The Heart

By Mermaid Palace, Radiotopia & Kaitlin Prest

Sexuality

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The Heart is an audio art project about intimacy and humanity. A proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

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Axel: How to Remember

06.24.2021

“You don’t know what it means to be Black because you don’t know what it means to be one thing. Who is when you know you are a brother and a son, a lover and a friend. Sometimes you say ...

The Heart episodes:

06.24.2021 Axel: How to Remember “You don’t know what it means to be Black because you don’t know what it means to be one thing. Who is when you know you are a brother and a son, a lover and a friend. Sometimes you say ...
06.11.2021 Axel: Paradise A dreamlike exploration of depression in the underground. Inspired in part by a bruised and beautiful looking cloud at sunset, we follow Axel Kacoutié on a subway ride home. In response to Emily Dickinson's poem 'Hope is the thing with ...
05.27.2021 Axel: A Sound Poem Axel Kacoutié brings you into his mind and his heart through rich sonic universe building. In this audio journey, he conjures sensations: warmth, light, and the feeling of waking up after having a disturbing dream. This is the first of ...
02.11.2021 Water In Toronto’s downtown eastside, Moss Park’s encampment is home to a lot of people with deep ties to the neighbourhood. The site of the city’s first overdose prevention facility—a hard-won resource that started in an unsanctioned trailer—Moss Park’s residents are ...
12.30.2020 Hurricane Boyfriend This story by Mitra Kaboli tells of a little bit of 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 ...
12.16.2020 EMDR From audio artist James T Green ft. C’ne Rohlsen. “With this piece, I was trying to get down to the bottom of why I felt anxious in a world where it felt like I was losing control, either literally or ...
12.02.2020 e4e: stop living on video start searching for transformative pleasure. In conversations with trans viewers and makers of porn, Mara investigates porn as a healing portal for trans people seeking embodiment. This episode was written, sound designed & produced by Mara Lazer, edited by Nicole ...
11.18.2020 e4e: chasing purple Ari's fumbles with homemade dildos as a teen dyke riot grrrl leave a lasting impression that doesn’t evolve until years later, with an experience of embodied sex she’s never forgotten. This episode was written, sound designed & produced by Ari(el) ...
11.04.2020 One: not if, how Tarot cards, The Musician vs The Scientist and a crossroads at 39. Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir podcast by Michelle Parise. Listen to the whole series, from CBC Radio. This episode was produced by Michelle Parise and ...
10.21.2020 One: do travel romances ever really work out? In the years after coming out, Vinh-Paul Ha searches for good sex, real love, and an elusive feeling of belonging as a queer Asian man on a series of solo travels. This episode was produced by Nicole Kelly and hosted ...
10.07.2020 One: sometimes it's lonelier in relationships Kamala wants to fill the empty spaces of her loneliness. This episode was written by Kamala Puligandla, produced by Phoebe Unter, edited by Nicole Kelly and hosted by Kaitlin Prest. Kamala is the Editor-In-Chief at Autostraddle.com and her first novel, ...
09.30.2020 Voices 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. Subscribe to the series where ...
09.16.2020 Appearances Welcome to… Appearances, an audio mind trip into the fantasies and nightmares of Melanie Barzadeh and her quest for family connection, love and inner strength. It’s a new series written and directed by Sharon Mashihi. In this episode, host Kaitlin ...
09.02.2020 Rite of Passage An episode from Spark, a show about daring attempts to create masterpieces and the mysterious process of transforming trauma into art. Chiquita Paschal returns to the beginning — and end — of her dream to become an artist to find ...
08.12.2020 Neon Touch At an erotic play party called Neon Touch, two friends — Meesh & Mercury — feel sparks. This episode was produced by Nicole Kelly and hosted by Kaitlin Prest. Neon Touch is hosted by Meghan Gordon & Angela Penaredondo, who ...
08.05.2020 Coming This Fall A trailer for our Fall season. Beginning August 12 and airing every other Wednesday for the rest of the year. Featuring the work of Sharon Mashihi, Kamala Puligandla, Vinh-Paul Ha, Ari Mejia and Mara Lazer. Produced by Nicole Kelly & ...
07.29.2020 Swelter: A Steam When I have sex, I think of radio... Part 3 of a 3-part summer series. ⚠️ You won’t find these sweaty Audio Smut stories anywhere else on the internet or airwaves ⚠️ Part one was written & produced by Meg ...
07.15.2020 Swelter: A Scheme Gina Gold goes west in search of fame, freedom, and her first good lay. Part 2 of a 3-part summer series. This episode was produced by Ana Adlerstein in 2015, edited by Kaitlin Prest, and hosted by Phoebe Unter and ...
07.01.2020 Swelter: A Dream What would you sound like if no one ever told you that’s all a woman could be? Part 1 of a 3-part summer series. “The reallotment of material resources is going to be the only thing that will save us.” ...
06.17.2020 Race Traitor: betray white fathers Phoebe has an idea of a white race traitor: someone who makes personal sacrifices for the betterment of humanity. Someone whose actions halt the patterns of white supremacy. She goes looking for one and meets Stephanie Hofeller. Part 4 of ...
06.03.2020 Race Traitor: what makes a mom a white mom? 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. Part 3 of a 4 part ...
05.20.2020 Race Traitor: can we be friends? 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 4 part series. Produced by Phoebe Unter, edited by Sharon Mashihi and hosted by Kaitlin ...
05.06.2020 Race Traitor: who taught you to be white? Phoebe is surprised to learn that even she, an angry Jewish dyke, still participates in upholding white supremacy culture. Part 1 of a 4 part series. Produced by Phoebe Unter, edited by Sharon Mashihi and hosted by Kaitlin Prest.
04.22.2020 Every Happy Ending Is Normative So what’s the point of a crush? This episode was produced by Nicole Kelly, with anise cinquepalmi. anise is a poet teaching in Los Angeles. Find her writing workshop info on Instagram by following @bashfulhole.
04.08.2020 Mardi Gras Is a State of Mind What can a body do? This episode was produced by Mara Lazer & hosted by Kaitlin Prest.
03.25.2020 Divesting From People Pleasing: Affirmation In the final episode of the Divesting From People Pleasing season, NK talks with her friends & Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis about some of the things that surround her personal narrative. This episode was produced by Nicole Kelly & hosted by ...
03.11.2020 Asking For It Meet Goldie. The cycle begins, in episode 1 of Asking For It, a new fictional series from Mermaid Palace.
02.26.2020 Divesting From People Pleasing: Memory 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, edited by ...
02.12.2020 Divesting From People Pleasing: Power 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, and hosted by Kaitlin Prest.
01.29.2020 Divesting From People Pleasing: Threat 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 ...
01.15.2020 Lesbian Separatism Is Inevitable How NK & Phoebe fell in art love.
01.06.2020 We're Back After a long break, The Heart is starting up again. Since we left, the world has changed. And we’ve changed too. At the core of the new Heart are artists Nicole Kelly and Phoebe Unter. Phoebe and NK started making ...
10.29.2019 Mermaid Palace 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 Phoebe ...
12.04.2018 Love Me: To My Heart Our friends Cristal Duhaime and Mira Burt-Wintonick launched Season 3 of their amazing show LOVE ME. The story we are featuring from them is about a man who learned all about love while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Website: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/\ Twitter: ...
10.10.2018 It's Here: The Shadows 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.
08.29.2018 KP + CBC Present: The Shadows ~* Things are happening. *~ The Shadows, presented by Kaitlin Prest and CBC Podcasts, launches in late September. Here’s a sneak peek. Subscribe to The Shadows –> here.
12.20.2017 Dream Kaitlin has a dream, and The Heart says goodbye (for now). Listen on headphones.
12.08.2017 An Announcement In 2018, The Heart will be taking a break.
12.06.2017 Man Choubam (I Am Good) Sharon is a weirdo.
11.22.2017 God + The Gays Phoebe was a Jesus kid.
11.07.2017 Signature Research I still hear his voice. [Trigger Warning]
10.24.2017 Darqness Darqness: where techno, party, and, protest all meet in one beautiful, sweaty night.
10.11.2017 A Woman on the Road is Alone A hitchhiked trip to Vegas and women with agency doing whatever the F they want.
09.19.2017 Bodies: Goddess How Maria R Palacios became a woman.
09.05.2017 Bodies: Itch Cassie has an itch.
08.22.2017 Bodies: Meat Jonathan Zenti is fat.
08.09.2017 Bodies: It’s not me it’s you When penetrative sex is painful or impossible.
07.10.2017 People Who Need People A re-release of ‘Samara + Kelsey’ with a life / wife update.
06.21.2017 Doing Time 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 greatest love of ...
06.14.2017 No: Questions A processing party. [Trigger Warning]

Older episodes

The Heart

What's The Heart about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Heart episodes:

Axel: How to Remember

Axel: Paradise

Axel: A Sound Poem

Water

Hurricane Boyfriend

EMDR

e4e: stop living on video

e4e: chasing purple

One: not if, how

One: do travel romances ever really work out?

One: sometimes it's lonelier in relationships

Voices

Appearances

Rite of Passage

Neon Touch

Coming This Fall

Swelter: A Steam

Swelter: A Scheme

Swelter: A Dream

Race Traitor: betray white fathers

Race Traitor: what makes a mom a white mom?

Race Traitor: can we be friends?

Race Traitor: who taught you to be white?

Every Happy Ending Is Normative

Mardi Gras Is a State of Mind

Divesting From People Pleasing: Affirmation

Asking For It

Divesting From People Pleasing: Memory

Divesting From People Pleasing: Power

Divesting From People Pleasing: Threat

Lesbian Separatism Is Inevitable

We're Back

Mermaid Palace

Love Me: To My Heart

It's Here: The Shadows

KP + CBC Present: The Shadows

Dream

An Announcement

Man Choubam (I Am Good)

God + The Gays

Signature Research

Darqness

A Woman on the Road is Alone

Bodies: Goddess

Bodies: Itch

Bodies: Meat

Bodies: It’s not me it’s you

People Who Need People

Doing Time

No: Questions

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