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Heart Reacts

Heart Reacts

By: Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
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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.

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Episodes
  • Episode 46: Closeting the Straights

    Episode 46: Closeting the Straights
    12 Oct 2026
    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 AmbiguityCraig, CyberbossJane McAlevey's Organizing for Power program continues.Lily Meyer, The End of RomanceDean Spade, Love in a F**ked Up World Unruly Subjects Live with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olufemi TaiwoRoe was Never Enough Anyway (on "privacy")Jodi Dean, Comrade Jodi Dean, Solidarity of StrangersWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou 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.
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    57 min
  • Episode 45: Where's My Social Hammock?

    Episode 45: Where's My Social Hammock?
    2 Sep 2026

    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.
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    55 min
  • Episode 44: Hard Not to Talk About It

    Episode 44: Hard Not to Talk About It
    14 Aug 2026
    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 SexMaking Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudIf you must read Lacan on the phallus, it’s here (PDF).Gone Medieval: Medieval Sex Work and BrothelsGramsci, Americanism and FordismLeopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi, Gendered Labor and Clitoridean RevoltBISH: The Hard OnBISH: What Can I Do When They Lose Their Hard OnBISH: Dick PillsWe are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in London.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou 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.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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