Is everyone getting some but me??? Why the hookup culture moral panic is a tale as old as time and there's no 'normal' when it comes to sex and relationships. We review the Big 3 (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge) and debate the new ethical dilemmas brought about by dating apps and Call Her Daddy's brand of sex-positive feminism.

Required Reading:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0891243213493960?casa_token=7dX9fO2MD8MAAAAA:9Slhso7b_UHsXFWAcfjKr5DccmrQGWaO-LJF7lLwVhwJebnyYq4V6Z2RSOLzTUVDBa-m9QYIyC8

https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/casual-sex-everyone-is-doing-it

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00224499.2014.906031?casa_token=oH-jpsK9Hv4AAAAA:JaKhqloHNTsgEH6DRxULbHHqBbFToh6JNr41usv6ZevgO9YbVO6LqwqLvkwp5oOgMC_qXTTnrtU

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1037/a0027911?casa_token=zOje5UPjDXsAAAAA:M9umMIGvO7WVJv_M-EdtqtEL4CCBVCR2Y3HwK4n-JEbxxx_7ysEF38ia0zlRJ5EHahkkFOps6Q8

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/05/27/why-yesallwomen-is-worth-reading/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886919306798?casa_token=omW9TLTN7Y4AAAAA:ZsTLUrnmexsAQmPUvXItcoJ4z8UE5AH0iZ3lCaYk_gVX1HxbFjUIa2FFv4Y1sBugn72K8QJc9Q

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775719301104

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Prepare yourself for some serious House of Gucci slander, balanced out by some hearty Wordle adulation. Next, we ask why it seems like everyone is an actor-model-DJ-dog walker-sushi chef-pupeteer these days (and whether we should be polishing our marionette skills). Also @Rihanna, please drop the album sis...

Required Reading:

https://theoutline.com/post/8301/everyone-you-know-is-a-multi-hyphenate

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-gen-z-is-3x-more-likely-to-change-jobs-than-baby-boomers/

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Welcome to a new year of the same old tomfoolery! Join us as we gaze into the oracle to predict what 2022 will bring (spoiler alert: it's mainly natural disasters and the death of world leaders). Then hear why you don't need a new year's resolution - both because you're perfect just the way you are and because the #grind is a big ol' grift.

Required reading:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577708/full

https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/history-new-years-resolutions/

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/is-it-a-resolution-or-is-it-capitalism

https://www.aier.org/article/was-keynes-right-on-short-work-weeks/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/108107300406875?casa_token=wzJB9ZkHqGMAAAAA:xXoa6Z3FKyp1oPW5E4KNPriboqdkl3hE3jkV3E-kkl-GpGg6e3TFQudolC9bt4y0DP7LJaZSNtd37g

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Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Habari Gani to all who celebrate (and enjoy the public holidays to everyone else)! We draw on our years of Catholic guilt (Ava) and heathenry (Clea) to unpack how Christianity became hot again. We also share the religious education we have gained through TikTok, including 'Jesus is my Boyfriend', 'Christian Girl Autumn', and the truly disturbing phenomenon that is soaking. Enjoy!

Required Reading:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/17/joel-osteen-kenneth-copeland-10-televangelists-trouble/1471926001/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html

https://businessnewsroom.deakin.edu.au/articles/the-rise-and-rise-of-hillsong-and-what-other-australian-churches-should-learn-from-them#:~:text=The%20online%20popularity%20of%20the,its%20services%20every%20week%20globally.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/14/20804030/christian-girl-autumn-meme-hot-girl-summer-explained

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-02-15/hillsong-accused-of-misleading-indigneous-community/799184

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-converts-who-are-setting-fire-to-sacred-aboriginal/11527402

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CW: eating disorders, weight, dieting, surgery

This week we take the body positivity discussion existential and ask whether have to love our mortal flesh prisons to be happy. Will conditioning ourselves to love our stretch marks and cellulite really dismantle institutionalised fatphobia? We also get into why we are so invested in celebrity body transformations and why BBLs are straight-up terrifying. Plus, we give you some hot girl Christmas present recsfor when you don't want to participate in consumerism for ethical reasons and also because you're broke. 

Required Reading:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2w7dp3

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/25/no-more-mr-muscle-the-activists-raising-body-confidence-for-men

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a35047908/what-is-thin-privilege/

https://butterfly.org.au/unpacking-thin-privilege-weight-stigma/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144520303971?casa_token=ltQ7xkywfsQAAAAA:QxbIbghhVeQl5sZyeZY_rdbtKq8sbT9uzQqCEqpMfcMAcco92sgZOXgfTA_9MRBNFIz81sZXqvs

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144519303894?casa_token=jJT5QVHyxUgAAAAA:1MqW4yx9hH0wuQ9za9P4w-f50iYOJiUK4mU47YG9JZKZS2-AZSUyy3gKeElXW8m8WZz81sXIEL8

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/23/the-rise-of-the-body-neutrality-movement-if-youre-fat-you-dont-have-to-hate-yourself

https://www.allure.com/story/why-i-dont-use-body-neutrality

https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/35992/in-brazil-plastic-surgery-is-about-power-not-culture/

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Come with us as we venture into the field for a first person investigation into Australian multiculturalism (by way of a Conti Roll). We follow the thread of colonial history in an attempt to work out how the descendants of the original boat people decided that we must 'Stop The Boats' at all costs, and how Australia's beautiful, bustling ethnic food scene may be concealing some unexamined ideas about race and culture. Plus: Clea tells you why straight, white men are better than the rest of us and Ava introduces you to her best ami Rémy...

Required Reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/dining/re-store-review-australia.html

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674951914

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html

https://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2014/11/20/how-the-lebanese-became-white/

https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-always-considered-white-and-acceptable/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24878710

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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown

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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now

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*We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you some (semi-) breaking news that is breaking our hearts (in a good way tho)*

Please enjoy this bonus episode where we discuss the Sad Girl Superbowl™ (Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal finally confirming they are dating) and some of our other favourite indie darling couples! And Madagascar 3 for some reason.

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Join us today to find out all the ways the healthcare system sucks!!! (But also please take us to the hospital if we get COVID...) We delve into how medical research and practice grossly underserves POC, the LGBTQI+ community, and people with vaginas (and we say 'vagina' a lot). PLUS: the publicly funded research into how hot women with endometriosis are that reads like an Onion article and why the male pill will never take off :///

Required Reading:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985951/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racism-in-healthcare 

https://antar.org.au/racism-healthcare

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489978/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554585/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834572/

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This week we put our square eyes to good use and apply a philosophical lens to one of our all time favourite topics, The Simpsons. We deconstruct how Barthes and Bart are two sides of the same post-modern coin and how Baudrillard would have loved to see Marge walk the Balenciaga catwalk. Somehow we also manage to touch on Kony 2012, androgyny, and Kim K at the Met Gala - buckle in for a wild ride!

Required reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHESOq-Gkw

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264486622_From_Barthes_to_Bart_The_Simpsons_vs_Amadeus/link/5e8b5eea299bf1307983c8c7/download

https://www.independent.co.uk./arts-entertainment/books/features/don-t-have-a-vache-from-barthes-to-bart-134343.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/style/homer-simpson-fashion.html

https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/other/papers/bf.paper.pdf

https://www.grin.com/document/187317

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Today we live the hater lifestyle and talk about how Rancid Eddie managed to sabotage their 15 minutes of fame and why dubbed media is always* inferior. Next, we deep dive into burning Burberry, gatekeeping Hermès, and lining up to buy sneakers that you'll never wear. Plus: we know diamonds are a girl's best friend - but, in this age of conscious consumption, should they be?

*unless you have visual impairment or visual processing issues ofc

Required Reading:

https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/jnunes/intellcont/Brand%20Prominence%201-12-10-1.pdf

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17852294/fashion-brands-burning-merchandise-burberry-nike-h-and-m

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/

https://baghunter.com/pages/chanel-bag-values-research-study

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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown

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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now

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