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The Heart

No: Questions

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Episode Four: Many listeners were left with lingering questions and thoughts after the first three episodes. What do I tell my kids? What if my no DOES mean yes? What role does alcohol play in consent? In this episode, some Heart producers and Samara Breger (our trusted sex educator) unpack some blind spots and larger themes around consent. [Trigger Warning]

Part of “No”, a mini-season.

Produced with the generous support of the IWMF.

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0:00.0

Hey Heart Listeners! If you're looking for a new podcast recommendation, I have to tell you

0:05.4

about the Kitchen Sisters present. They bring you sound rich stories of hidden

0:09.6

Kitchen's activist archivists, rogue librarians, girls, and the women they become.

0:15.6

Tales of soundhounds, artists, architects, filmmakers, environmentalists.

0:20.5

You'll get some things surprising in every episode. A proud member of the Radiotopia family,

0:25.6

the Kitchen Sisters present is available anywhere you find your podcasts and also at KitchenSisters.org.

0:55.6

You really have to listen to every episode of the season to get the full picture.

1:02.2

We've come so far. I've come so far. In the first episode, I realized that saying no

1:12.0

isn't always enough. In the second episode, I realized that being good at setting boundaries

1:17.7

would be something I'd have to practice my entire life. And in the third episode, I went looking

1:23.7

for answers from people who have perpetrated consent reaches, mostly cisgendered men,

1:31.5

mostly my friends. The series brought up a lot of strong emotions for everyone. Everyone on the

1:39.6

team, everyone who listened, people with all sorts of different opinions and experiences.

1:46.4

Hey Heart, hi the heart. Hi Caitlin. Hi my name is Nick. I'm Emily from Vancouver. Hi there.

1:53.0

My name is Catherine and I live in Oakland, California. This is Anna. I come from Tickia, the

1:58.4

most communist state. Hi my name is Sarah and I just listened to the most recent episode of the heart.

2:05.0

For a very long time in my life, I was an absolute fuckboy. I have a son. I have two little girls.

2:10.8

They're seven and ten. And so this is having me think a lot about the conversations.

2:15.7

I want to have with him as he grows up. He's only ten now.

2:19.3

When no does mean yes. I would say no. But I would mean yes.

2:31.0

How do we view ourselves as all-flod? Do you know everyone has the potential to be the

2:36.2

basic blow job guy like and also all good people? Like how does this stop?

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