The Sleepover Club: Balenciaga, Satanic Panic, And How The Left Falls For QAnon Conspiracies

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, Ione and Eden are trying to get to the bottom of the Balenciaga story; separating the fact from fiction, as well as examining how the controversy grew so large in the media and on social media. As the conspiracy theories around the fashion brand continue to spread like wildfire, we're digging into the importance of media literacy and how far right propaganda runs rampant on the internet.

With users searching for the most sinister explanation possible when it comes to any number of subjects online, we're unknowingly allowing the far right to pull so many people into its orbit — But how do we stop and break these patterns of behaviour?

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Myoni and I'm the founding
0:05.6	editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Eden and the managing
0:10.6	editor of Pollyester and the co-host of this podcast. This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast
0:16.4	we pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe.
0:24.5	Do we have any reviews?
0:25.8	Yes, we do.
0:26.9	This one's really cute as well.
0:28.7	Five stars.
0:29.8	One year, babes.
0:31.1	I've officially been listening to this podcast every week for the last year on my walk to work.
0:35.3	As a feminist teacher, an avid consumer of pop culture,
0:39.2	your hot takes and deconstruction of societal trends always keep me intrigued. I cannot recommend
0:44.3	this podcast enough. Ioni and E. Dinner icons. That is from McCrae Cray in the US of A. Thank you so
0:52.1	much. Thank you so much. That's so sweet. I'm actually going to cry.
0:55.5	Aw. I love reading them all. Me and Eden always send them to each. Well, I always try not
1:00.0	send them to Eden so then they're surprised when I read them out, but I started sending her
1:03.7	them when we get them. Yeah. I really appreciate every single one. Everyone's so nice.
1:09.0	Oh my God, you've actually got tears in your eyes.
1:12.8	I won't be bloody surprised. Cry everything. Okay, so today is a very big topic. I feel like
1:21.3	we're going to get counsel for this one. Yeah, this is a, it's quite a dark tone that this podcast, this episode, I think it will be.
1:30.0	If this is the last ever episode of the Polyester podcast, we love you.
1:35.1	This is us one song.
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