The Skin You're In: End of Year Activism Special With Anshika Khullar and Plan international
The Polyester Podcast
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4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Using the end of the year to reflect on things? Thinking of becoming an activist, or wondering what different types of socio-political movements are out there? Then you’re in luck! We’re back with a special episode of our podcast The Skin You’re In, to discuss how 2020 has changed us all, and what we can do to create the future world we want to live in.
Joined by two very special guests - illustrators Anshika Khullar and a youth activist from Plan International - we’re picking apart the state of social justice, considering the shared goals of creative and traditional activism, and why there’s a place for all of us in the fight for equal rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Ioni and Olivia here, and we're so excited to be presenting a one-off episode of our podcast series exploring modern identity. |
| 0:15.4 | Made in collaboration with Monkey, the skin you're in explores what it means to be alive today and the biggest issues affecting our generation. In this special episode, we're going to be talking about activism and we have two |
| 0:25.7 | amazing special guests that we can't wait to introduce you to. And we're really happy to once again |
| 0:30.1 | be talking to people at the forefront of these issues and acting change through their work and lives. |
| 0:34.9 | So, first of all, I hope everyone had a nice festive time of year. |
| 0:40.0 | Woo! |
| 0:40.9 | Ione and I are both really happy to be ending the year on a conversation about activism because |
| 0:44.9 | it feels like social issues, though they should never be ignored, it's been much harder |
| 0:49.6 | to ignore them this year and people have got more and less involved in good and bad ways. |
| 0:54.8 | And so we're really happy to like kind of sit down and talk about what that means for |
| 0:59.3 | this year and what it means going into next year. |
| 1:01.5 | 100%. So our guests are people that we kind of picked because like they both come from |
| 1:07.9 | extremely kind of different angles on it. But I think especially for this episode and also just it runs through polyester |
| 1:15.3 | that we want to kind of convey that, you know, |
| 1:17.4 | there's so many different types of ways to be an activist or to just like make a difference |
| 1:21.5 | in people's lives and the world. |
| 1:23.6 | And we wanted to show the multiplicity of that with a couple of people that we think |
| 1:27.1 | do it really well. |
| 1:28.2 | Our first guest is Anshikert, who you may better know as Aorists online. I don't know if I |
| 1:33.1 | pronounce the Instagram handle right, it's A-O-R-I-S-T-S. They are an amazing illustrator and |
| 1:40.1 | artist. I've been obsessed with their work for ages because last year, Polly, Nora and I did |
| 1:46.2 | like a campaign around the general election to try and get artists involved in like making |
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