News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content
Added 2021-06-16 16:21:21 +0000 UTCIn this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depressed friends and how it's part of a much broader trend of pop sociology repackaging cruelty and soft eugenics as "science-driven" self improvement. With guest Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panal podcast.
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Guest
Beatrice Adler-Bolton is an artist, writer and host of The Death Panel podcast. She is co-author of the forthcoming book Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto, which will be published by Verso books in 2022. Follow Beatrice @realLandsEnd.
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Show Notes
How to Rearrange Your Post-Pandemic ‘Friendscape’
Kate Murphy | June 1, 2021 | The New York Times
The pandemic is showing us which friendships are worth keeping
Lisa Bonos | January 22, 2021 | The Washington Post
The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
Amanda Mull | January 27, 2021 | The Atlantic
My Friend Group Dumped Me and Now I Have No One!
Heather Havrilesky | January 6, 2021 | The Cut
Some Friendships Are Taking A ‘Pandemic Pause’ And That’s All Right
Kelsey Borreson | December 22, 2020 | Huffington Post
How to Deal With a Friendship ‘Quiet Season’
Anna Goldfarb | September 24, 2020 | The New York Times
The Pandemic Has Remade Friendship
Eva Hagberg | September 22, 2020 | The Atlantic
I have culled my friends to just the ones I value
Georgina Fuller | March 8, 2020 | The Guardian
Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
Clive Thompson | September 10, 2009 | The New York Times
How Much Is Your Life Worth to a Court?
Lisa Cylar Barrett and Dariely Rodriguez | April 30, 2019 | Bloomberg Law
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this News Brief, go here.
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Comments
They're making an episode on that? 👀
Anne Martine Engebakken Grymyr
2021-06-25 16:48:34 +0000 UTCany chance this news brief gets released to the general audience feed? would love to share it
Emma & Brian
2021-06-20 13:47:05 +0000 UTCLove Beatrice's point about the punctual worker vs the qualified one.
Coupcumber
2021-06-20 12:15:33 +0000 UTCSo Beatrice rocks
Late Capitalist Filth
2021-06-17 05:18:55 +0000 UTCTwo of my fav pods coming together *wipes away a tear*
Vikki and Paul
2021-06-16 18:28:53 +0000 UTClooking forward to y’all’s episode on fatphobia
c
2021-06-16 17:41:01 +0000 UTC<3 Bea can't recommend Death Panel enough to anyone not already a patron
sensorsweep
2021-06-16 17:30:02 +0000 UTC
