Episode 31: Everything is Embarrassing

Welcome 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.

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Stuff 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 Cinema

W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk

bell hooks, All About Love

Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

Radical Emprints: Fight With the Tools that are Uniquely Yours

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

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