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The ugly side of the beauty industry with Jess DeFino

Botox, vampire facials, bone smashing and now cadaver fat fillers: the beauty industry is expert in selling extreme (and painful) treatments in our endless pursuit of perfection and eternal youth. For years, Jess DeFino worked at the heart of this machine as an assistant editor for the Kardashian f…

Celebrity Weddings, The Drama, and How Women Were Taught to Be

In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia looks at three seemingly separate parts of pop culture: celebrity weddings, the dark comedy The Drama, and Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl. Beneath all three is the same uncomfortable question. How much of what we call personal choice comes from seeing the same …

The Culture That Sold Women Back to Themselves

This episode reviews Girl on Girl as a sharp and unsettling work of cultural criticism about late 1990s and early 2000s pop culture. Sophie Gilbert argues that an entire generation of women was taught to mistake visibility for power, sexual objectification for liberation, and self-surveillance for …

The Internet Is More Image-Focused Than Ever

It wasn’t that long ago that “body positivity” was all over the internet. Oppressive beauty standards hadn’t gone away by any stretch, but many people on social media were pushing against limits on what an “ideal” body could look like. Now, things have swung in the opposite direction, with the rapi…

Tackling the TBR Shelf: Reading Intimidating Books!

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 264 of Book Talk Etc., Tina and Hannah tackle the TBR shelf and read books from their personal home libraries in an effort to kick those books off their TBRs. Every month, Tina and Hannah spin the wheel, and randomly select a patron selected prompt. This month, we read b…

Pop Culture IS 'That Deep'

A mini episode from Patreon about this fascinating book called Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert before Wednesday's episode on Sydney Sweeney and her American Eagles jeans/genes ad campaign. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.squarespace.c…

Barbie, or Life in Plastic

"It’s about a fucking doll!" - Amy Taubin This week, the Marvelous! crew sets their sights on the hot pink pop cultural phenomenon that is Barbie, a billion-plus dollar (post-)feminist object/Mattel rebrand strategy grappling with the fraught, symbolic legacy of the world's most famous doll by giv…

Are we in a literacy crisis? Part 1

Send us Fan Mail If you read the news or look at social media, you've probably heard that the U.S. is in the throes of a literacy crisis. Are we? And what do we even mean when we say 'literacy?' Join as we unpack this topic in a special two-part episode. In this first part, we discuss the history o…

Jackie Oh!

The novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world? By Sophie Gilbert From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠October 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You’ll …

Female Friendships After 40: Why the Right Friends Never Make You Perform

Female friendships after 40 hit different. My friend Brooke showed up for my 30th birthday....that's when we became real friends. Fifteen-plus years later, eleven of us flew to Charleston to celebrate her 50th. In this solo episode, I'm sharing the real story behind the trip videos you saw on Insta…