Episodios

  • Episode 31: Everything is Embarrassing

    Episode 31: Everything is Embarrassing
    Nov 6 2025

    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.


    We need your questions!! Send them to us at https://www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts


    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

    You 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!

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    1 h y 7 m
  • Episode 30: Down with Ambiguity

    Episode 30: Down with Ambiguity
    Oct 20 2025
    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 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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    1 h y 4 m
  • Episode 29: Let the People who Love You Love You

    Episode 29: Let the People who Love You Love You
    Oct 3 2025
    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 add some thoughts to our Your Party-related answer from last episode, in light of the latest news, and then we address a question about how to accept and give care. How to balance our own needs and wants, give and take, when the very means of survival are privatized?Stuff We Talk About:Archie Woodrow, "Your Party’s Messy Public Breakdown Shows It Has Big Questions to Answer"Sarah: “You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform LaborRodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical Nor HorizontalKeir Milbun, Bertie Russell, Kai Heron, Radical AbundanceHelen Hester and Nick Srnicek, After WorkMariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, From “Me Too” to “All of Us”: Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without PrisonsAxel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old IdeaPremilla Nadasen, Care: the Highest Stage of CapitalismMelinda Cooper on The Dig, CounterrevolutionDavid Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 YearsWe 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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    1 h y 3 m
  • Episode 28: Hope is Social

    Episode 28: Hope is Social
    Sep 17 2025
    Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. In response to a question about the new left party formation in Britain, we think about hope, and organizing, and what kinds of movements we'll need to make it through this bleak political time.Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical Nor HorizontalLeanne Mohamad, “How I came so close to beating Wes Streeting”Nicholas Beuret, Or Something WorseMark Fisher, Ghosts Of My LifeKeir Milburn, Generation LeftAjay Chaudhary, The Exhausted of the EarthJane McAlevey, Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell)Staceyann Chin performs The Low Road by Marge PiercyDavid Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 YearsRichard Seymour, “Baseline Communism”Ad Astra Harm Reduction CoalitionSarah, A Safe and Welcoming HomeWe 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 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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    1 h y 2 m
  • Episode 27: Giving Up the Ghost

    Episode 27: Giving Up the Ghost
    Sep 4 2025

    Welcome 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 exciting personal updates for our listeners. But don't fret, we're also back to answering your questions. This week we tackle yet another dispiriting experience with the labor movement, and how to be for labor when it's shooting you in the foot. And then we consider ghosting: what it is, what it means, what to do when a friend does it to you.


    Stuff We Talk About:

    A Southern Panther

    Work Won’t Love You Back

    Jane McAlevey, Raising Expectations and Raising Hell

    Nicole Olive “Nonprofit Boss”

    Merriam-Webster on the history of the term “ghosting”


    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.


    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!

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    1 h y 15 m
  • August break

    August break
    Aug 2 2025

    Hello Heart Reacts listeners!


    Sarah here, just wanted to touch base that along with much of Europe we’ll be taking August off from the podcast to deal with some life changes–good ones, we hope, that you’ll hear more about soon!--and to have a bit of a break and give you a chance to send in all your questions about chaotic polyamory, difficult parents-in-law, bad bosses, political splits, and everything in between.


    As always, thank you to those of you who support us on Patreon and have sent in questions thus far. You can send those to askmeanything.cc/heartreacts. We’ll be back soon, and remember, pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the feels.

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  • Episode 26: Don't Ask Don't Tell

    Episode 26: Don't Ask Don't Tell
    Jul 24 2025

    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 discuss two very different versions of "don't ask don't tell" relationship policies, as we consider the ethics of disclosure in nonmonogamous relationships (that's right, the Poly Chronicles continue) and how upset to get about bad behavior from a hookup. With an update from a former questioner!


    Stuff We Discuss:


    Episode 11: The Ways We Ought To Live

    Angela Willey, Undoing Monogamy

    Jo Freeman, The Tyranny of Structurelessness

    Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

    Bad Gays Podcast, Episode One: Ernst Röhm


    We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.


    Buy Craig's Book: Cyberboss

    Buy Sarah's Book: From the Ashes


    You 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!


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    1 h y 5 m
  • Episode 25: Who Cares for the Workers?

    Episode 25: Who Cares for the Workers?
    Jul 10 2025
    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 one for the labor process nerds! We answer a question about the ethics of using, and working in, so-called "AI". And then we consider what it means to help your own home health care worker join a union. (Apologies for the construction noises this week, friends, but such is life in a society.)Stuff We Discuss:Distributed AI Research InstituteSarah: What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself (Interview with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender, Authors of The AI Con)The AI Backlash Keeps Growing StrongerBrian Merchant, Blood in the MachineGavin Mueller, Breaking Things at WorkCODE-CWAUnited Tech and Allied WorkersNo Tech for ApartheidSarah: Why Harris V. Quinn and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working WomenNational Domestic Workers AllianceHand in Hand: The Domestic Employers NetworkSEIU Home CareJennifer Klein and Eileen Boris, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare StateWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠This 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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    53 m