Ctrl+ Society

This one opens with COVID and codependency — why needing people got treated like a personality flaw, and what the pandemic actually exposed about that. From there we follow the money: emotional capitalism turning partnership into a checklist (flowers, good morning texts, walking on the traffic side), and therapy-speak becoming ammunition people use on each other without ever sitting in a room toge...

SkinnyTok has had many names. Pro-ana. Thinspiration. Now this. The goals have not changed, just the packaging. In this episode, Anshita and Suchi argue that SkinnyTok is a visual regime that turns hunger into a monster, thinness into a moral virtue, and women's bodies into a site of pure aesthetics while ignoring that this aesthetic was never race-neutral to begin with. They also get into the gir...

This week, Suchi bought a book at an antique store in Harrisburg, and somehow we ended up here talking about making Cheetos from scratch. In episode two, we’re talking about the rise of the trad wife movement and what it looks like on the internet. We ask what brought us here, who benefits when women romanticize losing rights, and where do we go from here? Featuring themes from Foucault, sexism, a...

Okay so Anshita got blocked. By an influencer. For citing extra readings. In our debut episode, we use one very petty moment as a launchpad into some big questions: What is knowledge? How does it come to exist? What counts as research? And who decided a degree makes you the authority on human behavior; because Instagram certainly has thoughts. Welcome to the first episode of Ctrl+Society, where we...