Critical Thots

This week, we discuss all things dating apps. We explore whether they’ve ruined in-person romance and share our best and worst dating app stories.

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We’re back with a chaotic Q&A episode, answering all your questions about situationships, plugging your skills into a profession, talking about finance with your friends, and more.

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In this episode, we discuss our own personal experiences with moving across the other side of the world. We talk about keeping in contact with family and other loved ones, loneliness, not making assumptions off social media, and debate whether it's up to us to reach out or others to check in if we're okay.

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In the lead-up to Euphoria night, we discuss girl code. We ask what is girl code is, if guy code exists, if we ever "own" people, and if it’s ever okay to date your friends’ ex. Let us know your thoughts, thots!

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Off the back of RiRi’s pregnancy announcement, we of course must discuss babies. From feeling pressured to procreate as a woman to even finding a suitable partner to have children with, we share how we’re navigating the decision in today's world. Let us know know your thoughts, thots!

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In this episode, we talk about being busy (or the appearance of it), experiencing burnout, and growing up in the "girlboss" era. We ask if time affluence is accessible to everyone (it's not) and if focusing on toxic wellness is any better than focusing on work?

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For our first cross-continental episode, we have a juicy topic—cheating! We’re all getting cheated on and monogamy is a product of capitalism so we dissect it and discuss how to navigate it. We talk about emotional cheating, snooping, how to draw clear boundaries, keeping your peace, relationship anarchy, and whether or not sending a flame emoji on Instagram is infidelity.

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We start 2022 off with an episode about all things death and grief with our friend Yumi Carter. We discuss why grieving is so awkward and uncomfortable and Yumi shares her experience grieving a place and culture after visiting the shrinking village in Japan where she’s from. We also go into how to support friends in the midst of grief, and why we should all be talking more about our own mortality.

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For our final episode of the year, we discuss toxic glow-up culture and body politics. We speak to our own experience with beauty and health and what positive and achieveable goals we’re replacing unrealistic resolutions with all through 2022.

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For a special holiday episode, we’re joined with journalist Sara Radin, who covers culture and mental health for publications including The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vogue, Refinery29, Buzzfeed, MTV News, VICE, and more. We talk with Sara about how we’re all feeling at this stage of the pandemic and during the holiday season, how to have more open mental health conversations with your friends, how she’s navigated finding the right balance of medication, and why you should find a therapist while you’re still medium-well (and not waiting to the point of crisis).

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