A seven-part Netflix docuseries on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders called America’s Sweethearts? Oh my god, WHAT a rich text. The... more

How are romance writers — and the recent romance boom — chipping away at the norms of Big Publishing? Does self-publishing... more

J.Lo is, as we say in the Culture Study universe, a rich text. There is so much history, so many... more

Why do jeans make us FEEL THINGS? I mean, I have a lot of feelings about the “going out top,”... more

Most people I know think the monarchy — any monarchy — is pretty ridiculous. And yet: most people I know also know... more

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After our GREAT discussion of A Court of Roses and Thorns we realized we wanted to talk a lot more... more

Spoiler: No, millennials are not the most nostalgic generation — we’re just in a deeply nostalgic moment in our lives, reckoning... more

The very first episode of this pod was on how clothes got so shitty — and it prompted a whole... more

I spent years of my life studying celebrity images and what makes them meaningful to us. A celebrity’s actions or... more