The Sleepover Club: Why We're Sick Of 'In' And 'Out' Lists, And What They Say About Our Attitude To Micro-trends
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We're back! Did you miss us? This week Ione and Eden are discussing the trend that's dominated our Instagram feeds: In and Out lists. Written by everyone who's anyone; from Jemima Kirke and Hari Nef, to pretty much every influencer you've ever followed; the internet has become enamoured with notes app lists predicting what we will and won't enjoy in 2023. But do we really care what these people think? Or are they just away for us to flex our impeccable taste to our followers?
We're discussing how the trend feeds in to our obsessions with 'cores' and what those who love or hate the new (micro)trend cycle both get wrong about what it means for our cultural landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:03.3 | Hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. This is the first episode of the year. |
| 0:08.8 | Woo! I'm I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Eden and the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. |
| 0:18.5 | This is the Sleepburger Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull |
| 0:22.0 | apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. Before we get started, |
| 0:26.2 | please like, great review and subscribe. Ione, do we have any reviews? We do! This is five stars |
| 0:32.2 | stunning. These galleys keep me in the loop, make me have a giggle and keep me questioning myself. |
| 0:36.9 | I also shamelessly promote you to all my Melb, Aussie, girls and boys. |
| 0:41.0 | P.S. I'd love to hear some stuff regarding the trending decolonisation discourse. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm an Indigenous Studies major from Australia, and I'm super curious what that's looking like in the UK. |
| 0:51.0 | Here it feels very faux slash wakewashing for the whites to get some brownie points without having to do anything. |
| 0:56.4 | It's just another conversation piece that is by Gig Get 666 in Australia. And yeah, I feel like |
| 1:02.6 | Indigenous discourse isn't that much here because like it's way more US, North America and |
| 1:08.9 | Australia thing and other places thing. But I feel like some people |
| 1:12.4 | do it, but we definitely don't have the whole thing where it's like people put the like indigenous |
| 1:16.4 | name of places in their bio and stuff, which I've seen in American people. Yeah. Yeah, it's a weird one. |
| 1:21.7 | I guess we've been here for too long. But I definitely agree that it probably is just a conversation piece for some people. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | Or something to put in their bio, like you said, and be a good hashtag ally. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, exactly, exactly. |
| 1:34.9 | So what are you talking about today? |
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