Mini-Episode: Shock + Innocence

About this episode

Prentis reflects on their time in Minneapolis and discusses themes of shame, patriarchy, and the performance of shock in relation to innocence.

In this week’s mini-episode, Prentis reflects on their time in Minneapolis, what the Epstein files are revealing to us about shame and patriarchy, and how the performance of shock is tied to our own need to be innocent. Join us over on Patreon to watch the full episode and come explore these themes and topics together - @Prentishemphill Support the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de LeñaSound Engineer and Editing: Michael MaineOriginal ...

People in this episode

Host: Prentis Hemphill

Topics covered

• shame
• patriarchy
• innocence
• shock
• Minneapolis
• performance

Keywords

• shame
• patriarchy
• shock
• innocence
• Minneapolis
• Epstein files

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Epstein files

Places: Minneapolis

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