Warning: this is an unbelievably straight episode. This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?

Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ… 

References:

• Alfie Bown, Dream Lovers: The Gamification of relationships

• Dr. Jacqueline Ristola || Queering the Metaverse

• Zoe Rasbash, Love in the age of platform capitalism

• Fope Ajanaku, Does radical vulnerability hinder us in the digital arena of love?

• The Singles Reports

• bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

• Shado Bookshelf: Love Beyond the Binary

• Clotilde de Maricourt et al, #MeToo or #MenToo? Expressions of Backlash and Masculinity Politics in the #MeToo Era

• Chris Haywood, Men, Masculinity and Contemporary Dating

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