We’ve loved sharing our favourite articles, unhinged Twitter threads and analysis Tik Toks in our Weekend Recommendations every Sunday – it’s become one of yours and our most loved series. There has been so much gold shared throughout the year that you might have missed, so we’re giving every single recommendation another moment in the sun here! This is the complete list, categorised by topic, so you’ll never be short of something smart and interesting to indulge in this summer. Go on – gorge on some pop culture analysis, dive into the tech world or read an emotional op-ed!
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JUMP TO: Pop Culture, Racial Commentary, Politics, Big Ideas, Tech, Science & Environment, Personal Stories
Over Thinking Pop Culture Moments
- To All The Boys I Scammed Before – Inventing Anna and Teenage Scammers by Brandon Taylor on Sweater Weather substack
- The Problem With Celebrity Plastic Surgery Analysis Content by Renegade podcast
- We’re All Girlies Online, Whether We Want To Be Or Not by Nana Bah on Refinery29AU
- The Problem With ‘Naarmcore’, TikTok’s Latest Fashion Aesthetic by Hazel Lee on Fashion Journal
- Barbie Ferreira Is Ready for More ‘Hot and Secure’ Fat Girls on TV by Christopher Rosa on Glamour
- How The “Sad Girl” Literary Protagonist Became Trendy Again by Laurann Herrington on BuzzFeed News
- What are the iconic band tees of the future? by @gee_derrick on Tik Tok
- Feminism Made a Faustian Bargain With Celebrity Culture. Now It’s Paying the Price by Susan Faludi on New York Times
- They Are Fans of ‘Euphoria,’ but Not of Its Creator, Sam Levinson by Marc Tracy on New York Times
- Stranger Things Asks Us To Remember Something That Never Was by Patrick Marlborough on Kill Your Darlings
- Trends Are Dead by Terry Nguyen on Vox
- Is This The Death Of Fashion Trends? by Culture Club podcast
- For Cherien Dabis, the Emmy-Nominated Palestinian American Director of ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ Storytelling Is a Matter of Survival by Cherien Dabis on Variety
- Why Do We Find LinkedIn So Cringe? by Sadhbh O’Sullivan on Refinery29AU
- What Does It Mean to Have a ‘Weird’ Brain in the Age of Neurodiversity? by Shayla Love on Motherboard by Vice
- Sydney Sweeney & The Death Of The “Movie Star” by Renegade podcast
- Jennette McCurdy Is Glad Her Mom Died by Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast
- Why do we all have an insatiable hunger for cannibalism content in 2022? by Emma O’Regan-Reidy on Screenshot
- Why has Emma D’Arcy’s Drink Order Created Such Queer Hysteria? by Daisy Jones on The Face
- Why Are Male Horror Directors So Afraid of Naked Old Women? by Anna Menta on Decider
- Selling Sunset And The Shimmering Edifice of Feminist Capitalism by Rayne Fisher-Quann on Next
- Is Being Single Not Aesthetic Anymore? by Steffi Cao on BuzzFeed News
- The Time for Hollywood’s ‘White Male Genius’ Is Over by Anonymous on Elle
- The Try Guys’ Tried To Be The Good Guys by Renegade podcast
- What Does Bipolar Disorder Feel Like? Can it Explain Kanye’s Behavior? by Teddy Amenabar on Washington Post
- Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Missed The Joke by @kaylee.jaye on Tik Tok
- BookTok’s Racial Bias by Tyler McCall on The Cut
- A Gripping Yarn: inside the Knitting.com Drama by Chris Stokel-Walker on Input Mag
- Elon Musk Tweets by @nitetoast on Tik Tok
- Quiet Part Loud podcast by Gimlet Media
Let’s Talk About Race
- I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex by Lori Teresa Yearwood on Mother Jones
- Gen Z vs Millenials vs Black People by @kahlilgreene on Tik Tok
- ‘Shit Happens When You’re Smashed’: Gender, Race and Alcohol-Related Injustice by Meera Atkinson on Overland
- The Violence that Killed Cassius Turvey is Structural. The Solution is Indigenous Self-Determination by June Oscar on Guardian Australia
- #JUSTICEFORWALKER by Get Up Australia
- First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize with a ‘wild ride’ skewering colonial mythologies by Camilla Nelson on The Conversation
A Political Moment
- When Stan Culture Meets Armed Conflict by Catherine Bouris on End of Ze Internet substack
- Australia’s Lack of Economic Complexity Is a Problem by Grant Wyeth on The Diplomat
- Myanmar’s Executed Activists: Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy by Burmese Service and Grace Tsoi on BBC News
- A Toxic Love Affair between Politics and Sports by World Corrupt podcast
- How Does This End? Where The Crisis in American Democracy Might Be Headed by Zack Beauchamp on Vox
- Indigenous Voice to The Coalition by Rachel Withers on The Monthly
- How the Taliban helped build the stadiums for the Qatar World Cup by Joe Wallen on The Telegraph
- Thread explaining the Sydney Festival Boycott in support of Palestine by @Jennineak on Twitter
- The British Royals’ Trip to Jamaica Has Backfired by Ashley Rouen Brown on Jacobin
- ‘Gotcha’ Questions Are Ugly Journalism but Hazards for Leaders by Michelle Grattan on The Conversation
- Defiance by Scott Ludlam on Meanjin Quarterly
- Boris Johnson’s Tenure has Been Defined by Scandal by Ivana Kottasová and Tara Subramaniam on CNN
- Coalition Risks Backlash If It Breaks The Voice by George Megalogenis on The Age
- Relearning Democracy by Tim Dunlop on The Future Of Everything substack
- When ‘having it good’ Leaves You With Nothing: Life as a Renter on the Poverty Line by Kristin O’Connell on Guardian Australia
- Our Welfare System Is So Fkd, I Platonically Married My Best Friend So I Could Get Jobseeker by Anonymous on Pedestrian TV
- Ukraine Wants to Basically Kick Russia Off the Internet. Terrible Idea. by Courtney Radsch on Slate
- Facebook Deliberately Caused Havoc in Australia to Influence New Law, Whistleblowers Say bvy Keach Hagey, Mike Cherney & Jeff Horwitz on Wall Street Journal
Big Brain Things
- The Crankification Engine by Ben Jenkins on Gawker
- Do We Really Want Cis Men to Speak Up About Abortion? by Sarah Manavis on Gawker
- How Did Being “Cunty” Become Cool in the Queer Community? by Ian Kumamoto on Mic
- Against the Big Screen Beauty Contest: Review of “Girl Online” by Phillipa Snow on The New Republic
- America’s False Idols by Scott Galloway on The Atlantic
- Why The West Is Afraid Of Colour by Ishani Nath on The Juggernaut
- On The Lie of “Let People Like Things” by Stitch on Teen Vogue
- Homer Simpson vs. The Economy by Planet Money podcast
- The Money Is In All The Wrong Places by Kelsey McKinney on Defector
- What We Gain From a Good-Enough Life by Lily Meyer on The Atlantic
- Boomer Mathematics: Why Older Generations Can’t Understand the Millennial Struggle to Buy a House by Sarah Manavis on The New Statesman
- What if Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by Rhaina Cohen on The Atlantic
- Critical Thinking – Crystal Andrews by Tomversation podcast
- Nick Kyrgios Brings out the Worst in Both Sides of the Tennis Divide During Wimbledon Campaign by Russell Jackson on ABC News
- National Survey of Mental Health Reveals Young Women at Greatest Risk by Zalika Rizmal on ABC News
- To Breed or Not To Breed by Ryan Shelton on The Imperfects podcast
Tech Talk
- Have You Ever Really Paid For Music? by Jake C.Net
- Sam Bankman-Fried and the Fall of a Crypto Empire by Planet Money podcast
- Social Media Is Dead by Edward Ongweso Jr on Motherboard by Vice
- ‘All My Apes Gone’: NFT Theft Victims Beg for Centralized Saviors by Edward Ongweso Jr on Motherboard by Vice
- “An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney by James Vincent on The Verge
- The planned Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger has been struck down in court by Constance Grady on Vox
Science and Environment
- Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger may be a noble idea – but what about preserving existing species? by Adam Morton on Guardian Australia
- Australia could get to net zero emissions much quicker than 2050 – if our politics was a force for change. Here’s how by Anna Malos & Simon Graham on The Conversation
- One Man’s Lonely, Lonely Fight to Ban Private Jets by Aaron Gordon on Motherboard by Vice
- The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World by Jackson Ryan on CNET
- Should We Be Breeding Pigs Just for Their Hearts? by Jan Dutkiewicz on The New Republic
- The AFL, the concussion doctor and the groundbreaking brain study that never appeared by Melissa Davey, Stephanie Convery and Emma Kemp on Guardian Australia
A Personal Touch (Essays & Personal Stories)
- I Was Reporting On an Unfolding Crisis as My Own Family Was Trying To Survive It’ by Rashida Yosufzai on SBS
- Ita Buttrose Has Revealed She Doesn’t Understand The ABC’s Biggest Problem by Osman Faruqi on Sydney Morning Herald
- The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee by Raquel Rutledge on ProPublica
- I Lost My Mom to QAnon. Wordle Is Bringing Her Back by David Gilbert on Vice
- Losing Touch by Omar Sakr on Meanjin Quarterly
- Angrezee – A Short Film by Hebah Ali
- Serena Williams’s Farewell to Tennis—In Her Own Word by Serena Williams on Vogue
- Archie Roach Obituary by Robin Densenlow on Guardian Australia
- He was deadly, a deadly man’: remembering the incredible life and work of Uncle Jack Charles by Julie Andrews on The Conversation
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