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The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

145 episodes

Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about love.

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  1. Hurricane Boyfriend

    · 20 min

    Love found in an unlikely place: a natural disaster. As we cozy down and prepare to say goodbye to 2020, The Heart is here to wish you all some pandemic love for 2021. Learn about your ad choices:…

  2. Appearances

    · 42 min · S14 E4

    Melanie, her family (the voices in her head), and her ill-fated lover discuss potentially having a baby, and her first pregnancy 9 years ago. Appearances is an audio mindtrip by Sharon Mashihi and Mermaid Palace.…

  3. Race Traitor: what makes a mom a white mom?

    · 38 min

    All parents shape our identities. Phoebe’s affluent white parents made a particular set of choices to raise her in an all-white neighborhood with a sordid history. Phoebe investigates what she inherited as a result.…

  4. Race Traitor: can we be friends?

    · 32 min

    In a community with a strict “no new white friends” policy, Phoebe asks: how does my being white affect our relationship? Part 2 of a 3 part series. Produced by Phoebe Unter, edited by Sharon Mashihi and hosted by…

  5. Race Traitor: who taught you to be white?

    · 30 min

    Phoebe is surprised to learn that even she, an angry Jewish dyke, still participates in upholding white supremacy culture. Part 1 of a 3 part series. Produced by Phoebe Unter, edited by Sharon Mashihi and hosted by…

  6. Asking For It

    · 27 min · S14 E3 · Explicit

    Meet Goldie. The cycle begins, in episode 1 of Asking For It, a new fictional series from Mermaid Palace. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

  7. Divesting From People Pleasing: Memory

    · 30 min · Explicit

    When trauma is held in the individual and collective body, shame, grief, and rage are passed down for generations. Part 3 of a 3 part series. Divesting From People Pleasing is a mini series produced by Nicole Kelly,…

  8. Divesting From People Pleasing: Power

    · 38 min · Explicit

    The body has information. Part 2 of a 3 part series. Divesting From People Pleasing is a mini series produced by Nicole Kelly, edited by Chiquita Paschal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

  9. Divesting From People Pleasing: Threat

    · 30 min · Explicit

    As NK gets older, she gets smaller, she gets more and more quiet. But the self loathing voice in her head just gets louder. Part 1 of a 3 part series. Divesting From People Pleasing is a mini series produced by…

  10. Lesbian Separatism Is Inevitable

    · 27 min · Explicit

    How NK & Phoebe fell in art love. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

  11. Mermaid Palace

    · 15 min · S14 E2

    Named after the very bedroom within which many of the episodes of The Heart were made. In this ep you heard the singing of Sharon Mashihi and phone answering of Mooj Zadie. The manifesto writing of Nicole Kelly and…

  12. The Shadows

    · 22 min · S14 E1

    It’s here. Finally. All 6 episodes of The Shadows, presented by Kaitlin Prest and CBC Podcasts. Subscribe to The Shadows. Follow on Insta / Twitter at @theshadowscbc. You can find our FB group here. Learn about your…

  13. Dream

    · 29 min · S13 E6 · Explicit

    Kaitlin has a dream, and The Heart says goodbye (for now). Listen on headphones. Produced by Kaitlin Prest with help from Phoebe Wang. Thank you to all of the listeners who sent us your voices so KP could meet you on…

  14. An Announcement

    · 15 min · S13 E5 · Explicit

    In 2018, The Heart will be taking a break. ~* The Secret Link *~ Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

  15. Man Choubam (I Am Good)

    · 46 min · S13 E4 · Explicit

    Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. They confront their longstanding differences on a Persian self-help cruise. Learn about your ad choices:…

  16. God + The Gays

    · 38 min · S13 E3 · Explicit

    Growing up, Phoebe was a Jesus kid. In college, after Tinder-swiping her way to gayness, she comes out to Christians and hopes that they’ll accept her. In this episode, Phoebe goes on a mission to find out how people…

  17. Signature Research

    · 11 min · S13 E2 · Explicit

    There is a way that these narratives are supposed to go. But life isn’t simple and linear, it’s messy and loud, and everything keeps coming back again and again and again. This piece by Dylan Gauche won the Best…

  18. Darqness

    · 26 min · S13 E1

    Being a queer or trans person of color is hard anywhere, but can feel especially isolating if you’re living in Seattle, WA. A heavily fractured city that is undergoing massive gentrification. Darqness, an electronic…

  19. A Woman on the Road is Alone

    · 23 min · Explicit

    “A man on the road is solitary,” the writer Vanessa Veselka said. “A woman on the road is just alone.” This is a spotlight episode via Bitchface Podcast, about a hitchhiked trip to Vegas and women with agency doing…

  20. Bodies: Goddess

    · 23 min · S12 E4 · Explicit

    Maria is a poet and activist living in Houston, Texas who Mitra spent a few days with. Mitra got to meet some of Maria’s family, hung out with her pets and ate delicious food during her time with Maria. For Maria’s…

  21. Bodies: Itch

    · 20 min · S12 E3 · Explicit

    For years, Cassie has been plagued with an itch in her butt. The itch has travelled with her across the country, from one apartment to the next and transcended all of her major relationships. Cassie talks to past and…

  22. Bodies: Meat

    · 44 min · S12 E2 · Explicit

    Meatis an international podcast created on the surface of a person’s skin. It is a vision of the world from the point of view of human flesh. In people’s everyday life, there’s a wall between their ideas, dreams and…

  23. Bodies: It’s not me it’s you

    · 26 min · S12 E1 · Explicit

    Abigail wants to have penetrative sex but it’s not working. She is worried it’s her fault or at least her vagina’s fault. In her quest to find out why she cannot have penetrative sex, Abigail finds an essay called…

  24. People Who Need People

    · 26 min · Explicit

    Samara and Kelsey got hitched. We celebrate their marriage by re-releasing this episode (originally ‘Samara + Kelsey’) with a life / wife update. This episode was originally produced by Samara Breger with The Heart.…

  25. Doing Time

    · 15 min · Explicit

    This story is part of Radiotopia’s network-wide theme, Doing Time. In the early 2000’s, Kathleen reads through the personal ads of a magazine; on a whim, she writes to a man. Thus begins a relationship with the…

  26. No: Questions

    · 35 min · S11 E5

    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,…

  27. No: Answers

    · 43 min · S11 E4 · Explicit

    Episode Three: Kaitlin’s search for the answer to why coercion is so omnipresent lands her in one obvious place. Straight, cis-gendered men. In this episode, Kaitlin consults the men in her life that she trusts the…

  28. No: Inheritance

    · 36 min · S11 E3 · Explicit

    Episode Two: We catch up to Kaitlin while she is in her mid-twenties, waiting to fall in love. [Trigger Warning] Part of “No”, a mini season. Produced with the generous support of the IWMF. Learn about your ad…

  29. No: Advance

    · 19 min · S11 E2 · Explicit

    Episode One: We meet young Kaitlin as she navigates her first sexual experiences and the confusions of girlhood. [Trigger Warning] Part of “No”, a mini-season. Produced with the generous support of the IWMF. Learn…

  30. Trailer: No

    · 3:58 · S11 E1

    Our new season, starting May 9th. Kaitlin explores her sexual boundaries from youth to adulthood. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

  31. First Comes Marriage

    · 24 min

    Arranged marriages, although they sound scary to our Western ears, are considered extremely successful. Divorce rates are much lower. But those are statistics. What about being in love with the person that you married?…

  32. Pansy: Local Honey

    · 18 min · S10 E4 · Explicit

    Local Honey is a transfemme performance artist and musician living in New Orleans. Let her modulated voice and soft giggles croon you into her reality, where feminine sound is a weapon, a force, a celebration. Local…

  33. Pansy: The Beloved

    · 21 min · S10 E3 · Explicit

    Some say there are as many genders as there are people. And even more ways to creatively think about and claim them. In this story, Allen’s gender is complicated by a discovery he makes through meditation. Ep 3 of…

  34. Pansy: Ultraslut

    · 24 min · S10 E2 · Explicit

    Blake’s crushing. Hard. On his new best friend and favorite person: Korry. They spend every day together. They sleep in the same bed together. They plan their futures together. But there are signs that show that Korry…

  35. Pansy: Twirl

    · 23 min · S10 E1 · Explicit

    Todd once loved a woman. And she loved him back, but there was one thing that she just couldn’t get over, he twirls. This piece explores what it means to be effeminate when you’re a straight cis-dude. Kaitlin talks to…

  36. Mariya – Extended Cut

    · 45 min

    Featuring never-before-heard scenes and a post-award interview with Mariya Karimjee, this is an extended version of the award winning documentary, “Mariya.” A story about Mariya’s journey to figure out sex after FGM.…

  37. Love, Harry

    · 21 min

    Have you ever had a friend you thought you might be in love with? Have you ever slept in a bed beside this person, and wondered if your hand was grazing yours on purpose? Sharon receives emails from Harry, a…

  38. For Helen

    · 12 min

    This episode is a rerun of Mouthwash, in honor of the late Helen Breger and all of our grandparents’ salacious histories. Produced by Samara Breger with The Heart. Learn about your ad choices:…

  39. Diaries: My Everything, My Bear

    · 26 min · S9 E5

    In a suitcase full of books and papers there is a little notebook with a bear sitting alone in a hot air balloon. This journal is one of the only things Alex saved when they got rid of all their possessions and moved…

  40. Diaries: No Way Out

    · 24 min · S9 E3 · Explicit

    Ashley’s Livejournal features the angsty outpourings of a teenager from the early 2000s living in Southwest Florida. Just like many who came of age at the time, she flushed feelings out into the anonymous online…

  41. Diaries: The Big House

    · 21 min · S9 E2 · Explicit

    At the back of a closet, in a cardboard box, writer Tina Horn’s diaries gather dust. In the box there are girlhood diaries covered in collages of unicorns, dragons and David Duchovny. There are mixtapes with fat…

  42. Diaries: BFF

    · 28 min · S9 E1 · Explicit

    Writer Molly Osberg has carried her journals to every house she’s lived in since 2007. They’re decorated with pictures of her and her friends’ faces smooshed together, one friend in particular; Amelia. Molly and Amelia…

  43. The Understudy

    · 12 min

    Sophie Townsend has been a widow for a year and a half. She is too busy taking care of her children to entertain the idea of dating, until a man compliments her shoes. Voicing by Andy Leonard. Produced by CBC’s Love…

  44. Mr. Fix-it

    · 9:59

    A conversation between mother, Sophie Townsend and daughter, Anna about Mr. Fix-it, husband and father. Produced by Sophie Townsend and Marty Peralta for The Hearsay International Audio Festival. Learn about your ad…

  45. Silent Evidence: Salt in the Wound

    · 28 min · S8 E4 · Explicit

    Episode four of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse. In the final episode of the Silent Evidence mini-season, Kaitlin and Tennessee sit down and talk about what happened and didn’t happen in…

  46. Silent Evidence: Hands on the Wheel

    · 49 min · S8 E3 · Explicit

    Episode three of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse. In episode three, a court case unfolds. Tennessee decides to call the cops and tell them about what happened with Dr. Youseffi. Detective…

  47. Silent Evidence: Ten Foot Pole

    · 29 min · S8 E2 · Explicit

    Episode two of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse. In Episode two, Tennessee tries to reconcile with the abuse that she suffered. From performance art to installations to hair-brained…

  48. Silent Evidence: Not the Right Time

    · 27 min · S8 E1 · Explicit

    Episode one of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse. Tennessee Watson is a documentarian and artist who has been struggling to speak out about something that happened to her when she was a kid,…

  49. Mariya

    · 39 min · S7 E1 · Explicit

    Based on the 2015 essay from The Big Roundtable, writer Mariya Karimjee takes us on a journey from her childhood in Pakistan, to her adolescence in Texas, through college, all the way to where she is now, back in…

  50. Ghost: You

    · 13 min · S6 E5

    We end our series with a final ghost; it’s you. Every time I hear that song, you’re next to me. Whether I like it or not. In a cafe, in my bedroom, when I watch that stupid vampire series. The ache pains me but what’s…

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