Obsessions: Dorian Electra On The Complicated History Of The Fedora
The Polyester Podcast
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4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the one and only Dorian Electra. The queer pop icon will be taking us through the a-z of the fedora hat. From it's first iteration as a queer symbol, to a mid 00's pop-star fave, to it's current connotations with the alt-right. We'll be chatting to Dorian about their work reappropriating symbols from the right through a radical queer lens, the importance of arming yourself with knowledge of those who sit on the opposite end of the political spectrum, and how socio-political symbols have changed in the age of social media.
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ione. Hi, I'mini. Hi, Olivia, and hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm Ioni and I'm the founder and editor of Polyester online and imprint. And I'm Olivia, the co-host producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes with the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions for next. |
| 0:34.0 | This week is the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person we admire about something |
| 0:38.1 | they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:41.4 | And next week is the sleepover club where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations |
| 0:45.3 | you usually have it asleep over with your gale mates. Yay, I'm so pleased to be picking |
| 0:49.4 | out this obsessions and I feel like it also complements really well the skin your own episode |
| 0:53.7 | we have Thursday so |
| 0:55.2 | I'm very excited for this week's podcasts in general oh yeah this week is like really intensely |
| 1:00.9 | deconstructing the internet in a good way in a nice way yeah yeah 100% so this week on |
| 1:07.5 | obsessions we're going to keep the intro short and sweet because it runs a bit long, but we are speaking to Dorian Electra, who you may remember, if you have been following polyester for a while, you may remember them from our non-threatening boys scene, which we featured them in. |
| 1:23.2 | I've known Dorian for quite a long time now, like we're in the same spheres of the internet, I suppose, |
| 1:29.0 | even though, yeah, we've only met like once, but I've known of them, known them, been mutuals |
| 1:33.8 | with them for years. And they are basically like a pop star, but as I kind of say in the podcast, |
| 1:39.4 | I call them like a, I think I call them a pop anthropologist. Yeah. Like they do a really great job of kind of just |
| 1:46.8 | like analyzing current cultural trends and past cultural trends and the history of things through |
| 1:53.0 | pop and pop culture. And they're going to be talking about the fedora, which is definitely an |
| 1:59.8 | amazing obsession just because of like the breadth of Dorian's |
| 2:02.5 | knowledge and also like the importance of like artifacts in political movements that either |
| 2:09.5 | on the left or on the right yeah and even just the history of stuff like why you like something |
| 2:15.0 | and why you don't and where that's even come from in the first place. Yeah, exactly. So very excited for you all to hear this one and here it is. Yay. |
| 2:35.4 | Great. Just uh, Hey, Dorian. Hey, how are y'all doing? |
| 2:36.6 | Good, how are you? |
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