The Sleepover Club: The Limits Of Lived Experiences - Should Marginalised People Be The Only Ones To Tell Their Stories?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lived experience is a debate that comes up time and time again in our cultural landscape - should only gay people play gay roles on-screen? Should white people be able to tell people of colours stories? And should non-disabled people be allowed to portray those with disability? This week Ione and Halima are discussing this article, and all of the discourse surrounding our lived experiences.
We're talking about whether the lived experience argument is based in fact, or is merely a myth conjured by those more privileged who feel oppressed by the limits of storytelling. And why instead of focusing on this age-old debate, we should draw our focus towards ways of actually letting our voices be heard.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:00.9 | Hi, Iione. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Aioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online Imprint everywhere else |
| 0:09.0 | and author of Poor Little Sick Girls, which you should pre-order. |
| 0:13.6 | And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-os of the Polyester Podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull |
| 0:22.2 | apart the hashtag discourse in the hopes of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, |
| 0:26.7 | please like, rate, review and subscribe. And in very exciting news, we have a review today. |
| 0:35.6 | From Cunterella, I think, although the U is starred out, it is five stars. |
| 0:41.1 | Why does this podcast not have five stars? |
| 0:43.4 | All I could ask for from a podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | The best mix of pop culture, politics and silliness. |
| 0:48.5 | The topics always feel current and satisfy an itch I needed to scratch. |
| 0:52.2 | I only and her guest hosts ask the right questions that other journalists don't. |
| 0:56.5 | And the content is always clever and informative without being pretentious. |
| 1:00.1 | Feels like you're chatting with your mates, but your really cool ones, 10 out of 10 would |
| 1:03.8 | recommend. |
| 1:04.7 | Period. |
| 1:05.5 | So leave us some more reviews so we can have our ego boosted and read them out. |
| 1:11.6 | Halima has had her ego boosted up to the skies already this morning. |
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