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Love in a Fucked Up World w/ Dean Spade

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Note: This episode was originally released April 21st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about holding together political coalitions, friendships, and organizing partnerships in the face of a culture of disposability and a world on fire. Find Dean's new book, Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together, here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dean-spade/love-in-a-fcked-up-world/9781643756462/ Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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Figuring out how to hold for all of us that our entire lives, we will literally be saying

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the same things over and over again and trying to find the energy and love in it.

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Like for me, spending my whole life in the prison abolition fight, in the fight with

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other Jews about Palestine, and the fight around trans inclusion, any of these things in

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a zillion different spaces just being like, I'm deciding right now to go into this space

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and push for this because I think it matters. Welcome to the Deaf Panel.

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Patrons, thank you. Your support truly makes this show possible. We couldn't do any of

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this without you. If you value our work and you want to help keep this project going, become a

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patron. We rely on listeners like you to sustain the show. Join at patreon.com slash death panel pod,

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and you'll get access to weekly bonus episodes and our full back catalog with hundreds of hours

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of bonus content.

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And to help us out some more, post about your favorite episodes, pick up copies of health

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communism, a short history of trans misogyny, and abolish rent at your local bookstore, or

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request them at your local library, hold reading or discussion groups, share the show with someone

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who needs to hear it, and of course, you can also follow us at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Soutler Bolton, and I'm joined today by returning guest

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and dear friend of the panel, Dean Spade, to talk about his new book called Love in a

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fucked up World, How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. Dean has spent

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decades working to build queer and trans liberation,

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grounded in racial and economic justice. He is a longtime organizer who by day works as a law

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professor. You might know him from his work in the early 2000s, setting up the Sylvia Rivera

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Law Project, or his 2015 documentary on pinkwashing, or numerous other projects. Dean is also the author of the

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book's Normal Life, Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law from

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