With so much pressure placed on marginalised people to advocate for their existence at all times in URL spaces, how can we make more room for joy online? 

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⁣This week on The Skin You're In we are joined by the incredible Maya Spencer-Berkeley, a model and disability activist. Maya told us all about her refusal to be a diversity hire, advocating for change in a meaningful way, and why she took a step back from sharing all parts of her condition — and life — online. Ione, Olivia, and Maya also chat about how fear of saying the wrong thing stops us from saying anything at all, what effective disability advocacy looks like, and whether things are really changing in the right direction.

This is the fourth episode of our brand new limited podcast series, The Skin You're In! Each week, for six weeks, we'll be exploring what it means to be alive today, and the biggest issues affecting our generation. From period poverty to body positivity, gender, disability, feminism and race, we want to know where the conversations are at, and what we can do to move them forward.

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The Skin You're In, a Polyester Podcast, is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl), in collaboration with Monki. Polyester is a self published culture zine exploring intersectional URL feminism in the IRL world. Have faith in your own bad taste! And follow us on Instagram!

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