Welcome 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 Apart

Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You

Kelly Hayes: Organizing my Thoughts

Kelly Hayes: Movement Memos

Movement Memos: We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference (the Social Deskilling episode)

Our social deskilling episode, if you missed it

If Anyone Can Pull off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans

Is Marriage the Building Block of Society? Or Is It Neighbors?

Chris Begley, The Next Apocalypse

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: Cyberboss

Buy Sarah's Book: From the Ashes

You can send us your questions at ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠.

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Episode 35: Patience is a Practice, with Kelly Hayes