2676
ICYMI: Chrissy Teigen Was Never the Good Guy
The Twitter queen’s spat with Courtney Stodden reveals that her friendly persona has always painted over a darker past.
25 min
2677
A Word: White Here, White Now
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo says the jury is still out on whether self-proclaimed white “allies” will fight racism, or even take it seriously.
21 min
2678
Spoiler Specials: Woman in the Window
Laura Miller and Matthew Dessem spoil the new Netflix thriller Woman in the Window.
50 min
2679
Culture Gabfest: Always3Gether
Slate Culture Gabfest on Girls5eva, vaccine personalities, and The Disciple.
55 min
2680
ICYMI: Sorry SNL, Gen Z Didn’t Invent That Slang
A recent sketch highlights how little people understand about the Black origins of internet language.
25 min
2681
Working: How Actor Blair Underwood Gets Inside ...
43 min
2682
ICYMI: So You’ve Been Banned on Twitter
A quest to recover an account. Plus, a galaxy-brain take on the word cheugy.
26 min
2683
A Word: A Black Nerd Star Rises in Hollywood
With roles in Amazon Prime’s The Underground Railroad, and the rom-com We Broke Up, actor William Jackson Harper is in a good place.
21 min
2684
ICYMI: The Price of Fan Fiction
Answering your questions about a regrettable TikTok meme (respectfully!) and the latest controversies around Archive of Our Own.
27 min
2685
Culture Gabfest: Hard Sci-Fi
58 min
2686
Working: Alison Bechdel’s Secrets to Superhuman...
49 min
2687
ICYMI: There’s a Chadwick Boseman NFT?
Plus, by popular demand, the return of High-Speed Downloads.
22 min
2688
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 2
Chris Molanphy's analysis of Taylor Swift's masterful country-to-pop crossover, continued.
49 min
2689
Spoiler Specials: Mortal Kombat
Karen Han and Matthew Dessem spoil the new action/fantasy movie Mortal Kombat.
41 min
2690
A Word: Get Ready, Playa One
“Storymodebae” on how Black women creatives are taking online video gaming to the next level.
19 min
2691
ICYMI: How Babby Is Formed
An elegy for Yahoo Answers, with the creator of one of the videos that helped make it famous.
28 min
2692
Culture Gabfest: Monster Boss
55 min
2693
Working: How Stuart Gibbs Writes Mysteries for ...
44 min
2694
ICYMI: “Body Positivity” Is Meaningless
What started as a movement advocating for fat acceptance has been diluted into a useless buzzword.
26 min
2695
Outward: Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.
69 min
2696
Culture Gabfest: Organized Crime
58 min
2697
ICYMI: What We Tok About When We Tok About Piss
A deep dive into PissTok—and what its popularity says about the memeification of kink.
24 min
2698
Working: How Jed Mercurio Makes Realistic TV Dr...
42 min
2699
ICYMI: Will You Accept This SponCon?
The war between social media and socially conservative values that’s at the heart of The Bachelor.
26 min
2700
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 1
At the turn of the ’10s, Taylor Swift pulled off a masterful country-to-pop crossover, ruling two genres at once.
50 min