The Sleepover Club: How Catholic Chic Became Summers Biggest Trend
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
All across our social feeds, girlies online are embracing religion and creating memes out of catholicism. Whether you've bought the Praying 'father, son, and Holy Spirit' bikini, or still can't stop thinking about Julia Fox praying in her cut editorial - christianity is back baby! But is this appropriation of religious iconography a harmless foray into aesthetics, a subversion of their power, or simply in bad taste? We're discussing the origins of the trend, its current incarnation, and if we should be aestheticising a religion that still harms so many people.
Please note, this episode was recorded prior to the overturning of Roe vs Wade on the 24th of June 2022, we'll be discussing this news in upcoming episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.3 | Hi, Annie. |
| 0:02.2 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayoni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-st of Poliast podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:27.9 | Before we begin, please like, rate review and subscribe. It helps us so much. I only, as I always say every week, do we have any reviews? We do, as I've been able to say every week, because you've all |
| 0:33.0 | been leaving excellent reviews. This one is five stars, love heart, but like the old school love heart, |
| 0:38.5 | which I appreciate. And it just says, man, I love you all. And it's from an American person. |
| 0:43.4 | So I know I sound stupid saying y'all, but the person doesn't sound stupid saying it because they're |
| 0:48.1 | American and they're with skeleton sneeze. So thank you so, so so much, skeleton sneeze. |
| 0:53.4 | Thank you. What's an old school |
| 0:54.8 | love her? Like, you know, the kind of pointy bracket with a thing. Oh, okay, I love that love her. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, same. I love, I love, I love. Right. What are we talking about the Sikaiyani? We are talking |
| 1:07.5 | about the aesthetic trend of Catholicism or Catholic motifs being aestheticised via the internet. |
| 1:18.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:18.7 | I only loves this topic. |
| 1:20.2 | No, I just think it's interesting. |
| 1:21.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:22.1 | It's interesting. |
| 1:22.8 | I've been noticing it swirling about for like, as a conversation or whatever for like three weeks. And I think it's fun to doing about for like as a conversation or whatever for like three weeks and I think |
| 1:29.2 | it's fun to do because obviously for like ogy listeners at the beginning of the year we did a lot of kind |
| 1:34.5 | of these like um the trends that were happening kind of more now it's more just like there hasn't been |
| 1:41.2 | that many for a while I suppose I feel like people are just so sick of them but I feel like this one is a good one because it's quite a subtle trend. Right. I like them. I like, I don't like the articles that are like, what is? What's the one? I don't know. Any of these things. I think when it's like proper conversation about why these things arise. I find it interesting anyway. |
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