The Sleepover Club: Society Of The Spectacle And How Filming Strangers For Content Became Common Practise

The Sleepover Club: Society Of The Spectacle And How Filming Strangers For Content Became Common Practise

Open TikTok and your for you page is likely filled with a slew of content capitalising on the lives of strangers without their consent. From random acts of kindness, to asking what someone walking past is listening to or simply starting to record when watching someone behave strangely in public; we're constantly seeking new spectacle to record on our phones in the hope of going viral. On this week's episode, Ione and Eden are discussing the moral ambiguity of building an online following using the unsuspecting public.


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The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part Two - The Emergence Of 'Dissociative Feminism'

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part Two - The Emergence Of 'Dissociative Feminism'

It's part two of the 'toxic' women deep dive! This week we're discussing the backlash against the 'evil' women genre and how the TikTok girlies are catapulting our obsession with these characters into...

31 Jan 202224min

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part One - Why We Love 'Evil' Women

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part One - Why We Love 'Evil' Women

'Evil' women are everywhere, from on our screens, to between the pages of the books we read, and across our feeds in the form of memes. The discourse as to whether these characters are idol worthy, or...

23 Jan 202225min

The Sleepover Club: Everything Gen Z Gets Wrong About Indie Sleaze

The Sleepover Club: Everything Gen Z Gets Wrong About Indie Sleaze

Haven't you heard? Indie Sleaze is back! Dig out the coloured tights, find your old American Apparel hoodies and dust off your old copies of NME. This week we're joined by Polyester socials editor Ed...

17 Jan 202229min

The Sleepover Club: We Need To Stop Normalising Things

The Sleepover Club: We Need To Stop Normalising Things

Twitter is obsessed with normalising things. From the benign, such as normalising going to the cinema alone, to the vaguely political such as normalise body hair, right up to the extremes of social ju...

10 Jan 202224min

Obsessions: Why Amelia Dimoldenberg Loves The England Squad

Obsessions: Why Amelia Dimoldenberg Loves The England Squad

For our last episode of the year, we're joined by the genius Amelia Dimoldenberg to talk us through her love of the England football team. From how the 2021 Euros set her obsession alight, to how her ...

20 Dec 202132min

The Sleepover Club: The Yassification Of The Internet

The Sleepover Club: The Yassification Of The Internet

Over the past few weeks, the internet has been overrun with yassified edits of our faves. Perhaps you've seen Toni Collette with smoothed out skin, Fiona from Shrek sporting a gorgeous smokey eye, or ...

13 Dec 202121min

The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Rest With Kieran Yates And Maggie Matić

The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Rest With Kieran Yates And Maggie Matić

The second part of our limited run podcast series The Skin You're In is here! Recorded live in London, Ione is joined by journalist Kieran Yates and writer/researcher Maggie Matić.They'll be discussin...

4 Nov 202146min

The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Creativity with Melanie Lehmann and Ben Pechey

The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Creativity with Melanie Lehmann and Ben Pechey

Recorded live in Sheffield, My Skin, My Creativity is the first of a limited two episode run our podcast series exploring modern identity.Our deputy editor Gina Tonic sat down with photographer Melani...

28 Okt 202137min

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