577: AMA with Dean Spade, part 1

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

Jessica Lanyadoo

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this very special episode, Jessica joins Dean Spade for the first AMA episode of his podcast: Love in a F*cked Up World. Jessica and Dean answer listener questions about how to navigate our relationships with friends in the context of these terrifying times, how to deal with differing awareness and practices around COVID in our community spaces, and how to negotiate and reckon with differences in class and access to resources in organizing. We got so many great questions from listeners that we’ll be releasing this conversation in two parts. Support this podcast by joining the Love in a F*cked Up World community on Patreon for conversations about the themes of the show and to submit your questions for future AMA episodes. Jessica Lanyadoo is host of Ghost of a Podcast, out twice weekly and available everywhere podcasts are heard. Find out more about her work at lovelanyadoo.com and join her on Patreon at patreon.com/jessicalanyadoo Resources for this episode: Info about Long COVID: https://longcovidjustice.org/resources/learn-about-long-covid/ https://longcovidjustice.org/trans/ Info about mask bloc and clean air club organizing and some examples: https://maskbloc.org/about/ https://cleanairclub.org/about https://www.instagram.com/seattlecleanair/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/masksforlondon/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/breathe.better.berlin/ https://www.instagram.com/glasgowmaskbloc/?hl=en 📺 Watch the video version of Ghost of a Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/jessicalanyadoo/videos! 📍 Find loads of extras + a monthly bonus episode of Ghost only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaLanyadoo 🔮 Learn with Jessica, get her astrology book, and find your free weekly horoscope at https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ 🧘‍♂️ Get Jessica's new audiobook, Meditations for Your Sign, here: https://tiny.cc/0sywzz 👀 Track transits like a pro! Astrology for Days is available at astrologyfordays.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator. And I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit, mystical advice for living your very best life.
0:16.0	Welcome to a very special episode of Ghost of a Podcast. I had the pleasure and the fun of joining up
0:24.3	with Dean Spade of Lovin and F-D-Up World. And we answered a bunch of listener questions from
0:31.0	over on his feed. It's turned out to be really fun. And I hope you enjoy this AMA.
0:37.8	This is part one of two.
0:47.0	I'm Dean Spade.
0:48.3	Welcome back to Love and a Fucked Up World, the podcast, where we talk about how to build
0:51.9	and sustain strong connections with each other,
0:58.0	because our resistance movements are made of our relationships and are only as strong as they are. Thanks to everyone who's already joined us over on Patreon, I hope you'll consider joining us
1:01.6	there to be part of conversations about themes from the podcast and help shape future episodes.
1:05.9	Cito, one of the members of the podcast team, and who also is the animator of the stop motion animation video
1:11.5	about mutual aid that maybe you've seen that I released in 2019 and has circulated often
1:15.8	on social media. He asked me to do a live event on Patreon recently where we talked about
1:20.5	themes from my next book, Getting Shit Done and Fucked Up World. We talked about procrastination,
1:25.1	how to pace our work, anxiety and collaborations, and so much more.
1:28.8	You can watch the video of that session on Patreon and join us for the next one.
1:33.0	Thanks to everybody who is there during the live, sharing brilliant questions and insights
1:36.5	about your own relationships to organizing, collaboration, and getting shit done.
1:40.9	We really appreciate all the support and love we've gotten for the podcast and just wanted
1:44.0	to mention a few more ways you can support.
1:45.7	If you're listening to this podcast on Apple or Spotify, it helps us if you follow, rate, and review the podcast.
1:52.2	Another way you can support the podcast is to spread the word.
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