The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Story With Yomi Adegoke

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our brand new limited podcast series, The Skin You're In! Each week, for six weeks, we'll be exploring what it means to be alive today, and the biggest issues affecting our generation. From period poverty to body positivity, gender, disability, feminism and race, we want to know where the conversations are at, and what we can do to move them forward.

Our first guest is the wonderful Yomi Adegoke! A multi-award winning journalist, and co-author of the best selling book Slay In Your Lane, Yomi tells us about creating spaces for Black women, the changing face of internet discourse, how we can foster meaningful change as well as productive dialogue, and much more.

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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. Polyester is a self published culture zine exploring intersectional URL feminism in the IRL world. Have faith in your own bad taste! And follow us on Instagram!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Hi everyone. Ioni and Olivia here and we are so excited to be presenting a brand new limited podcast series exploring modern identity. 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. From period poverty to body positivity, gender and race, we want to know where the conversations
0:25.6	are at and what we can do to move them forward.
0:28.1	We're talking to the people at the forefront of these issues enacting change through their
0:31.6	work and lives.
0:33.2	So let's go.
0:33.9	I am very excited.
0:34.9	This is episode one.
0:37.1	So today, I mean, every week we've got
0:39.1	amazing guests, which you will find out about as the weeks go on. This is going to be a new
0:43.6	weekly podcast every Thursday. So not only will you get the polyester podcast, we're going to
0:47.6	get Thursdays, the skin you're in for six weeks. So this episode was speaking to Yomi Adioke,
0:53.6	who is amazing. She is a journalist. She is also the co-author of Slay in Your Lane, which has been described as Black Girl's Bible. It's an amazing book. I mean, Yomi's work is just so amazing. I don't even know where to begin. She is a guardian columnist. She's just an amazing person. Yomi is also one of the first
1:13.9	people I ever wrote for when I was still at uni and I actually can't believe it's taken us this
1:18.4	long to get her onto something for polyester, but I'm so happy that we did. So here's the interview
1:23.9	with Yami. Hi Yomi, how are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? I'm good. I feel like this is the first time we've actually spoke somewhat in person, which is so weird. It is so very strange because I'm sure it's been at least, I want to say like six or seven years since we've came across you. Yeah, it's been a really long time.
1:44.3	And the fact that it's still not in person,
1:46.0	it's kind of like these incremental meets,
1:47.9	like email, Twitter, Instagram.
1:52.0	Give it another five years and we'll be able to meet in person.
1:57.0	So, yeah, obviously the listeners won't know.
1:59.9	But I think it was my first, like, proper commission,
2:03.7	apart from weird music magazines that I wrote for in Brighton,
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