Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.

Sorry once again for the delay--the world happened. Thank you for bearing with us!

This week we talk about the family and its discontents: about a messy mother-in-law relationship, and about what happens when someone bails on the nuclear family–and replaces it with a new one.

Stuff We Talk About:

Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution

Melinda Cooper, Family Values

Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family

M.E. O’Brien, Family Abolition

Alva Gotby, They Call It Love

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Socialism conference, Lenin and the Politics of Rehearsal

Aaron Benanav, Automation and the Future of Work

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

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