Content warning: This episode contains a very brief discussion of sexual assault from 27:14 - 27:21.

Happy 3rd Birthday to Sex. Love. Literature! 🎂 Since we started the show as English PhD candidates, the two of us have been through a lot. And now, over the last year, we’ve defended dissertations, donned our wizard robes, and officially both become doctors. To celebrate, this episode is all about us. Learn about our research, what projects we’re working on, and what we watch, read, and listen to when we’re not recording new episodes for y’all.

Want to join us in wishing a happy third birthday to SLL? Share your fave SLL episode with a friend who’s never listened before and tag them on our Instagram post (@SexLoveLit) to say hi! Thanks to all of you who’ve stuck around since the beginning and thanks to all of you who joined along the way 💛🥰

As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the WAG and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other industries/countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections– none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist.

Lit discussed this episode: Pokémon Go, Love You Seven Times, Lost You Forever, Love Between Fairy and Devil, Sex Education, The Queen's Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner, Lore Olympus, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, When I Arrived at the Castle, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson & Emily Carroll, Through the Woods, Good Hunting by Ken Liu, Love Death + Robots, Levar Burton Reads, Tower of God, God of High School, All of Us are Dead, Forever by Judy Blume, Hulu's The Great, See You in My 19th Life

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