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Tuesday Thread: What are you reading (not on the internet)? 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 …
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Links 'Til The Cows Come HomeI just spent the afternoon battling the neighbor’s climbing rose — which has been consumed by morning glory and blackberry, and is descending with dark intent into my yard. I did it with my mom. It was great, even though we got stickered multiple times. The tone of each of our…
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Inside the Complex "Social Lab" of PE Class An interview with Sherri Spelic
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Friday Thread: Kindness to Your Childhood Self For this Friday, I’m going with something that’s been rattling around my head since I wrote that piece about being an indoor cat who hated sport…
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Ask a Divorced Person My family’s visiting this week and as much as I know I don’t have to clean (and will certainly not clean to perfection) there’s still the compulsion to…
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Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?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 …
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The Solace, Despair, and Disinformation of Long Covid Internet Communities A conversation with communications scholar Katy Pearce
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Friday Thread: What happened to your hometown(s)? This Friday’s Thread comes from KR, who asks: How has the place you grew up changed (or not) since you were a kid? Or, if you don't know / don't…
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The Quiet Glory of Aging into Athleticism I wasn't ready to be an athlete, in any capacity, as a adolescent or young adult. I am now.
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Tuesday Thread: Teen Heartthrob Edition Listen. LISTEN. You can’t control the person who makes you FEEL THINGS when you’re a teen. For me, it was Leonardo DiCaprio gazing through a fis…
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"This country isn’t made for us, even though it’s built on our land." Sterling HolyWhiteMountain on the first annual James Welch Festival
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Friday Thread: Alternative Universe You Sometime’s the Friday Thread is very serious. And sometimes it’s what we call a bong rip question: the sort of thing you would pontificate about…
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The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia
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The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy
151
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"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."
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102
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The Expanding Job
279
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
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