The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Community With Megane Mercury
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Missed us during our summer break? Surprise! We have an extra special The Skin You're In episode with Megane Mercury - the winner of our Queer Creative Fund.
Hosts Ione Gamble and Gina Tonic speak with Megane about the importance of queer community, how said community differs outside of the concept of 'global pride' and how the internet has changed how we reach out to others. From how to find your people, to existing outside of the mainstream and creating your own opportunities; we cover it all.
The Skin You're In, a Polyester Podcast, is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl), in collaboration with @monki.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Ioni and Gina here and we're so excited to be presenting a brand new episode of our podcast series exploring modern identity. |
| 0:14.2 | Made in collaboration with Monkey, the skin you're in explores what it means to be alive today and the biggest issues affect in our generation. |
| 0:21.3 | From online activism, marginalised people in the workplace and representation of bodies, |
| 0:25.3 | we want to know where the conversations are at and what we can do to move them forward. |
| 0:29.7 | We're talking to the people at the forefront of these issues, enacted change through their work |
| 0:34.0 | and their lives. |
| 0:35.5 | So, wow, a sneaky episode. |
| 0:39.2 | A cheeky, cheeky monkey episode. |
| 0:41.2 | Cheeky, cheeky cheeky. |
| 0:43.0 | We are speaking today to... |
| 0:46.4 | McGahn Mercury, Ian. |
| 0:48.1 | Who is the winner of our queer creative fund. |
| 0:51.1 | So if you have missed what we've been posting about on socials or on the |
| 0:55.1 | website or even on the podcast, we mentioned it a couple of times before the summer break, |
| 0:59.2 | we've been working on a queer creative fund to offer one recipient, a cash like grant, mentorship |
| 1:05.3 | sessions with us, podcast episode, which you are listening to now, a cover of the dollhouse. And yeah, |
| 1:10.6 | it's just been bloody great news, really. So do you want listening to now, a cover of the dollhouse. And yeah, it's just been |
| 1:11.1 | bloody great news, really. So do you want to introduce McGain a bit, Chi? Yeah, McGain's a majority-based |
| 1:18.3 | photographer of colour. Their work revolves very much around their life as a queer person |
| 1:25.7 | of colour in Spain and their community so they're not only use their |
| 1:29.1 | photography work and also they're like a multi-media artist so they're like I think they do drag |
| 1:34.4 | they have an album out they have like so many different avenues of queer expression and the way that |
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