The Sleepover Club: We Need To Stop Normalising Things

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Twitter is obsessed with normalising things. From the benign, such as normalising going to the cinema alone, to the vaguely political such as normalise body hair, right up to the extremes of social justice; if there's an issue, we want to normalise it. But does condensing our problems into this meme-esque format really do anything to push things forward? Or when we plea to the internet for a normalisation, are we really just trying to signal how tuned we are to the issues that matter?

This week Ione and Halima how the trend of normalising things is really just feeding into our obsession with individualism and actually breaking down any hopes we have of collective liberation.

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0:00.0	Hi, Haleema. Hi, Oni. And hello to the listeners, especially hello to Lily Borg, who loved a
0:05.5	beautiful review, which I will read out in a second. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm
0:10.4	Ioni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester online, in print and everywhere else.
0:14.5	And I'm Helima, the community editor of the polyester. We release weekly episodes with
0:20.4	The Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions
0:22.6	the next. This week it is the Sleepover Club where Halima and I have all those gorgeous
0:27.1	conversations you'd usually have at Sleepover and then in a while we will have an
0:31.3	obsessions episode where we talk to someone we admire about something they're obsessed with
0:35.8	that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. Hello, Halima. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Iani. And here is a
0:43.5	lovely thing to start the new year on. A five-star review all the way from Germany, which is very
0:49.8	nice. Five stars, I only recently started listening to podcasts at all. And since I've been
0:54.8	following on Insta for quite a while, I thought why not check out Polyestazine's podcast too.
0:59.2	It's honestly super relaxing listening to you guys. The topics are always very interesting and up to date.
1:04.3	And aside from thinking about serious topics, you sometimes really make me laugh too. Your content
1:08.8	is really relatable. Keep up the good work,
1:17.1	looking forward to every episode. So cute. How cute? I love it. Watch New Year's Resolution,
1:21.1	Halima. One of my New Year's resolutions will see better as a podcast and I'm failing.
1:29.3	You're not. There's still time. There's still time. I said, I'm a community editor of the polyester podcast. We don't even say it. I will get better, guys, I promise. What's your news resolution
1:35.4	though? I don't have any. Oh, wow. That's fine too. I haven't really thought about it.
1:41.7	Normalized not having news resolutions.
1:45.5	Yay!
1:45.9	Which brings us to what is the topic today, Halima?
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