Ever needed vindication in liking a Jojo Siwa song? Wanted to feel validated in hating Saltburn? Follow Polyester’s head hags Ione Gamble and Gina Tonic on their journey picking apart the internet’s obsessions - girlhood anyone? - through a pop culture informed feminist lens. The Polyester Podcast has hosted guests like Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry and Priscilla costume designer Stacey Battat, has come to you live from the Tate and the Barbican, and delivers a new episode every Monday taking on that week’s discourse with the kind of cultural commentary that makes ya laugh over your matcha on your first commute of the week.Hosted by Editor in Chief Ione Gamble with Senior Editor Gina Tonic. Edited by Olivia Graham. Have faith in your own bad taste!Support our work and become a Polyester Podcast member <3Polyester is a self published, intersectional feminist arts and culture publication aiming to bridge the gap of URL cyberfeminism with the IRL world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum: The Ugliness Of Power
It's the season finale of The Kardashians and this series can be only summed up as self serving: Every single piece of imagery given in this series has been a medium to send a message: Scott's birthday party serves only to remind the audience that Kim used to grace the covers of canine magazines and now she has featured multiple times on the front of Vogue...
Are You Girl Pretty Or Boy Pretty? How TikTok Brought Back Y2K Self Loathing
Another trend has spawned across TikTok and the site formally known as Twitter - Are you girl pretty or boy pretty? The difference largely lies in how you appeal to the male gaze as hosts Ione Gamble and Gina Tonic explore in this week's podcast episode...
Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum: Who's Allowed To Criticise The Kardashians?
This week, The Kardashians are leaning into the uncanny valley nature of their narrative construction, taking us behind the scenes on Kourtney's pregnancy announcement and Kim and North debating fashion as she gets dressed for the Met.
Marie and MJ are questioning the hierarchies of who the family - and those around them - defers to...
Live At the Barbican: How Feminism And Climate Change Are Irrevocably Linked
In an extra special live episode in collaboration with Barbican, we invited our art history columnist Zara Aftab to host a conversation with artist Rene Matic and journalist Diyora Shadijanova exploring their exhibition RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology. The trio discuss the ways categorisation has diminished our connection to nature, the growing intersectionality of feminism relating to the climate and the importance of community care...
Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum: Disorientation at Tiffany's
What is there to day? There’s an apology tour to squeeze out what’s left of the scandals.
Then a lot of time being spent creating more structures and storylines about Kim working constantly, so we’re gonna show her being tired. What does that mean though? Why do we care? A way for The Kardashians to show us a version of true slices of life - the busy reality of trips to New York, meetings, appearances, disorientation at Tiffany's...
Why The Internet Hates 'This Is Not Your Mother's Mean Girls'
It's finally here: The trailer for the movie of the musical of the movie Mean Girls, but the promotion for 'Not your mother's Mean Girls' has the generations united in disdain. Why did they say that? And why is Regina George wearing combats? This week Ione and Gina are discussing nostalgia culture and the eroding of tweenhood...
Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum: Is Kim Copying Taylor Swift's PR Moves?
This episode they packed in a loooot of storylines. Lots of the Momager and with Kris needing to be everywhere at once, she finds new ways to do it. There’s questions about Kendall and talk of more Scaffolding to protect the privacy. And a bit more from the NPCs and how it feels to enter it and how it feels to be on the outside of it.
Anand in the world of celebrity action this week we’ve got Kim and Taylor doing v similar PR moves and guess what, they both involve sports...
Selena Gomez, Amy Schumer, & The Problem With Celebrities Getting Political Online
Why has Macklemore got a better take on war than Kier Starmer? This week Ione and Gina are taking a look at the culture surrounding celebrity opinions in relation to major political events...
Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum: Is this Real Drama?
What stood out to you sisters? Fake drama on the show? Could they ever?
There’s the relevance of incredibly empty and fluffy episodes when so much is happening outside of the show. A very tame Palm Springs for easter trip, some trouble in the grey gardens and it’s clearer than ever the show is just a bunch of scaffolding to shield the sisters from their reality.
Kim tells the fam about her new role in AHS, there’s a humble brag - oh she loves taking on a challenge...
Why Do Women Love Being Redpilled?
Is the dirtbag left just conservatism and facism in a pretty outfit? More and more women are joining the alt-right under the guise of irony, playing a crucial part in the widening of political divides and making bank by broadcasting their bigoted opinions. With tradwifes going mainstream and shock-politics podcasts drawing in hundreds of thousands of listeners; Ione and Gina are examining what it takes for women to be indoctrinated into a movement that exists to belittle them...