Switch Blades! E-Bikes! Retail Crime! Trans athletes! Human traffickers in the Whole Foods parking lot! We may be living in the Golden Age of moral panics. But we’ve been living in it for quite some time! Today’s cell phones and abstinent teens were once VHS cassettes and rainbow parties. During this special live taping of In Bed with the Right, hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub are joined by Sarah Marshall (You’re Wrong About) and Matt Bernstein (A Bit Fruity) to present minor moral panics past and present. And maybe come up with a theory of minor moral panics along the way. So grab your bingo cards, get a contact high, and prepare to freak the hell out!
Adrian Daub is an academic and writer living in the Bay Area. He is co-host of In Bed with the Right, a weekly podcast on conservative gender politics and how they continue to fuck up our lives. He is the author, most recently, of What Tech Calls Thinking and The Cancel Culture Panic.
Moira Donegan is a writer of criticism, essays, and commentary, covering the intersection of gender, politics, and the law. She is Writer in Residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford and co-host of In Bed With the Right. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Bookforum. She currently writes a column on gender in America for The Guardian. Her first book, Gone Too Far: MeToo, Backlash, and the Future of Feminist Politics, is forthcoming.
Sarah Marshall lives in Portland and hosts the You’re Wrong About podcast.
Matt Bernstein (@mattxiv) is a 27-year-old political and cultural commentary creator living in New York City. A graduate of New York University, Matt began publishing content while in school to document his budding exploration of makeup and simultaneous interests in politics and history. In the years since, Matt’s become a prolific voice online, recognizable by his long acrylic nails and his consistently poignant, witty, and sharp progressive commentary. He hosts the A Bit Fruity podcast, where he extensively covers cultural phenomena from gay conservatives to liberal Zionism to the familial cult of Elon Musk. Matt is passionate about spreading the word that working out with long nails is not actually that difficult and developing his encyclopedic knowledge of Britney Spears history.
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