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Eight of our favourite podcasts from 2018

What you may have missed — From life on the red planet to life in ISIS – we round up the best audio series from the past year.

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  • Thomas Curry

Romantic storytelling & the way we perform love online

New Romantics — Telling a story with ourselves at the centre is the way that we make sense of the world, writes Emily Reynolds. But when we tell this story to an audience we don’t quite know, it cheapens everything.

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  • Emily Reynolds

How Tumblr became a sanctuary for the Internet’s outsiders

End of an era — The blogging website’s ban on adult content threatens to alienate the most marginalised in society, and block future generations’ road to self-discovery.

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  • Lydia Morrish

Cancel culture: when celebrity worship goes wrong

Notes on online outrage — Calling out injustice, sexual abuse, corruption, and industry-protected violence is necessary, argues Ayishat Akanbi. But too often we’re aiming at the wrong target.

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  • Ayishat Akanbi

Meet the women of the incel movement

The truth about femcels — The ‘involuntarily celibate’ community is typically seen as being male-dominated, with female members – otherwise known as ‘femcels’ – often being overlooked. Writer Nick Chester meets the women who are being left behind.

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  • Nick Chester

What I’ve learnt about online dating and intimacy in 2018

New Romantics — Searching for connections online can stop us from meeting someone IRL, as writer Emily Reynolds discovered. Sometimes we need to put down the screen and leave the house.

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  • Emily Reynolds

The powerful IRL effects of online intimacy

New Romantics — In the digital world, to touch someone – to change their body, their mind, the way they experience the world – you don’t have to touch them at all.

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  • Emily Reynolds

Switch off? In the digital age, we’ll always be reachable

New Romantics — Our constant online presence means we’re always available, even when we don’t want to be.

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  • Emily Reynolds

Relationships are complex – we shouldn’t have to label them

New Romantics — Our connections with people, particularly online, are becoming harder to categorise. It’s the feeling we should cherish – not the words we use to describe them.

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  • Emily Reynolds

How ghosting became modern dating’s cardinal sin

New Romantics — We’ve all been there: someone you’re talking to suddenly goes quiet, dropping off the face of the earth. For journalist and author Emily Reynolds, it’s the waiting that hurts the most.

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  • Emily Reynolds

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