Cancelled

Why do so many women get a hard time when they speak up? It’s like: How dare you do anything but sing, dance, play … entertain me? How dare you have an opinion? It doesn’t matter if you’re the darlin...

21 Feb 202220min

Today’s topic has had many tweets, think pieces, and much mainstream media coverage devoted to it. And while the subject matter was initially reported as yet another example of salacious {tabloid fodd...

14 Feb 202217min

A controversy-courting YouTube chat show, a twitter clapback, and a verbal gymnastic session with a move so bold, so bewilderingly audacious, that it’d probably leave Simone Biles a bit rattled. This ...

7 Feb 202217min

Art and controversy go hand in hand. Many celebrated artists tiptoe on the edge of taste, decency and political correctness as a means to explore emotions and boundaries. In the 1980's underground que...

31 Jan 202217min

Think public takedowns or mass moral outrage, and social media is often the arena. A tweet, the weapon of choice. But people have been called out, vilified and openly flogged since … well … forever. A...

24 Jan 202225min

Summer 2020 was peak cancellation season and no one was safe. The murder of George Floyd forced people, who had otherwise had the privilege of ignoring racism’s pervasiveness, to begin to see it for w...

17 Jan 202217min

Retweets are not endorsements. That’s what people say. It’s become a universal disclaimer in our online discourse – used to dodge criticism for, say, retweeting Trump during his Twitter heyday. Read: ...

10 Jan 202218min

If I could only choose one word – a polite, podcast-friendly word – to sum up the past 18 months, it’d be... ‘weird’. A global pandemic that had people fighting over toilet roll and governments tellin...

6 Des 202116min