Happy Thursday, Dolls!

This week we’re exploring the beauty of the femme fatale, the surge of books focusing on feminist Greek mythology and lots more! Lets get into it…

THE POLYESTER PODCAST

The Sleepover Club: How Ozempic Killed Body Positivity And Why We Need Gross Girls More Than Ever (Opens in a new window)

As the remnants of fourth wave feminism cling on for dear life, it's become impossible to ignore the idea that we're now living through a post-feminist era. In the 10 months since the release of our host Ione Gamble's debut Poor Little Sick Girls, body positivity has died, #MeToo is non-existent and the discourse has stripped any semblance of nuance from online life. This week, Ione and Eden discuss where feminism goes from here, why we should all be less scared of being cancelled, and why earnestness is the only thing that can save us all.

Why Are So Many New Books Feminist Retellings of Greek Myths? (Opens in a new window)

The great girlboss-ification of the Greek Myth… Natalie Wall explores our obsession with rehashing, retelling and rewriting history from a feminist perspective in this essay.

Drop Dead Gorgeous: The Extreme Glamour and Ultra-Femininity of the Cinematic Evil Woman (Opens in a new window)

Slender fingers with long nails, siren eyes and a dark lip, stocking and suspender-clad legs, sheer and suggestive negligee, dramatic eyewear and phallic cigarette holders; this is the uniform of the cinematic Evil Woman. Rosie Carter celebrates the iconic evil ladies of our screens.

Queer Whore Collective: For International Women’s Day We Demand Erotic Equity (Opens in a new window)

Founder of Sex and Rage, a sex worker and activist led organisation resisting stigma and shame through sex education, Black Venus discusses the importance of conversations on sex in this essay.

Ice Crimes is Requesting a Video Call (Opens in a new window)

Eden Young chats with Iman Muse aka Ice Crimes, the Somali-American journalist, DJ, programmer, music manager, producer and now a world class interviewer on her new YouTube series The Ice Crimes Show!

Come On Lavinia Co-Op’s Queer London Tour with Us (Opens in a new window)

Donna Marcus interviews Lavinia Co-Op, the radical queer performer, on drag, their new film, how East London has changed and more!

SOLA is Celebrating Female Loneliness (Opens in a new window)

SOLA is the stunning editorial which looks at time spent alone with sentimentality and nostalgia as apposed to perceiving aloneness as boredom, being unaccomplished and isolated.

See ya next week!

XOXO,

The Polyester Team <3