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Heart Reacts
Hosted by Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe · EN
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the feels.”
We are HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for everyone trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We’re here to answer all of the questions about love, friendship, family, and even work that you might want to ask two people who have spent adulthood trying to apply their radical political analysis, more or less successfully, to their personal lives.
We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.
You can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.
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Episode 39: All Talk and No Trousers
2w ago00:59:10Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We're back! Deepest apologies for the delays, thank you for bearing with us.This week, we tell you where we've been and why. And then we address the ambiguous loss of a changed friendship, and how and when to call it quits.Stuff We Talk About:Erin Williams Our Relationship Is Not WorkingLabor Rising: the Past and Future of Working People in AmericaAce: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of SexDougie McLain, CaledoniaSarah: From the AshesWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 38: An Easier Time Showing Up
Mar 3001:05:40Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. This episode contains discussion of sexual violence; there is a content note at the beginning of the discussion, and it ends at 23:00.This week, we sit with the news that U.S. labor icon Cesar Chavez had abused young girls, and consider the relationship between this story and a type of letter we often get. Then we hear an update of sorts from our Lonely Male letter-writer, and think about the challenges of being the friend who usually does the social labor: when do you get to take a break?Stuff We Talk About:Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcersDolores Huerta’s civil rights legacy was inextricably linked with Cesar Chavez. Then she accused him of abuseCesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for YearsHarold Meyerson: Cesar FallsTrade Union Accused of Sitting on Report Into ‘Toxic’ Culture700,000 Female Farmworkers Say They Stand With Hollywood Actors Against Sexual AssaultJames Muldoon, Love Machines'I hugged armed man to stop him bombing hospital'We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 37: Reversing the Decline
Mar 1301:00:42Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. This week we have a follow-up from a previous questioner who wants more advice on what to do when your union breaks your heart--how to forgive, how to forget, and how to fix a labor movement that often doesn't take its duty of care seriously. And of course we check in about dogs, films, and life in late capitalist hell.Stuff We Talk About:Crime 101Disabled People and Care Workers Must Build Common Cause in the Fight for Better Conditions by Jamie HaleJudith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin, Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial UnionsNate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive EraErik Loomis, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest ForestsLes Leopold, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony MazzocchiDeath Panel PodcastWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 36: Being Taught Not to Feel
Feb 2701:12:09Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We're back! And we have thoughts on masculinity, heterosexuality, and capitalism. First about the Olympics, and the pleasures and misfires of watching sports through the lens of the nation, and then we answer a letter about being a "lonely male," and how to learn to be comfortable with feeling.Stuff We Talk About:Men's Freestyle Skiing Big Air Final (Highlights)I, TonyaRed ArmyMiracleCraig: No Crying ShameA.S. Hamrah on Tech Won't Save UsWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 35: Patience is a Practice, with Kelly Hayes
Jan 2601:09:37Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. This week is a special episode, so it's dropping on Monday. We're bringing you a very special guest, Menominee author, organizer, journalist, editor, podcaster, and friend of the show Kelly Hayes. Kelly is just out with a new book that she's edited, a collection of letters to comrades from comrades, for moments when the struggle feels hopeless. It's a form of advice book, and so we thought it would be a great time to get Kelly on to talk about her work, and her concept of "social deskilling," which has been so important to us here at Heart Reacts.Stuff We Talk About:Kelly Hayes, Read This When Things Fall ApartKelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize YouKelly Hayes: Organizing my ThoughtsKelly Hayes: Movement MemosMovement Memos: We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference (the Social Deskilling episode)Our social deskilling episode, if you missed itIf Anyone Can Pull off a General Strike, It’s MinnesotansIs Marriage the Building Block of Society? Or Is It Neighbors?Chris Begley, The Next ApocalypseWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →E34 Episode 34: Specific Units of Emotionality
Jan 801:23:06Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We're back, we survived the holidays, and we have some thoughts on emotional libertarianism to share with you. Some of you have asked what we mean by this term, which we've used occasionally, so we took the opportunity to dig into it a little bit. And then, we answer a question about what it means to be a romantic, anyway.We need your questions!! Send them to us at https://www.askmeanything.cc/heartreactsAlso, Heart Reacts has its own Instagram now! Follow us, send us memes and ideas, leave us comments...Stuff We Talk About:Alexandra Kollontai, The Social Basis of the Female QuestionMichael Hardt “Red Love” Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Sick and TiredHeat at 30: Michael Mann’s electric crime thriller is a film of fire and sadnessKelly Hayes, Read This When Things Fall ApartMarita Alonso, “Las mujeres piensan en el regalo que están dando. Los hombres no”: ¿hay una brecha de género en el arte de regalar?Diane Di Prima, Revolutionary Letter No 19Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater’s brief encounter defies romantic convention‘Black Bag’ Is a Great Spy Thriller — and an Even Better Marriage DramaWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 33: I'm So In Love I Want a Baby That Has Your Face
Dec 1201:14:53Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. Heart Reacts now has an Instagram! Follow the pod directly for faster updates and more relationship memes.This week, we check in about "chatfishing" and cognitive dissonance around AI, and then we consider whether or not (and how) to parent inside the coupled norm.Stuff We Talk About:This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirderConversation on Workplace Trust with Sarah MosseriSarah: Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on The AI ConJames Muldoon, Love MachinesThe right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on itIron Ladies filmAgainst The Grain: Archiving anarcho-punkLogic(s) Magazine Issue 23: Land (with Craig's article!)Jules Joanne Gleeson: This Infamous ProposalSarah: Family Planning (review essay)Engels, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" Madeline Lane-McKinley, Solidarity with ChildrenMichèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh, The Anti-Social FamilyAngela Davis: Women and Capitalism:Dialectics of Oppression and LiberationDavid Collinson and Stephen Ackroyd, “Resistance, Misbehavior and Dissent”Dorinne K. Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese WorkplaceWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 32: Big Linklater Energy
Nov 2801:05:42Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We apologize for being late! Life, work, and the collapse of...well, you know, got in the way.But this week we talk once again about what to do when your union breaks your heart, and then spend a while considering how to avoid breaking someone else's. What do you do when communication on screens feels easier than communication face to face (and body to body)?Stuff We Talk About:Mattie Lubchansky comicMark Fisher, Capitalist RealismAudre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s HouseSarah, Worker Centers, Where Causes Cohere and Forge Power Antonio Gramsci, “Americanism and Fordism”James W. Carey, Communication as CultureWalter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History”Scott Pilgrim Vs. The WorldThe “Before” TrilogyWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 31: Everything is Embarrassing
Nov 601:06:48Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. This week, we're low on questions so we thought we'd talk to each other about a couple of viral relationship articles that are in productive tension. We poke at our ongoing discomfort with terminology, the still-brokenness of heterosexuality, and why caring about stuff is cool again. And then we answer a question about organizing, capacity, and crisis.We need your questions!! Send them to us at https://www.askmeanything.cc/heartreactsStuff We Talk About:What Is “Chalance” and Why Is Everybody Looking for It on Dating Apps?Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative CinemaW.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk bell hooks, All About LoveFriedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the StateAlyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of NatureRadical Emprints: Fight With the Tools that are Uniquely YoursWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Episode 30: Down with Ambiguity
Oct 2001:04:20Tap to summarizeWelcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. This week, we're yet again talking about the trials and travails of organizing with other messy humans, and the importance of clarity in both romantic and organizational relationships. (And a sidebar about how much Sarah hates the term "situationship.")Stuff We Talk About:Lynne Segal, Straight SexLynne Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities and Changing MenMariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability PractitionersJust Practice collaborativePaolo Gerbaudo, The Digital PartyJane McAlevey, Raising Expectations and Raising HellThe dearly departed Big Mood, Little Mood podcastSarah: The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way for LA's Teachers' StrikeDiane Di Prima: Revolutionary Letter #8 (online) and Revolutionary Letters (book)We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and Sarah Jaffe, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at patreon.com/HeartReacts. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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