Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 21st. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism. Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/9781541703490/?lens=bold-type-books Find Sarah’s new podcast here: www.patreon.com/HeartReacts Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	capitalism cannot abide grief or grief is an affmet of capitalism because capitalism is always
0:07.8	about growth and progress and forward motion and it just continues to as I don't have to explain
0:13.0	to anybody who listens to death panel feed us all into the meat grinder it literally cannot care if we
0:19.2	die and COVID really demonstrated that for so many people
0:23.1	who may have not been otherwise aware of that fact.
0:53.6	So, Welcome to the Death Panel. Patrons, thank you so much for supporting the show.
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1:11.5	local library and follow us at Death Panel underscore.
1:15.5	I'm Beatrice Suther Bolton and today I'm joined by our guest Sarah Jaffe.
1:19.8	Sarah is a writer and labor journalist.
1:21.8	She is the author of the books, Work Won't Love You Back in Necessary Trouble and also has a new
1:27.0	podcast project called Heart React
1:28.8	that's an advice show about navigating amongst collapse and late capitalism.
1:33.5	And she's here today to talk about her brand new book called From the Ashes, Grief and Revolution
1:38.6	in a World on Fire, which was just published by Bold Type Books.
1:42.8	Welcome to the death panel, Sarah.
1:44.2	It is so nice to finally have you on the show.
1:46.5	Hi, I'm so happy to be here.
1:49.0	Now, thank you so much for coming on today.
1:51.7	I'm so glad that we're talking about this book,
1:54.1	which in some ways is a bit of a departure from your previous books,
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