Chris Duffy

They offered care that was physical food, a place to sleep, masks and hand sanitizer during COVID-19.

They offered life even when protesting a death.

We lack a word in English for this kind of life making like the missing middle voice.

And to me, those two quotes...

really capture so much of the beauty of this book and also the thread that I had never seen someone else draw between that intense personal suffering and the way that we can find a path forward together, that it isn't something you solve on your own, that it is actually something you solve in community.

Anyone who has been through grief and through suffering understands that one of the things that it does, and you say this explicitly, is that it just erodes your ability to take bullshit.

You have zero capacity for the way things are, for people saying, what's going on?

Nothing much.

You can't do that.

Sarah Jaffe, thank you so much for being on the show.

That is it for this episode of How to Be a Better Human.

Thank you so much to today's guest, Sarah Jaffe.

You can find more about her work, her writing, and all of her books at sarahljaffe.com.

That's S-A-R-A-H-L-J-A-F-F-E dot com.

I am your host, Chris Duffy, and you can find more from me, including my weekly newsletter and other projects at chrisduffycomedy.com.

How to Be a Better Human is put together by a team who I love working with and who I think are more mindful than most about finding life outside of work as well.

On the TED side, we've got Daniela Balarezo, Banban Chang, Michelle Quint, Chloe Shasha Brooks, Valentina Bohannini, Laini Latt, Tansika Sungmanivong, Antonia Le, and Joseph DeBrine.

This episode was fact-checked by Julia Dickerson and Mateus Salas, who in work and in life,

value the facts.

On the PRX side, they grieve the audio bites that could not be salvaged while moving forward into the crystal clear recordings of the future.