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

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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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 some exciting news! And then we answer a question about how to handle inequality within your relationships, and tackle the issue of movement burnout, rest, and responsibility.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Vol 1

Liza Featherstone, "The Left Needs to Stop Falling for Absurd Sex Panics"

Sarah, "Worker Centers: Where Causes Cohere, and Forge Power" (Ellen Bravo quotation is here)

Sarah, "Emotions on Strike"

Daisy Rooks, "The Cowboy Mentality: Organizers and Occupational Commitment in the New Labor Movement"

Hannah Proctor, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Aaron Bastani, "Burn up not out; four suggested projects for UK activism," openDemocracy

Paula Davis, Beating Burnout at 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

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

Apologies for the delay this week, folks--we had some technical difficulties that made editing the recording a bit of a chore, so thanks for bearing with us.

This week, we're considering what to do when your family-critical friends start families of their own, and we dive back into the question of whether therapy can be radical, or even Marxist.

Stuff We Talk About:

Kristen Ghodsee, Everyday Utopias

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, After Work

Greta LaFleur at Los Angeles Review of Books, "Heterosexuality Without Women"

The Red Clinic

The Psychosocial Foundation

Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication

Ordinary Unhappiness Podcast, "On Hate and Aggression, Part 1"

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism

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 have a follow-up from a listener who shared a story of lost friendship, and then we consider the question of political breakups, maintaining friendships, and building the broader ecology of the Left.

Stuff We Talk About:

Alva Gotby, They Call It Love

Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal

Jodi Dean, Comrade

About "Platformism"

ACFM Podcast: Political Commitment

Sarah, "The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need"

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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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 wondering how--and whether--to try to convert your loved ones to anti-capitalism, and considering intergenerational friendships, loss, and loneliness. Thanks as always to our letter writers!

Stuff We Talk About:

Bull Durham

Mark Fisher: K-Punk and Capitalist Realism are the classics.

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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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 consider whether feminist theory--or porn--are useful tools in figuring out sexual ethics, and then we do some follow-up on the problem of dating while undocumented.

Stuff We Talk About:

Heather Berg, Porn Work

Lynne Segal, Straight Sex and Slow Motion

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Susan Faludi, Stiffed

The Good Robot podcast, with Maya Indira Ganesh,

Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

The Celluloid Ceiling

Sarah at Huck Magazine, Daddy Issues

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

Our music comes from “Casual Outrage” by New Orleans-based Basher, featured on their new album May Day, coming May 31, 2024 to Sinking City Records. For more about the band, visit⁠ byronasher.com/basher⁠.

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