Polyester Zine

3 weeks ago | polyesterzine.com | Lauren O'Neill

It's been a helluva week for the news cycle and our social feeds - Katy Perry's been on Amazon's first, girls only, space trip (for exactly 11 minutes), Aimee Lou Wood has taken to Instagram stories to call out an off colour joke about herself on Saturday Night Live and everyone has taken to ChatGPT to generate extremely specific and fairly ugly blister packed dolls of themselves. Stuck between which to cover, we decided to dig into it all.

1 month ago | polyesterzine.com | Lauren O'Neill

"I'm too pretty to work"."This face wasn't meant to know excel." "Looking for a man who doesn't want me to work." On the surface these adages are silly throwaways in the face of a late capitalist work culture that has made trying to make a living a literal hellscape - or are they? In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina take apart the trend of dreaming for a rich husband and reckon with a not too distant past where women's liberation was inherently linked with being financially independent.

Jan 2, 2025 | polyesterzine.com | Douglas Jardim

The ever so elusive white backdrop is any aspiring artist's go-to tool for many a reason; it's an age-old aesthetic that continues to stand the test of time. First impressions can be deceiving so the white background's canvas-like capabilities transcend medium with cost-effective bombast.

Aug 7, 2024 | polyesterzine.com | Lauren O'Neill

Men are given slightly different rules, and whilst of course they still face fatphobia, there are expectations in a way that women don’t get. Take Matty Matheson, famous chef and producer and actor in The Bear. I love Matty, he’s a vibrant addition to popular culture. He gets abuse for his weight, but it’s not comparable to the misogynistic abuse bigger women receive due to a lack of patriarchal privilege.

Aug 5, 2024 | polyesterzine.com | Lauren O'Neill

Last week, Polyester suffered a great injustice on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter as right wing journalists piled on our humble hosts for sharing a pitch call out. This week, Ione and Gina dissect the discourse surrounding publishing industry standards, the declining state of the media industry, and the need to be right on social media.