The Sleepover Club: Ione's Book, Poor Little Sick Girls, is here!
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week Ione is in the hot seat, as she sits down for an interview with our one and only Halima to dish all the deets about her debut non-fiction book, Poor Little Sick Girls! Exploring how Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fault, Halima and Ione delve into the process of writing the book that has been dubbed 'the anti girlboss bible'. The pair also discuss how we can pull feminism from the rubble of commodification, oversharing, representation of illness, and much more
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Halima. |
| 0:01.1 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Iioni, but I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-house of the Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense |
| 0:21.4 | of it all. |
| 0:22.0 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. |
| 0:25.1 | Do we have any reviews to read out this week on uni? |
| 0:27.4 | We absolutely do, Halima. |
| 0:29.3 | So 10 out of 10, 5 stars. |
| 0:33.2 | Thank you for being so intersectional. |
| 0:35.1 | I love how much you include class in your conversations where I feel like it is so often left out of the conversation. |
| 0:41.2 | Great, unique topics has been very nice to listen to from Kevin James Jorts in Canada. |
| 0:46.9 | Oh, lovely. |
| 0:47.8 | International. |
| 0:48.6 | Thank you, Kevin. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.2 | Nice. |
| 0:52.1 | What are we talking about this week, Ayeni? |
| 0:53.9 | I think you should tell us, Halima. This week, I'm interviewing Ayonnie Gamble about her debut book, Poor Little Sick Girls. Woo-woo-woo-woo. I had a pleasure of reading over the weekend, and I have formulated some thoughts and some questions about it. Okay. First of all, congratulations, Ayeney. This is a really brilliant book. I'm so proud of you. Thanks, Halema. I was getting so emotional. You're such a cow. But honestly, congrats. He did a fantastic job. Thank you. Okay. First and foremost, can you tell us a little bit about what poor Losa Girls is about for those who do not know. I'm sorry. I know you hate this question. I'm so bad at it. Okay, |
| 1:32.1 | poor little sick girls is a collection of essays that looks at contemporary feminism, social media, |
| 1:37.7 | the internet and other facets of social politics through the lens of me having chronic illness. |
| 1:44.1 | Amazing. Thank you. |
| 1:45.6 | My first question, like this first set of questions, |
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