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Part of what you pay for when you subscribe to Culture Study = community. And one thing that all of my favorite and most healthy and generative communities do for one another = give each other media suggestions. This week, I’ve been mainlining the new series adaptation of

If you want to talk about student loan cancellation, you have to talk about wealth

Back in the late 2000s, I had a Wordpress blog called Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style that I treated as a sort of release valve for all the thoughts and theories I had about celebrity and media that didn’t fit into my academic work. I loved writing that blog, which, not surprisingly, shares a lot of DNA with Culture Study. But the focus, like my academic work at the time, was much,

Ask a Divorced Person, Round One

A Culture Study Takeover with Tyler Burgese

A conversation about rabbits and composting and the opposite of self-reliance with Ifeoma Ozoma

I’m flying home from a week cycling through Slovenia and Istria (in Northern Croatia), featuring some of the most beautiful countryside I’ve ever seen. That picture up there is at Lake Bled, in the very heart of Slovenia, which truly must be seen to be believed. (Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is also now one of my favorite European cities — but I’m told I’m not supposed to tell anyone about it, oops). Cycling all day is a great way to think about nothing at all save the task at hand, and I’m grateful for the chance to let my mind rest and ready itself for an intense few weeks and months of work to come. (And if you missed any of Tyler Burgese’s takeover week on queering sex ed,

An interview with Linda Flanagan

A conversation with Al Vernacchio

Remembering what it felt like when it felt the worst