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Big Question: Is Black Friday Good or Bad? 5 Things to Consider Before You Shop
In an (almost) post-COVID world... is Black Friday ultimately good or bad for us and the economy?
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Episode 11: Can Two Competing Beliefs Both Be True?
This episode is a mental reset. Crystal explores the idea of two competing groups both holding equally true arguments, and whether refusing to acknowledging when others are 'right' is ultimately what is holding all of us back from progress. Are we really trying to make the world better,
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Episode 10: Is Body Positivity Still Helpful? with April Watson, Bodzilla
Body Positivity: what does it really mean, who is it really for, and was Zee Feed right to criticise the movement in favour of body neutrality in 2019? The answers, as always are… complicated, but worth thinking about. April Watson, aka Bodzilla, podcaster and BoPo advocate joins Debatable to discuss
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Episode 9: Can We Redefine Optimism?
SOLO EPISOE: No guests, just Crystal exploring how a week of arguing with random men on the Internet prompted her to re-evaluate her definition of optimism. In the 21st Century, should optimism be less about fate and more about active resourcefulness? In the episode: * Emotional stress of arguing with men
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Episode 8: Are Gen Z the New Baby Boomers? with Chelsea Andrews
Millennials and Gen Zs are not the same. Sure, we might fight on the same team sometimes but each generation has fundamental differences. Let’s get honest: What do Millennials and Gen Zs hate about each other? In this special episode of Debatable, Crystal is joined by her baby sister
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Episode 7: How Can We Make Aussie Entertainment More Diverse? with Pavan Dutta
Australian news media was savaged this week for being so, so white, and entertainment media is not much better. How can we – the viewers, listeners, readers – help make the media and entertainment landscape more representative of the population? It turns out we have more power than we think. Pavan Dutta,
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Episode 6: Why Do Our Brains Crave Cancel Culture? with Ash King
Whether you're calling someone out publicly or watching from the sidelines, you're involved in cancel culture. But is there a difference between those who speak up and those who stay silent? What is the psychological drive behind cancel culture and why does it feel so good?
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Episode 5: Will Myspace End Our Political Ambitions? with Rachael Conaghan
We've all been warned that the Internet is permanent. So what happens when young people – who've been posting online their entire lives – begin to enter politics? With so many political careers already being ended because of old posts on social media, will Millennial and Gen Z
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Episode 4: Is Beyoncé and the Era of Mega-Celebrity Over? with Sarah Fitzmaurice
Zee Feed’s Instagram followers made a surprising confession: they do NOT like Beyoncé. Their reasoning? She’s too superior, too unnapproachable, too private. Does this mean the era of aspirational, superstar celebrity is over? Sarah Fitzmaurice, a journalist who has reported on celebrities for some of the world’s
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Episode 3: Did COVID-19 Memes Expose Us as Eco-Facists? with Tim Lo Surdo
Remember all those “We are the virus” memes being shared on social media during the initial COVID-19 outbreaks in March? If you shared them, you should be aware of the dangerous belief system they were connected to: Ecofacism, a topic where race, class, privilege and the climate crisis all collide.
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Episode 2: Why Don't Men Like Content Created by Women? with Josh Janssen
It’s well documented that men generally don’t read books by women, but is that true for podcasts, YouTube channels and blogs too? Why is it that male creators can build an audience that’s 50/50, while the work of female creators is invisibly labeled as being “for
Debatable Podcast
Episode 1: Who Are We Funding When We Shop? with Sianna Catullo
From the Australian bushfires, to COVID-19, to the global surge of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, 2020 has seen consumers waking up to the fact that their money has power. What’s more important, the product being bought or the person making money from it? Sianna Catullo, Chief