Love in A F*cked Up World: Dean Spade on Love, Relationships and Community Building, Now

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Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Want more depth from your relationships? Feeling lonely and aren't sure what to do about it? You aren't alone, beloved. In a very special episode, we are very excited to welcome author, professor, and organizer Dean Spade! Dean breaks down why he felt called to write his latest amazing book, Love in a F*cked Up World: How To Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. This episode explores: Why we are conflict avoidant, and why it's not your fault How to build deeper relationships Simple ways to check yourself How honesty can strengthen all your relationships, including the one with yourself This is an episode you will take notes from, listen to numerous times, and forward to friends. Dean Spade Bio: Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He has written 3 books, his latest is Love In A F*cked-Up World. Find Dean here and here. Links mentioned: Creative Conflict Mariame Kaba transformharm.org Take $9 off Our Hermit Year Workshop with code PODGIFT until May 31. MOON STUDIO WORKSHOP LINKS Our Hermit Year. The Highly Sensitive In Relationship Mystic Vision Workshop. Future Self Workshop. Join the Moon Studio Patreon. Buy the 2025 Many Moons Lunar Planner. Subscribe to our newsletter. Find Sarah on Instagram.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the moonbeaming podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Sarah Faith Godestiner, an artist, author, and intuitive.
0:12.0	And together we'll explore life through a creative and spiritual lens.
0:17.0	You'll learn so much about mysticism, creativity, consciousness, depth psychology, business, and more.
0:25.1	And you'll get to listen to conversations with luminaries that you won't hear anywhere else.
0:31.8	With each episode, you'll receive insights, frameworks, inspiration, and tools to help you thrive and grow.
0:44.8	Hello, hello, and welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Sarah Faith Godestina,
0:51.7	and I am so honored to bring you a very special guest today,
0:58.3	having a very timely conversation.
1:02.2	Today I invited on the wonderful Dean Spate.
1:08.1	A couple of months ago, I picked up Dean's latest book. It's called
1:15.3	Love in a Fucked Up World, How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together.
1:22.6	And I was maybe two chapters in when first I said to my partner, okay, when I get through this, I'm reading
1:30.8	this out loud to you, because we have this, my partner and I have this little tradition where
1:35.8	once in a while I read to him before we go to bed. And it's just like a really nice way to go to
1:41.5	sleep, you know? Better if it's a really good book. And I
1:45.6	really, really, really wanted him to read it because I really, really want everyone to read this
1:51.9	book. I want everyone to read this book because it talks about things that I wish I had known 20 years ago. If I had had this book in my early
2:05.5	20s, I would not have been a not so cute person in relationships. I would have not gotten
2:16.8	into not so cute relationships. I would have had a much greater sense of how society,
2:26.6	namely toxic forces in society shape how we relate to one another. And I would have had a guidebook. I would have had help and support.
2:36.0	And that's what this book is. And it's really, really well timed as more and more we have
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