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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.  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.

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! 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 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 Sex Lynne Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities and Changing Men Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Practitioners Just Practice collaborative Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party Jane McAlevey, Raising Expectations and Raising Hell The dearly departed Big Mood, Little Mood podcast Sarah: The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way for LA's Teachers' Strike Diane 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: 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 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 Labor Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal Keir Milbun, Bertie Russell, Kai Heron, Radical Abundance Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, After Work Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, From “Me Too” to “All of Us”: Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without Prisons Axel Honneth, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea Premilla Nadasen, Care: the Highest Stage of Capitalism Melinda Cooper on The Dig, Counterrevolution David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years 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.  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 Horizontal Leanne Mohamad, “How I came so close to beating Wes Streeting” Nicholas Beuret, Or Something Worse Mark Fisher, Ghosts Of My Life Keir Milburn, Generation Left Ajay Chaudhary, The Exhausted of the Earth Jane McAlevey, Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell) Staceyann Chin performs The Low Road by Marge Piercy David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years Richard Seymour, “Baseline Communism” Ad Astra Harm Reduction Coalition Sarah, A Safe and Welcoming Home 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 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 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 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! 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 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 Institute Sarah: 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 Stronger Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work CODE-CWA United Tech and Allied Workers No Tech for Apartheid Sarah: Why Harris V. Quinn and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women National Domestic Workers Alliance Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network SEIU Home Care Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State 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! 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 taking a dive into the concept of "social deskilling." What does deskilling mean, and how does it affect our personal lives? (Thanks to Kelly Hayes of the Movement Memos podcast for the memorable phrasing.) And then we tackle yet another housing-crisis-related question: how scummy is too scummy a landlord? Stuff We Talk About: Movement Memos: We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference with Mariame Kaba Craig: Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work Sarah: America's Massive Retail Workforce is Tired of Being Ignored Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User Sarah: The Cost to Connect 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! 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 a little about the rebellion against immigration policing in Los Angeles and why big tech is a target, and then we answer a question about how to stop a friend from becoming a notorious "nice guy." Stuff We Talk About: Brian Merchant, "The Weaponization of Waymo" C.M. Lewis, "Los Angeles is Now the Country's Leading Union Town" Rivkah Brown, "Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone" Veena Dubal Brandy Jensen, "I Wish My Single Life Was Enough For Me" Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex Esther Perel, How's Work Season 1 Episode 7 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! 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.  On this week's show we think about the collapse of late capitalism getting collapse-ier, and attempt to advise two listeners about feeling prioritized in relationships. The first has a question about a friendship breakup, and the second brings us back to our favorite subject: polyamory. Plus, we have an update from last episode's question-asker about kids on strike! Stuff We Talk About: Sarah, Donald Trump's Disastrous Scott Walker Moment Natasha Lennard, “The Uses and Abuses of Politics for Sex” Becca Rothfeld, All Things Are Too Small Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again From Boundaries to Attachment: The Uses and Abuses of Pop Psychology feat. Lily Scherlis 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.