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😇😇😇 read my book
🧡 Wellness is oppressive
🧡 Self-love is a trap
🧡 Hustling is a health risk
And it's all the patriarchy's fault.
@ionegamble
's Poor Little Sick Girls is THE book for femmes who want more from activism and life.
Get your copy now:
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Nine years ago I started a zine not knowing anything and now London is plastered in posters of our latest covers 🥹
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Literally have never done this before but now one month overdue (on a 60 day payment term which is unethical anyway imo!!) on a
@RollingStoneUK
invoice with all communication now being ignored 🫠🫠🫠 love to be a writer
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People saying we're more unethical than your fave tory rag while i hand package zines to send out :-) have fun with mr murdoch!!!
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Lived laughed and loved chatting to
@Rachel_Sennott
for this months
@PolyesterZine
💚💗
Shes literally incredible in
@bodiesbodies
and a Scorpio rising like moi - what is not to love
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STUNS!!!! Creative direction by moi
Melissa Barrera stuns on the cover of Polyester Magazine.
📸: Kirt Barnett
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I can’t believe I’m typing this but... I’m writing a book! Poor Little Sick Girls is coming summer 2022! Thank you so much to
@SharLovegrove
and
@dialoguebooks
for believing in me and to
@kateeevans
for being the best agent I could hope for. PINCH ME!
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Could not be more in love with this months
@PolyesterZine
Dollhouse cover 🌔
@creepyyeha_
shot by
@IsraelRiqueros
and profiled by
@emmaedavidson
Full feature here!
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❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Eden Young fellowship to mentor aspiring working-class journalist
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MY BOOK HAS A COVER 😭 Thank you so much
@pollynor
for bringing Poor Little Sick Girls to life 🧡 Out May 26th 2022 - and you can preorder now!!
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All the best women spend ‘too much’ time in bed: me for
@broadly
on Viv Albertine’s, Joan Didion’s, and my own relationship with chronic illness and rest -
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Do NOT even have the words!!!!! Gemma Collins for Polyester!! I am DEAD!!!! Get your copy here:
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Christmas cover of my dreams…
@ameliadimz
for
@PolyesterZine
x
@MaisonValentino
❤️❤️🎄 So proud of this!! Read the full feature here:
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Hello good afternoon fuck Terry Richardson and fuck the publications / brands that have continued to hire him over the last 5-10 years 🙃
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Poor Little Sick Girls billboards coming to a city near you!! 😭😭 thank you
@emilygmoran
@dialoguebooks
for making my dreams come true 😩
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Quite literally will never recover from
@Courtney
quoting on Poor Little Sick Girls. Literally pinch me what the actual hell 😭
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Launching possibly one of the most exciting
@PolyesterZine
projects this week - HOT VAMP SUMMER! And our first cover star is the iconic Ziwe ❤️
Register to receive the full content drop straight to your inbox (& through your postbox if you're in the UK!)
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Absolutely ecstatic to be launching Crypts - a new
@PolyesterZine
IGTV series where we find out what home looks like for our favourite people; mouldy bathrooms, cursed objects, shit landlords & all. ☠️ First up is
@arrowdewilde
of
@thestarcrawler
:
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TRISHA FOR POLYESTER!!!! Creative by meee!!!!
🌟
@trishapaytas
invented the internet, and now she's our cover star 🌟
In conversation with Jordan Firstman, Trisha talks everything mukbangs to one woman shows to being the star of all pockets of the internet over the years.
Read all about it:
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I am the girl with the most cake 🍰 My book is out! Too many people to thank so let me start with
@dialoguebooks
-
@SharLovegrove
@MaisieFrances
@millieseaward
@amymaereads
@celestewb
& my agent
@kateeevans
. Now I’m gonna go nurse my hangover. Thank you for everything 💝
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In an absolutely wild turn of events I’m featured in this months
@Tatlermagazine
as a ‘New Debutante’ - and yes I will be spamming this photo everywhere forevermore.
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Wrote an essay about femininity, grossness, beauty and illness for the
@ObsMagazine
out today - not online yet so get a copy 🫡 Thank you
@EvaWiseman
for the dream commission 💗
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Pleased to be joining
@Dazed
Beauty as contributing editor!
Have you heard? The London-based youth media brand is launching a new platform: Dazed Beauty.
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New
@PolyesterZine
podcast day! Absolutely ecstatic to have
@melissabroder
talking to
@hiyalauren
about the void and her absolutely brilliant novel The Pisces. Listen here:
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Look how cute Poor Little Sick Girls is in paperback 🥹 feels surreal that the book exists at all so very excited to see it out in the world in this form - next week!! 2nd March!!
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Proofs of Poor Little Sick Girls are here 😭😭 Equal amounts of terrified and excited that people will be reading it soon!! Pls pre order if you feel so inclined apparently it is v helpful to authors 💗💗
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Also this isn’t even 60 days from invoicing it’s 60 days from magazine publishing date so have been waiting over 90 days for this?
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Hiya it’s cupcakke on the cover of my zine and I am so excited to launch
💞 LET THEM EAT CUPCAKKE! 💞 Thrilled to announce
@cupcakkeafreakk
as our first issue eight cover girl. Shot by
@ladyist
. Available to pre-order now:
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Looking for people to rent desks in our
@polyesterzine
studio! SE15 near queens road Peckham - we have a conversation pit !!! Desk based work preferred but would also suit a photog as has a photo studio. Dm me!!
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It’s my birthday! I’m 27! And I’m still absolutely overwhelmed with all of the amazing response to Poor Little Sick Girls thank you all so much 🥺 Feeling very grateful despite the world being shit 🥂
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Hey
@kathleenhanna
Nice to meet you last night after the show! I gave you some copies of my zine, Polyester and you said to tweet you. Thank you so so much for an amazing show and hope you enjoy the zines, I would love to feature you one day ♥️
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@imogen_braddick
can you not write an article about my dead best friend. The sun are fucking scum and would hate this. Cheers x
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Signing off final pages from my (covid) sick bed 🏩 can’t believe the book is real! And that it’s coming out in a few months! Pre order Poor Little Sick Girls!!
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Physical copies of our Hot Vamp Summer zine arrived today 😭😭 and if you’re UK based you can’t get a copy for free! So proud of this issue 💕
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Wrote about how language censorship is feeding into sex negative sentiment amongst gen z for
@Dazed
🤟🏻
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just checked my invoice date and its been over 18 weeks since i invoiced :-)
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Holly for polyester can you believe ❤️
Introducing our April cover star, television royalty Holly Madison 🌹
Talking Lethally Blonde, Y2K fashion, demystifying sex work and lots more, we're digging deep with the inimitable
@hollymadison
❤️
💋 See the full feature: 💋
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Loved profiling Sophie Thatcher for this months
@PolyesterZine
digi cover 💐 We chatted about obsession, meeting the ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald, her secret pre-teen tumblr fame and of course
@yellowjackets96
🐝 Read here:
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The one and only Nosebleed Fitz is this months
@polyesterzine
Dollhouse cover star! s/o to
@GlNATONIC
for producing her first cover,
@mitchell_severs
for the stunning portraits,
@lipglosslezza
for the gorge glam &
@harrisonjbrock
for the fab profile. 💕
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Ok I am SO SO excited about this!
@sexeducation
’s Aimee Lou Wood and her sister Emily are the April cover stars for our newsletter! 💗 Ft. Makeup tutorials, baby videos, sisterly secrets and much more —
@polyesterzine
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Promoting weight loss procedures on a site claiming to be the feature of beauty seems like a WEIRD call imo
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Really loved talking to Petra Collins about tumblr feminism’s place in art history for
@Dazed
’s end of decade campaign ♥️♥️
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Poor Little Sick Girls is out in paperback! I feel so grateful that
@dialoguebooks
and
@SharLovegrove
gave me the space to write the book I wanted to; devoid of watered down neoliberal bullshit, illustrating my love for feminism while tracing how we've gone wrong w/ fourth wave
OUT NOW IN GORGEOUS PAPERBACK AND AVAILABLE FOR 99p ON KINDLE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF MARCH 💌
Grab a paperback and a tote from
@TypeLeeds
while stocks last ♥️
#PoorLittleSickGirls
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BBC pls commission
@louistheroux
at home with Bey & Jay he's the only one with the power to discover who Becky with the good hair really is
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Emma Seligman for Polyester!!! 😭😭😭
“The intention was to make something raunchy and bloody for queer teen audiences. I'm getting sick of the tragic stuff, especially when queerness is the plot.”
Our latest cover just landed with Bottoms and Shiva Baby director Emma Seligman! 🏈
Read here:
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Omg! So happy for
@PolyesterZine
to be featured in this months
@NylonMag
💞 Lots of luv 2
@jadextaylor
go get a copy!
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Me on lockdown loneliness, friendships, and existing as a high risk person for
@VICEUK
- thank you my angel
@hiyalauren
for giving me the space to articulate these feelings 💓
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One of the most stressful things about this crisis is having the reality that disabled lives are valued less (and tbh not valued at all) laid out in no uncertain terms, absolutely terrifying and awful. Please sign this:
tw: extreme ableism
disabled people are now receiving gp letters suggesting they opt for dnr (do not resuscitate). no words. please sign & share this urgent petition to the govt that disabled people not be left to die — disabled lives are not worth less
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Love you Eden <3 One of the most important projects we have ever done / will do <3 wish you were here to see it
To honour the legacy of our close friend, managing editor and podcast host Eden, we're launching a fellowship in her name. To raise funds, we've collaborated with those close to Eden and creatives from our community to launch a raffle.
More info here:
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Lol got asked to curate an exhibition inside this building for the launch - company worth 2.7 billion and they offered me... 500 quid 🤨
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So proud of our feature with Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry out today!
@GlNATONIC
& I interviewed her for the pod (& found out her most iconic lines were improv!) accompanied by an absolutely gorgeous editorial (these are just my silly bts pics)
@polyesterzine
:
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Reflected on fourth wave aesthetics, class-free feminism and femininity as perceived weakness for
@dazed
✌🏻️💅🏻
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Just say fat challenge
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Big Poor Little Sick Girls extract in the latest
@RollingStoneUK
print and online with my very serious author photos 😈😈
Thank you baby
@hannahrosewens
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So the zines have now launched and I’m extremely excited to call
@Courtney
a
@PolyesterZine
contributor! Courtney penned an essay on the importance of rage, finding the peace within it, what real change looks like & more 💫✨
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Spoke to
@i_D
about starting a zine, Tory cuts to education and the drama of trying to get paid ✌🏻️💖
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We’ve just launched the
@PolyesterZine
queer creative fund! 💝 Offering one visual artist a £1500 project grant, polyester digital cover, podcast episode, mentoring and more. Full details and apply here!
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I got to see my book in a shop window for the first time!! 🥹 in the place I grew up!! 🥹 doesn’t feel real luv
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Never thought I would make a zine about BOYS 🤢 But I’ve actually loved every minute of it:
THE SECOND COVER OF OUR 5TH BIRTHDAY ZINES IS HERE FEAT.
@BennyDRAMA7
😍
Non-Threatening Boys* is a real life recreation of the iconic teen magazine that Lisa has in The Simpsons 💋
💪🏻 A critical look at modern masculinity!
Pre-order available now:
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Lol no contact from them but they’ve paid. As someone that also runs a publication it should never come to this, don’t commission what you can’t afford! Also had loads of replies & seems I’m not the only one, so good luck to you all & never take a commission from them again ❤️
Literally have never done this before but now one month overdue (on a 60 day payment term which is unethical anyway imo!!) on a
@RollingStoneUK
invoice with all communication now being ignored 🫠🫠🫠 love to be a writer
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Thank you
@ted_stansfield
and
@AnOtherMagazine
for featuring
@PolyesterZine
’s Hot Vamp Summer issue! ❤️🔥
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Anyone thats read Poor Little Sick Girls will know i'm OBSESSED with the beauty standards of this era and how they link to sickness - can't wait to chat 😈
We're heading to a Late at
@Tate
Britain this Friday!
@ionegamble
and
@edenyoung__
are hosting a talk exploring how the male gaze and sexism has impacted our readings of the Rossettis and the Pre-Raphaelites with
@zaraafthab
.
More details -
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Hiya its me 🤙🏻 Writing on the revolution from Riot Grrrl to modern day zines and why we need to start investing in new publications. Thanks
@hannahrosewens
♥️
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‘Folklore is radical’ is one of my fave quotes ever from the pod tbh - loved this chat with
@EmmaDabiri
✨
Do you believe in ghosts? 🔮 This week on the podcast
@EmmaDabiri
tells us why folklore and ghost stories are more vital now than ever before:
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Profiled
@pollynor
for
@WeTransfer
- I love Polly so much there was about two hours of unused transcript in this piece. I wanna write her biography pls:
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Spoke to
@CreativeReview
about five years of
@PolyesterZine
!
As
@PolyesterZine
celebrates its 5th birthday with four new publications, CR speaks to founding Editor-in-Chief
@ionegamble
about bad taste, bucking expectations, and creating the antithesis of your average women’s mag
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I can’t believe it!!! Thank you thank you ❤️😭
.
@jeffreykboakye
,
@KojoKoram
and
@ionegamble
are among the authors shortlisted for the £500 Bread & Roses Award for radical left-wing political non-fiction, presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.
Read more 👇
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Love to see them attempting to criticise us by misquoting the saltburn podcast episode while not linking out to it so people can’t check for themselves xoxo
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pitch us!!!!!
looking for pop culture & personal essay pitches for
@PolyesterZine
‼️
info on contributing here:
my direct email is: gina.tonic
@polyesterzine
.com 💋
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Our first cover of the year! Obsessed
Hello beautiful dove!🕊️ Our February cover star is the legendary Mina Le.
@doeeeyes
sat down with the social media fashion historian to discuss 2010s Tumblr, finding your people online and the halcyon days of Insta fashion blogging 💕
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The
@PolyesterZine
July newsletter is here! I’m so proud of this one ft. A roundtable of Black, disabled / chronically ill creatives,
@freeblackuni
, Gia Ford & Melanie Lehmann, amazing photo shoots and loads more:
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I interviewed
@rosemcgowan
for the newest episode of the podcast! Still pinching myself about this tbh, listen below 💗
💖 𝒩𝐸𝒲 𝐸𝒫𝐼𝒮𝒪𝒟𝐸!! 💖 In a special instalment of the podcast, we talk to activist, artist, author and actress
@rosemcgowan
. Listen on iTunes here:
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😇😇 Here I am talking about Polyester cos can't stop won't stop
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Starting the decade in my bedroom referencing Petra’s work in my own A Level coursework - and going on to start Polyester based on the art I was seeing on Tumblr; felt like a nice full circle moment to reflect on the era with Petra for this piece 🥰
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Wrote about how
@RookieMag
inspired a whole generation of women to create things, and why we need to ensure independent publishing endures, for
@i_D
. Thank you for asking me
@rosielanners
♥️
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Being considered ‘too much’ is probably something I worry about way too often - from sending risky texts, to hangxiety and so much more. This weeks pod discusses why so many of us feel the same way:
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When i see yet another corporate funded girl gang co-opting feminism to further their own careers
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Now Bikini Kill are reuniting would anyone please like to commission me to interview them just putting this out into the world thank you very much
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Last night
@PolyesterZine
x
@BarbicanCentre
🫶🏻 Contextualising the Carloee Schneemann retrospective in the present day w/
@EmmaDabiri
, curator Lotte Johnson, Lindsey Mendick and
@zaraafthab
✨
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I'm in this weeks
@ESMagOfficial
! Named one of 12 coolest Londoners lol COOL pick one up today/tomoz wewwww
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This is very sad and this editors letter is so true, and depressing, and how I feel a lot of the time about polyester and the media. All love to
@tavitulle
for creating something important to so many of us ♥️
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Tomorrow night 6pm me and
@GlNATONIC
are chatting to
@missgemcollins
about our
@polyesterzine
Hot Vamp Summer zine on Clubhouse - join us !!
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Obsessed with our
@polyesterzine
x Hot Lava merch collaboration!! Also the long sleeve is thermal which tbh is already a godsend im absolutely freezing
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