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Underneath they're all lovable
The sun pours down incessantly, beating us down with the light of love. It does hide itself from time to time, it seems to leave us seasonally, and yet the light is always there.
Shuli Branson
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 28 - Jaime Grant on What We Can Do Intimately With Each Other
In this episode, Caroline and I talk to the wonderful Dr. Jaime M. Grant, Sex and Intimacy Coach, Researcher, Writer, and longtime Activist. She has recently published Kink for Dummies, after her previous contribution to the series, Polyamory for Dummies.
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The Breakup Theory Episode 27 -- A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos: Disintegrating Linear Timelines at the NY Art Bookfair
When Simon(e) van Saarloos invited me to be in conversation with them at the NY Artbook Fair surrounding their recently published Against Ageism, I was honored and excited. We had already been discussing recording a conversation, so it was serendipitous that this event came along.
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dither
a trifle
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The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open
For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has caused them to become disenchanted . . . It has gotten really bad for them.
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Maybe everyone thinks New York belongs to someone else but feels it belongs to them.
The shark doesn’t care as it sinks its teeth into your leg. It doesn’t even want to eat you.
translation
an excerpt from Florent Gabarron-Garcia, A People’s History Of Psychoanalysis, trans. Shuli Branson (Pluto Press, 2025)
We are sharing the introduction from the recently published A People’s History of Psychoanalysis by Florent Gabarron-Garcia (Pluto Press, 2025) translated by Shuli. The book sketches a path, from Freud to the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (Socialist Patient’s Collective) in West Germany, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis has a rich history
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Some Epigrams Against Life
Each of us believes our visions are good and right and with enough reason will be accepted generally.
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 25 - Practices that do the Unchoosing
In this episode, I speak with two beautiful trans writers, artists, thinkers, Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, who recently published Trans Femme Futures with Pluto Books.
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The Breakup Theory Episode 24 - Putting the Ghosts In Their Graves (a letter episode with Caroline)
The Breakup Theory Episode 24 - Putting the Ghosts in Their Graves0:00/2822.4213331× In this episode, Caroline and I respond to a letter from a listener who is trying to navigate a tricky relationship. It is a relationship with a lot of fuzziness, moving from romantic and sexual
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On Manarchists
Dear CAW, What’s going on with these manarchists? It’s 2025, have we not gotten past the tedious takeovers, the pointless pontification, the theoretical throwdowns, the fuckboy fuckery, the unaccountable accountability, the righteous reversals, the useless utopias, the know-it-all nay-saying, the abiding abuse, and the lamentable lack of insight?
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Continued Breakup Files: Illness and Revolution
In our impatience to abolish everything, we don’t open up avenues of conspiracy that use what is to do what is not yet.