Heart Reacts

Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
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Heart Reacts

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the feels.” We are HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for everyone trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We’re here to answer all of the questions about love, friendship, family, and even work that you might want to ask two people who have spent adulthood trying to apply their radical political analysis, more or less successfully, to their personal lives. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    Episode 9: Is Non-Monogamy Bourgeois?

    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 take on a question on "polyamory? in this economy?" We muse about hierarchies within and around relationship styles, love when the rent is too damn high, and what it means to think politically around sex and gender and the economy. And then we look at a question that Sarah's been getting asked a lot on book tour: how do you grieve when the thing you're grieving isn't over, or never ends? Stuff We Mention: Ordinary Unhappiness Podcast, featuring Sabrina Strings on The End of Love Natasha Lennard, The Uses and Abuses of Politics for Sex Chal Ravens, Monogamy is Cool, Actually Sarah, Beyond the Nuclear Family Cara Daggett, Petro-Masculinity and the Politics of Climate Refusal 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m

  2. OCT 3

    Episode 8: Advice is a Way we Love Each Other, with Brandy Jensen

    Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  We are back and we have a special guest with us! This week, in lieu of giving YOU advice, we asked one of our favorite advice-givers, Brandy Jensen, writer, editor, and "Ask a Fuck-Up" columnist, to talk to us about the whole business of advising strangers. We discuss being a romantic in 2024, how to tell when you're in love, the current media fascination with polyamory, and some of Emma Goldman's best takes. Stuff we mention in this episode: Brandy Jensen on Twitter and her Substack advice column. Brandy at the Yale Review: The Polycrisis Emma Goldman, Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love Toni Morrison, Jazz Before Sunset 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr

  3. AUG 22

    Episode 7: Obligations of Care

    Hello and 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 what we owe each other as friends, as partners, as family, and as therapists. (We're still not therapists.) Our first question asks how to maintain close friendships when you're becoming a parent, and the second wonders if someone is using therapy to justify bad behavior. Stuff we mention in this episode: Power of Self Care parody instagram Eva Kittay, Love's Labor Hannah Proctor, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years Jonah Hill and Sarah Brady's Relationship Sparks Conversation About How to Set Boundaries 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min

  4. AUG 8

    Episode 6: To What End?

    Hello and welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  On this episode, we dive into the world of work, and talk about when and how to unionize your workplace to manage your bad boss. And then we dig into the thorniest of questions (particularly in an election year): when and how to have conversations with relatives, friends, acquaintances, neighbors who hold political views you just can't countenance. When is it worth it, and when is it time to walk away? We have thoughts. Referenced in this episode: British Trades Union Congress Find a Union page. AFL-CIO Form a Union page. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    50 min

  5. JUL 25

    Episode 5: Bandwidth is a Bad Metaphor

    Hello and 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 tackle two questions about difficult conversations and decide that talking about "having the bandwidth" for friends, lovers, difficulties, and all the rest of the struggles of life is a lousy metaphor. We suggest some other ways to imagine ourselves in community. Mentioned in this episode: Lily Scherlis, Boundary Issues. Note that this article is mentioned in the episode as being published in the Guardian, but that was actually a reprint and it was originally from our friends at Parapraxis Magazine. Hannah Proctor, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat. And if you're getting this on the day it goes out, you can attend a live virtual event with Sarah discussing the book with Hannah. Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures 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 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    49 min

  6. JUL 10

    Episode 4: What Makes a Good Man?

    Hello and 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 answer a question about election fatigue, trauma, triggers, and movement work: how much is too much? And why is election-related journalism so godawful, anyway? And then we dive into an advice column perennial: what do you do when your sex drive doesn't match your partner's--but with a sidebar question of what it means, anyway, to be a "good man." Referenced in this week's episode: Lester Spence, The Counterpublic Papers, Vol 8 No. 20 Lynne Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    59 min

  7. JUN 27

    Episode 3: Lies Heterosexuality Tells Us

    Hello and 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 (mostly) on a regular schedule now! Thanks again for all of your kind words, sharing, reviews, support, and most of all your questions! This week, we're addressing a question about shame, kink, and finding love, and then diving into the thorny issues that arise when money is an issue in relationships: how do we deal with financial inequality? And how do we avoid letting the fact that the rent is too damn high push us onto the relationship escalator? 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. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min

  8. JUN 12

    Episode 2: The Metrics of a Good Life

    Hello and welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.  Thanks to everyone who checked out our pilot! We’re hoping to be out every two weeks from now on, and if you want to help us to do that, supporting us on Patreon is the way to go!  On this week’s episode we talk about the travails of platonic soul mates through major life changes, and we offer some advice to someone who’s been devastated by their partner’s self-discovery.  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. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min

  9. APR 19

    Pilot: A Wager on Shared Experience

    Hello and welcome to the pilot episode of HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We’re here to answer all of the questions about love, friendship, family, and even work that you might want to ask two people who have spent adulthood trying to apply their radical political analysis, more or less successfully, to their personal lives, with pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the feels. 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. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 11m
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“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the feels.” We are HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for everyone trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We’re here to answer all of the questions about love, friendship, family, and even work that you might want to ask two people who have spent adulthood trying to apply their radical political analysis, more or less successfully, to their personal lives. 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
  • Show Website
    Heart Reacts

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