Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'

A Culture Study subscription is less than a cup of coffee a month. Summer is hard time for writers, as people are distracted doing so much else. If you believe in the value of this project, if you open these emails and share them and find value in the ideas we discuss, consider subscribing: Subscribing gets you access to the weekly Things I Read and Loved at the end of the Sunday newsletter, the massive monthly links/recs posts, full Garden Study access, and all the weekly threads and discussion — like Friday’s What You've (Recently) Learned About Yourself and Tuesday’s What Are You Watching, Peak of Summer Edition. If you’re exasperated by social media, this still feels like a really good place to be on the internet. I hope you’ll join us. Back in 2020, I got my hands on screeners of Cheer — the Netflix documentary following the national champion Navarro College cheerleading squad — and devoured it in two days. I was a cheerleader through junior high and high school, and I love watchi

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