What It's Really Like to Run a Romance Bookstore
This is a dream come true of an episode: we got the owners of The Ripped Bodice to talk to us about all the ins and outs of running a romance-only bookstore. We talk about everything from the genesis ...
11 Sep 202454min
Cooking in the Age of Infinite Recipes
This episode is the Culture Study Podcast’s version of a Just Trust Me. It’s difficult to describe exactly WHY it’s so good, just that after we finished recording (with Lilah Raptopoulos, host of the ...
4 Sep 20241h
The Complicated Future of Reality TV
We’re more than twenty years into the current reality boom — and things are getting complicated. What are the unspoken and spoken ethics of signing up to become a reality star? What resources (about h...
28 Aug 202453min
An Incredibly Well-Timed Ben Affleck Episode
Jennifer Romolini is one of my favorite thinkers about ambition, and workism, and the stories we tell ourselves about what we must endure in order to find a modicum of security and pride — and she als...
21 Aug 202441min
Explaining the Best and Weirdest TikTok Trends
TikTok is filled with wonders. It’s SO weird. It can make you feel like the algorithm is telling you something you don’t even realize about yourself….or it serve you a whole bunch of cyst draining vid...
14 Aug 202448min
A Former Trad Wife on What It Actually Takes To Leave
Trad Wife Discourse is everywhere. It’s been everywhere for a while, in part because it offers a twisted fantasy of ease to women who are attempting to negotiate life, and family, and career in a soci...
7 Aug 202455min
How HGTV Shapes and Refines Our Taste
How do the politics of taste and HGTV shows intersect? Why do we watch, why do we feel the way we do when we watch, and how is taste shaped in the process of watching? When Jonathan Menjivar, host of ...
31 Jul 202454min
The Beautiful Cult of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
A seven-part Netflix docuseries on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders called America’s Sweethearts? Oh my god, WHAT a rich text. The uniform, the dances, the body norms, the coded language, the particula...
24 Jul 202456min
