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You might be more influenced by yuppie taste than you’d think.Back in the eighties – when pop music drowned in synths, the volume of everyone's hair was set to loud, and neon was in vogue – a new age dawned: the era of the yuppie. “Yuppie” comes from the acronym “YUP” – which sta ...  عرض المزيد

How has literature changed your life?For poet and lawyer, Reginald Dwaye Betts, books meant freedom. After getting sentenced to 9 years in adult prison at 16, Dwayne felt a sense of hope and possibility whenever he was reading. Upon his release he founded Freedom Reads, an organi ...  عرض المزيد

THE SUMMER BONANZA BEGINS. podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat: spiralling on unrealistic and unattainable beauty standards, the evolution of mainstream media, and the normalised patriarchal language used about women's bodies. ✷

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How has Photoshop, social media and modern advertising altered the meaning of beauty? Cristen interviews beauty scholar Autumn Whitefield-Madrono of The Beheld about 21st-century beauty and how it intersects with technology and feminism.

podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat: spiralling on the reality of influencer culture, being perceived, self-image, mental health narratives, nepo babies, beauty standards, representation, comparison, and the creation and consumption cycle. ✷

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podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat: spiralling on comparison and fomo, aesthetics and the pressure to be perceived, influencer culture, gendered stereotypes and insecurity online. ✷

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