It’s a story about dating and falling in love but set in the animal world. The creators of Big Mouth have a new raunchy animated series about animals looking for “tail.” Mating Season begins with a bear named Josh realizing that he has hibernated for too long and his mate has left him for an […]
Tarps Off, Mates!
A viral trend has been spreading across Major League Baseball stadiums, where groups of fans remove their shirts and swing them over their heads in coordinated celebration. The behavior, amplified by social media, has turned into a kind of informal stadium ritual. It has created a mix of spectacle and controversy, with some fans embracing […]
Canadian Fiddler Sues Over AI Claiming He was a Sex Offender
We reported earlier this year on Canadian fiddle-player and songwriter Ashley MacIsaac, who suffered concert cancellations after Google’s AI Overview published claims that he was guilty of sexually assaulting a woman and of luring a child with sexual intent. He has now filed a $1.5 million defamation suit against Google, alleging both material damages and […]
Sex Work Exhibition Opens at German Museum
The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn opens a special exhibition on the cultural history of sex work, based on a collaboration with sex worker researchers, based on the principle “Nothing About Us Without Us.” From the museum’s online announcement: “The exhibition highlights the creative and artistic role that sex workers also play. To tell a cultural history […]
How to Own Your Narrative
Nillin Lore’s recently published Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage (Thornapple Press, March 20, 2026) is a self-help book of sorts for Queer and Trans people. The chapters span topics from self-advocacy to finding community and dealing with queer/transphobia. Gender and sexuality are both front and centre in contemporary moral panics around […]
The Pink Pill
You’ve heard of the little blue pill, but have you heard of the little pink pill? Although there are currently 26 drugs approved to address sexual dysfunction in men, only one drug has been approved to address the issue in women. A new documentary, The Pink Pill, looks at the struggle to get the female […]
Husband Humiliated Celebrity Wife with Deepfake Porn and Social Media
German TV actress and MTV presenter Collien Fernandes has accused ex-husband Christian Ulmen, also a former MTV presenter, comedian, and actor, of being behind a long series of deepfake images and social media accounts in which he impersonated her and pretended to be offering phone sex to numerous associates of the couple in the film […]
Michael Jackson’s Second Family
In the lead up to the long-awaited release of the new Michael Jackson biopic – out in theatres on April 24, 2026 in the U.S. and the U.K. – accusations of Jackson as both a sexual abuser and trafficker continue to foment a damning shadow over the King of Pop’s legacy. The Jackson estate recently […]
On Men Who Blame Progress for Their Pain
A recently released Netflix documentary on the “manosphere” is making some big cultural waves. In it, Louis Theroux, a British filmmaker and journalist, interviews prominent young and charismatic male influencers who feel victimized and ostracized in a world that’s been improved by feminism and other pursuits toward sociopolitical justice. According to the BBC, the manosphere […]
Saving Face
The Face: A Cultural History by Fay Bound-Albert is a fascinating and recently published cultural anthropological project that explores how human societies have interpreted and valued the face over time. Bound-Alberti analyzes how those interpretations influence identity, power, and social hierarchy in the here and now. The face is also something that contemporary gendered and […]