Culture Club

Chances are, you’ve probably seen a Cheek Media Instagram post on your friend’s stories. With its signature pastel purple branding and whip-smart commentary, Cheek Media is one of Australia’s largest independent progressive media voices. 

Hannah Ferguson is the Co-Founder and CEO of the digital news platform founded in 2020. It now has over 80k followers with topics ranging from Australian politics to celebrity news. Hannah’s debut non-fiction, Bite Back, has also now hit the shelves. This insightful and smart book delivers much-needed conversations around politics and feminism. 

In this ep, we chat about what it's like building an independent media platform in the Instagram age, how left-leaning online spaces can end up being exclusionary, and why we need to have those tough conversations with our loved ones. 

 
Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.
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Hi pals!

There's a new celeb in our mix; Tube Girl is taking over our FYPs (and our hearts). We discuss her meteoric rise to fame and why she's the internet star we need. We also talk about the other Internet Moment of the week, the Roman Empire. 

Is it steeped in white supremacy? Or just a silly little meme? We reference a Vox article titled Why The Alt-Right Loves Ancient Rome by Sean Illing and a piece on the Roman Empire trend by Dani Maher for Harper's Bazaar Australia. 

Next, a TikTokker has gone viral on Twitter after sharing a conversation she overheard in a cafe. The style influencer posted a video sharing that that morning, as she was at brunch in London, she overheard a group of women bitching about a bride. The video received over two million views and sparked a debate on TikTok surveillance culture. 

In recommendations, Jas loved Shameless' In Conversation With Dolly Alderton episode while Maggie has put the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom in her top five movies ever. 

That's all for now! Chat soon. 

Jas & Mags xo 

Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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We’d like to give a content warning for rape, sexual assault, and harassment. Take care of yourself when listening to this ep and moving through the world. And, if you ever need it, call the Lifeline hotline on 13 11 14.

Chanel Contos became a household name in 2021 after beginning an Instagram poll asking for Australian girls and women’s stories of sexual assault. After an outpouring of responses, Chanel began Teach Us Consent, a movement that urged the government to include sexual consent education in the curriculum. 

Since then, Chanel has created huge change in the country and won the Young People’s Human Rights Medal. As of this week, Chanel is also an author. Her first book, Consent Laid Bare, explores sex, consent and the education we all should have had. 

You can buy Consent Laid Bare here (or from all good book retailers) and follow Chanel at @chanelc and @teachusconsent. 

Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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Hi pals! 

In today’s episode, we start with the hard launch of Kylothee (that’s Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet for the uninitiated). We reference this post by The Swaddle.

One of the internet’s biggest ‘couple goals’ couples has split dramatically this week. We discuss the fall-out of the Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner divorce including the alleged spin from Joe’s PR team. All hail our Queen of the North. 

Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, Guts, dropped last week. We chat about the rumoured feud between Olivia and Taylor Swift, our first impressions of the album, and discuss our thoughts on this interview with Laura Snapes from The Guardian.

The Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon, has been accused of creating a toxic workplace environment. We share the findings from Rolling Stone’s report by Krystie Lee Yandoli. 

In recommendations, Jas shares this piece in Vanity Fair titled Where Have All the Girlbosses Gone? It’s by Marisa Meltzer who is about to release a book on the story of Glossier titled Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier. 

Maggie recommends the film Theatre Camp starring Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Ayo Edebiri. 

​​Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz. This is a DM Podcast. 

Chat soon!

Jas & Mags xo

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22-year-old singer songwriter Maya Cumming, aka MAY-A, is one of Australia’s most exciting acts. From being featured on last year’s winning Triple J Hottest 100 song with Flume to performing on stage at Coachella, Maya’s moment has well and truly begun.

Today, we’re joined by the Sydney-based musician ahead of her new EP Analysis Paralysis dropping September 1. 

Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz. This is a DM Podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hi pals! 

In this ep, we cover our brush with celebrity as well as the relationships that are soft launching and crumbling. 

It seems that Venus Retrograde is (still) wreaking havoc on people’s relationships. We reference this Vogue US piece by Laura Pitcher titled, It’s Been A Summer Of Relationship Chaos. Was It Written In The Stars?

Next, there’s a rumour that Red, White and Royal Blue star Nicholas Galitzine is actually royalty. We break it down and reference this Teen Vogue article. 

What began as a radio segment in New Zealand has quickly turned into a viral movement. “Girl Math” is taking the internet and brunch conversations by storm. We chat about whether it’s actually empowering or if it’s another way to infantilise women. We read from this Refinery29 article titled, Is Girl Math Really Helping The Girls? By Elizabeth Gulino. We also share this reel from the Girls That Invest account. Follow them!

Over in Illinois, they’ve become the first state to regulate kid influencers.

The legislation "creates a private right of action for child influencers against their parents that featured them in videos and did not properly compensate them," according to the governor's website. 

We chat about why this is important and whether it’ll make it to Australia. 

For recommendations, Jas has been loving Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield, while Maggie has been listening to the Who Shat On The Floor Of Our Wedding? podcast. 

That’s all folks! Chat soon. Jas and Mags xo

India Raine is our wonderful producer and composer of our jingle and Katie Zhou created our fab cover art. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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Hi friends, 

We jump straight into it this week with a chat about our new obsession; the Matildas. Yes, it’s (still) the year of the girl and we’re loving it all. From the soccer team’s meteoric rise to all of the nominees of the VMA Artist Of The Year being women, we’re truly living for the girlhood renaissance. 

Maggie reads from her own Fashion Journal piece titled Because of the Matildas, I Care About Sport For The First Time In My Life. 

In other pop culture bites, this week it was announced that teen rapper and internet star Lil Tay and her brother had died. Only for it to be a hoax. We ask how the media was hoodwinked by a supposed hacker. And, rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years jail for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Good riddance. 

Riley Keough, actress who most recently starred as Daisy Jones In Daisy Jones and the Six, and granddaughter of Elvis Presley has been profiled in Vanity Fair. In the piece titled Riley Keough on Growing Up Presley, Losing Lisa Marie, and Inheriting Graceland by Britt Hennemuth, a bunch of revelations come to light. We discuss the weirder ones, including her family connection to the Kardashians. 

On the 2nd of August, the musician Lizzo, was named in a lawsuit that accused her of creating a hostile work environment. We go over the allegations and discuss how the performer is in hot water. We read from a Refinery29 article titled, The Allegations Against Lizzo Are Distressing — But Never An Excuse For Fatphobia by Banseka Kayembe.

We’ve got two books for you in recommendation land, Maggie loved The Power by Naomi Alderman while Jas is reading Sad Girl Novel by Pip Finkemeyer. During the discussion, Jas reads from an article for The Guardian titled The Authors Helping ‘Sad Girl Lit’ Grow Up by Sarah Manavis. 

That’s all folks! See you next week. 

India Raine is our wonderful producer and composer of our jingle and Katie Zhou created our fab cover art. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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You’ve most likely seen Jessica Nguyen’s home cooking recipes splashed across your social media feeds. With over 100,000 followers on Instagram, Jess is inspiring thousands to cook, drink and host. 

She’s created a cult favourite chilli oil, and has worked with some of Australia’s biggest brands. In this ep of Culture Club Chats, we’re joined by Jess to chat about the importance of culture and food, how she pivoted her career from beauty, and what the future of content creating looks like for her. 

Katie Zhou created our fab cover art and India Raine is our wonderful editor and composer of our jingle.

Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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Hello, friends! 

Exciting news from Culture Club this week as we’re recording in a studio! Huge. We’ve just signed to DM Podcasts and can’t wait to see where it goes. This means you may begin to hear a few ads from us but it means that after three years we’re actually earning money from the pod which is super exciting. 

In pop culture land we cover the breakups and wedding of the season. Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin wed in Hungary while Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello, Ariana Grande, and Dalton Gomez split. 

We debrief the Hollywood relationships and cover Ariana’s rumoured new beau. We reference ‘Love Is Dead’: Why Do We Care So Much About Celebrity Breakups? by Alicia Vrajlal for Refinery29 Australia. 

Next, it was Barbenheimer week! We discuss our thoughts on Barbie (and Jas’ on Oppenheimer) before getting into some of what the critics think. We hear from journalist Michael Sun who wrote a review in the ABC and reference a VICE US piece on whether Barbie is just branded content by Bianca Ferrari. 

In recommendation world, Jas shares Girly Culture Is Having A Moment – Can We Use It To Achieve Real Progress?, a Zee Feed article by Kitty Lloyd that taps into the girlhood zeitgeist at the moment, while Maggie recommends Elliot Page’s memoir, Pageboy. 

Chat soon! 

India Raine is our wonderful producer and composer of our jingle and Katie Zhou created our fab cover art. Email us at [email protected], find us on Instagram @cultureclubpod, or on our personal accounts @jasmineeskye and @yemagz.

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Hi besties! 

We’re back! We kick off this ep with a run-down of Maggie’s Euro trip and a brief overview of the stories we missed whilse she was away. Think: The Titan sub, Taylor Swift tickets and Collen Ballinger’s Toxic Gossip Train. Yikes.

In our next segment, we discuss why Hollywood boyfriends are acting up and exposing themselves. From Jonah Hill’s “boundaries” list to Keke Palmer’s partner outfit-shaming her, boyfriends are truly embarrassing at the moment. We break down the impacts of therapy speech when weaponised by toxic men. 

Next, we discuss an article that’s been doing the rounds online. Beware the ‘beige-fluencers’, cheerleaders for a life of no surprises by Sarah Manavis for The Guardian is a think piece on modern influencer culture and asks if romanticising the mundane is to live a boring life. 

We discuss our places in this lifestyle content, why Gen Z might be romanticising stability, and the internet’s response to the article. 

For recommendations, Maggie loved This Is Not A Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan and Jas loved The ‘lazy girl job’ trend romanticises the drudgery of work by Serena Smith for Dazed Mag. 

Chat soon!! Jas and Mags xo

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