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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!! Thanks again for bearing with us as the school year got off the ground. We have a little chat about education, its value, and give a shout-out to the student uprising in France and our friends on strike at the universities in England and Scotland. (Support links below!) And then we answer a question about when and how to talk about your romantic relationships in organizing spaces, and wonder whether heterosexuality going into the closet is a move in the right direction. Stuff We Talk About: Strike support for Goldsmiths--19 weeks of industrial action, they could really use your donations. Episode 30: Down with Ambiguity Craig, Cyberboss Jane McAlevey's Organizing for Power program continues. Lily Meyer, The End of Romance Dean Spade, Love in a F**ked Up World Unruly Subjects Live with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olufemi Taiwo Roe was Never Enough Anyway (on "privacy") Jodi Dean, Comrade Jodi Dean, Solidarity of Strangers 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  This month is pretty hectic for both of us, and so we're only putting out one episode for September. We appreciate you bearing with us! This week, we're talking about the lack of social safety net, particularly for mental health, and how it's really hard to fill in for the lack of a functioning society when you're just one human who cares. And also, we humbly beg people to stop branding perfectly normal forms of social interaction with cutesy little names. Stuff We Talk About: LinkedIn News, Soft socialising is on the rise Emily Kenway, What if older people refuse care outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform Emily’s book, Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 another question about men! More specifically, we have a question about getting hard, staying hard, and why it's so hard to do sometimes. (Yes, this means this is a more explicit episode than usual, because we're talking about the mechanics of sex. We should also note that neither of us are doctors, sex therapists, or in any way medically qualified, but we do link below to some resources from friend of the show Justin Hancock, who is a professional sex educator, so read what he has to say and listen to us for the giggles. Stuff We Talk About: Menswear and the World System with Derek Guy  Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud If you must read Lacan on the phallus, it’s here (PDF). Gone Medieval: Medieval Sex Work and Brothels Gramsci, Americanism and Fordism Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi, Gendered Labor and Clitoridean Revolt BISH: The Hard On BISH: What Can I Do When They Lose Their Hard On BISH: Dick Pills 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 talking about men, and how to lessen the weight of the burdens of masculinity. First, we chat about the men of the World Cup and why they give us hope for masculinity, and then we advise a letter writer who wants to look--and feel--sexy but isn't sure how. Thanks for putting up with our slightly less regular schedule of late! We appreciate you and also we want your questions! We're down to the bottom of our mailbag so we need more in order to keep advising you: ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠. Stuff We Talk About: Bellingham and Haaland The World Cup Has Given Us A Win We Didn’t Expect – For Modern Masculinity Why many Black Americans were rooting for Argentina to lose the World Cup Pushing Protein Sita Balani, Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race Sarah: Heterosexuality During Wartime US military to start screening for testosterone deficiency, Hegseth says Confessions Of A Semi-Professional D**k Pic Critic 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 talking about why it's so hard to leave a bad relationship, reminiscing about our best (and worst) jobs, and musing on why our society doesn't value service sector work the way it does manufacturing. With bonus World Cup geopolitics (this was recorded before the US president got involved in the officiating, sorry)! Stuff We Talk About: Just Break Up: Asking Too Much or Asking the Wrong Person Madeline Lane-McKinley Solidarity with Children Sarah, The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized Emma Goldman, Living My Life Aaron Benanav, Automation and the Future of Work Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family Polly Smythe at London Centric Polly Smythe, How Covid Turned Cashiers Into Carers Nicholas Beuret, “Anyone but Miliband”? Why do unions hate net zero? 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 talk about the tendency to treat other people as "NPCs" and why looking for patterns is maybe not always the best way to understand our love lives. And then we tackle a question about how to convince your loved ones to go for communal living. Stuff We Talk About: ACFM Weird Britain “Men make history, but not under circumstances of their choosing…” James Muldoon, Love Machines Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different Kristen Ghodsee, Everyday Utopias Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek, After Work 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  Hello! This week we have something a little bit different which is a special crossover LIVE episode that Sarah recorded in Bristol with the lovely Isaac Kneebone Hopkins and Priyanka Raval of the Bristol Cable’s People Just Do Something podcast. The Bristol Cable is an independent cooperative paper and you should definitely support it! We talked about how Sarah got into journalism and why, and then we answered audience advice questions. It was great fun, and made us think we should do a Heart Reacts live someday…let us know if you’d like to attend such a thing. Anyway, hope you enjoy. There’s links to the Bristol Cable in our show notes.  The Bristol Cable People Just Do Something Podcast 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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! 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 Working Labor Rising: the Past and Future of Working People in America Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex Dougie McLain, Caledonia Sarah: From the Ashes 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome 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 enforcers Dolores Huerta’s civil rights legacy was inextricably linked with Cesar Chavez. Then she accused him of abuse Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years Harold Meyerson: Cesar Falls Trade Union Accused of Sitting on Report Into ‘Toxic’ Culture 700,000 Female Farmworkers Say They Stand With Hollywood Actors Against Sexual Assault James 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: 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 101 Disabled People and Care Workers Must Build Common Cause in the Fight for Better Conditions by Jamie Hale Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin, Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era Erik Loomis, Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests Les Leopold, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi Death Panel Podcast 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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, Tonya Red Army Miracle Craig: No Crying Shame A.S. Hamrah on Tech Won't Save Us 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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.

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, 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/heartreacts Also, 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 Question Michael Hardt “Red Love”  Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Sick and Tired Heat at 30: Michael Mann’s electric crime thriller is a film of fire and sadness Kelly Hayes, Read This When Things Fall Apart Marita 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 19 Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater’s brief encounter defies romantic convention ‘Black Bag’ Is a Great Spy Thriller — and an Even Better Marriage Drama 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome 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 weirder Conversation on Workplace Trust with Sarah Mosseri Sarah: Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on The AI Con James Muldoon, Love Machines The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it Iron Ladies film Against The Grain: Archiving anarcho-punk Logic(s) Magazine Issue 23: Land (with Craig's article!) Jules Joanne Gleeson: This Infamous Proposal Sarah: Family Planning (review essay) Engels, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" Madeline Lane-McKinley, Solidarity with Children Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh, The Anti-Social Family Angela Davis: Women and Capitalism:Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation David Collinson and Stephen Ackroyd, “Resistance, Misbehavior and Dissent” Dorinne K. Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome 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 comic Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Sarah, Worker Centers, Where Causes Cohere and Forge Power  Antonio Gramsci, “Americanism and Fordism” James W. Carey, Communication as Culture Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World The “Before” Trilogy 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.