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

The girlies are going feral across the internet - on one hand, Lorde is calling ovulation the best drug she's ever taken. On the other, streams of TikTok's reveal that during ovulation many of us get uncontrollable horny. But is it true? Do out hormones control our libidos and cognition or do we have more free will than that?

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

Who'd have thought at the announcement of this year's Celebrity Big Brother cast that the two people being chatted about the most are Jojo Siwa and ex-Love Islander Chris Hughes. If you didn't know - the pair's intimate friendship in the house caused chaos on social media as many accused Jojo of emotionally cheating on her partner, the Neighbours actor Kath Ebbs.

1 month 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.