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Many of us are anxious about sleep. Talk of it is everywhere. But are we always really talking about sleep when we talk about sleep? Our podcast is a series of conversations about how cultural preoccupation with sleep is also about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, work, leisure, and time. It approaches sleep as a necessary and valuable part of human life, as well as a proxy for thinking about other things.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic many people worked not only from home but from bed. In this episode Cressida and Joshua talk with guest Hannah Haugen about that experience, as well as the history of the bed, celebrities, and how the private becomes public.
For many people the first time they will experience acute sleep deprivation is when they have a baby. Can sleep coaches help? We talk with Jeanique Tucker about the first study of infant sleep coaches in Canada.
Getting your zzz’s helps you stay youthful and refreshed! Join hosts Cressida and Joshua in conversation with Meredith Jones on the politics of sleeping beauties, makeover culture, and corpse chic.
Sleep is hard to narrate. But it nonetheless appears everywhere in film, novels, and advertising. We talk with Paul Huebener about his book Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep. Oh, Canada!
Welcome to Sleep is the New Sex: The Podcast! Your hosts Cressida Heyes and Joshua Ayer join with special guests to lead you through a series of conversations about the cultural politics of sleep. In our trailer we explain what it’s all about.
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