Introducing Our Next Chapter: The Polyester Dollhouse!
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Over lockdown, we’ve been thinking about how best to connect with our community in online spaces, the often-hostile environment that is social media, and how to make Polyester a sustainable platform for the team and contributors alike. Now, we need our communities help to continue our work providing safer spaces for creative, intersectional conversations to live.
That's where the Dollhouse comes in; and why Ione is jumping on with this bonus mini-episode to chat to you today. The Dollhouse is a special members section of our site; it’ll encapsulate everything we love about running Polyester, with the same monthly content, but added community activations to create a safe space online for us all to exist; think tarot readings, tv shows, group chats, and loads more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Ione here and I am so excited to be jumping on today to talk to you about a brand new project that we've been working on here at Polyester that is going to be launching within the next few days. |
| 0:14.7 | For a generation that has grown up around screens, from meeting mates online to following all of our favourites on social media, the lockdown of 2020 should have felt like a homecoming. |
| 0:23.8 | Our Tumblr routes made us accustomed to staying inside, logging onto a dashboard and communicating with others our age and kind across the world. |
| 0:31.3 | That said, the kind of platform that encouraged community, connectivity and creativity that we had in 2010 has been gone for years. |
| 0:38.8 | Social media sites, such as Instagram, which I'm talking to on now, are continuously censoring |
| 0:44.3 | our peers, as well as us. Polyester has always been committed to curating an online, inclusive |
| 0:51.5 | community. But between a presidential election, a pandemic, |
| 0:56.6 | and more hate crimes committed yearly than ever before, |
| 0:59.4 | we need a new safe space and something that social media cannot offer us. |
| 1:05.9 | So with all of that in mind, we've decided to make one of our own. |
| 1:09.8 | It's going to be called the Polyester |
| 1:11.2 | Dole House and I am so, so excited to launch it. With years of experience in celebrating |
| 1:16.4 | diversity and creating supportive and collaborative environments, the new Polyester Dole House |
| 1:20.7 | will not only showcase our favourite activists and creatives online, but host conversations, |
| 1:25.9 | submissions and collaboration with our community. |
| 1:28.5 | Think of it like there'll be monthly chats with me and the team, |
| 1:32.4 | top tips from your favourite creatives, art agonance, tarot readings, monthly members events, |
| 1:42.6 | and all the same content that you've come to know and love from polyester we aren't |
| 1:47.3 | aiming to be any less of a publication a podcast a website or a newsletter but with this new dollhouse |
| 1:52.7 | we want to foster a cooperative space to continue to champion creative activism as you probably know |
| 2:00.3 | polyester has always been a self-funded publication. |
| 2:03.1 | After years of producing content and supporting creatives off our own backs, we need help from |
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