Who is cancel culture actually benefitting and does it have a place in 2021?

When does doing the right thing turn into something potentially more sinister?

Calling bad behaviour out or ‘cancelling’ someone or something has thrust itself into the mainstream in the last few years – spreading what we now know as cancel culture.

But what are the pros and cons of this? What happens if we’re cancelled ourselves?

Associate Professor Crystal Abidin is a Digital Anthropologist and Ethnographer of Vernacular Internet Cultures from Internet Studies at Curtin University. She dropped by Breakfast with Taylah to unpack the complicated world of call out and cancel culture.

Living With Cancel Culture