SUMMER SERIES | A much needed review: NO. [The Heart]
A coming of age story following a girl turning into a teenager turning into a young woman turning into a grown woman and struggling with one very tiny but very important word.
KP finds herself AT AGE 37 crying in a hotel room in Italy shaking her fists and yelling to the sky words she vowed...no. Believed...no. SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER than to hope she had said for the last time an entire decade earlier.
“I thought I was done with this shit. I thought I knew better than this shit. That this was only something that happened in university when we’re still learning how to do sex and be good people”. --- KP age 27
Ten years ago she said these words in her brooklyn bedroom after a hookup gone wrong. They got written into a scene of a podcast series that became the most popular series she had ever made. Only a few months after “NO” dropped on the Heart in spring 2017, a digital revolution exploded online and beyond throughout the summer. This revolution had thousands of women gathering the courage to share stories of sexual assault, rape and coercion online, and thousands of women reading these stories and saying SHIT.
Me too.
In 2024 KP is ripping bedsheets off of the bed in an Italian hotel room, crying and revisiting memories of all the times the word NO meant nothing to someone she let get close. There were too many. And there would be more.
Bi-weekly episodes through the summer of 2025, we listen to the famous NO series and ask ourselves why it feels so current. Invite your friends over and consider the topic of consent alongside the people in the series: KP’s friends, her mother and her mother’s friends, old people and young people, men, queers, women, her dad and ONE friend who ruined their friendship and made an ass of himself in an interview where he couldn’t admit he was wrong.
We are fundraising for a brand new episode, where KP shares what happened between her and her friend Jay after the series went out into the world, and Jay was yelled at online by strangers and excommunicated from their friend group who all listened to the show.
She will share audience reflections on how the issue of consent, gender and feminism have evoleved since 2017 and discuss where things are at both for her personally and how it seems to be going in the world at large.
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GREAT LOVE
The Gaza Monologues
"It's kind of corny, but I think about this quote from Che Guevarra: ‘the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of great love’." – Aliya Pabani.
The Gaza Monologues by ASHTAR THEATRE (Ramallah) adapted by The Heart. Friends and friends of friends from Palestine and beyond read the famed monologues; layered with recordings, conversations, and creations from today.
“We relate with every single word in this monologue. [But] this is bigger than any war we’ve lived before.” --- Tarneem Jaber.
Music: Marj Ibn Amer - Muqata’a
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