the lives of his wife and children in Shreveport. The femicide, as Tarana Burke reminds us, doesn't even slow down for us to name it.
Content warning: Prentis speaks about sexual violence, rape culture and the manosphere, please take care of yourself and come back to it when you feel resourced.
Notes:
Listen to Prentis on the 10% Happier Podcast w/Dan Harris
Check out Prentis’ Child’s Map of the World
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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
32 min
April 15Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé
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 second fall of humanity.
Check out Dr. Akómoláfé’s new book, Selah
Follow Báyò on Instagram
If you enjoyed this episode, listen to Báyò’s first conversation with Prentis from the Finding Our Way podcast.
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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
49 min
April 08Mini-Episode: A Non-Contingent Self
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 belonging to something bigger to help us build the most powerful, authentic and potent versions of ourselves.
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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
35 min