The Sleepover Club: Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Representation Politics Again?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Representation discourse is back baby! From Ariel and Lizzo's Emmy win, to the queen being a woman, and our third evil prime minister; we're all obsessed with diversity yet again!
For a brief moment in time, it felt like we'd left representation politics in the past. They'd we'd all come to a consensus that diversity discourse was pointless, serving as a shiny veneer to allow un-inclusive institutions to cover their backs and seem as though they were pushing for societal change. Now they're back, and Halima, Ione and Eden are asking why we're so content on accepting the bare minimum.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Haleima. Hi, Iani. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm |
| 0:05.8 | I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester and I'm the author of Poor Little Sit Girls, which is |
| 0:11.9 | available now. And I'm Haleema, the community editor, policy, and the co-st of Polyester podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | 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. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. Annie, do you have any reviews to read out this week, do we? No. Oh. Dun, dun, dun, done. I remembered from last week when you were like, we did this our last one? And I was like, damn. |
| 0:38.5 | We need more. |
| 0:39.5 | We do need more. |
| 0:40.4 | So everyone, please give us to review. |
| 0:42.3 | Exactly. |
| 0:43.7 | Halema, we have some news. |
| 0:45.2 | We do have some news. |
| 0:46.3 | I am going to university. |
| 0:49.3 | So I will be leaving the podcast. |
| 0:52.7 | Wee. |
| 0:55.5 | But yeah, it's been a pleasure. |
| 0:57.3 | I've loved every minute. |
| 0:58.5 | I've loved all the comments and the pushback we've gotten over the years. |
| 1:02.8 | I actually saw, there's a whole thing on Twitter at the minute about people being like, |
| 1:07.8 | it's so much better to live with other people. |
| 1:09.5 | And I was thinking, did we not say that and get so much fucking hate for it? Yeah. I was like, you know, I'm not |
| 1:15.5 | going to say this to the irony right now. We don't need any more things to be annoyed about at the |
| 1:18.9 | minute. So, Halima, you're hit to pass the baton. And who are you passing it to? |
| 1:24.6 | Idon. Hello. Thanks for passing the baton. |
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