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Remember when Kim Kardashian invented butts? Paper Magazine sure would like us to. When they released their scintillating cover issue of Kim K in a sequinned dress, balancing a champagne glass on her formidable silicone buttocks, Paper Mag declared: “Break the Internet Kim Kardashian” And break it she did. In this episode, Hannah and Maia trace Kim Kardashian’s transformation from trashy reality star to fashionista de jour. Since the Paper cover, and with the help of Kanye West, Kim’s body has become the subject of a twisted performance art. But it’s also generated controversy - creating unhealthy trends, grifting from the natural features of Black women, and now disappearing into what we everyone has deemed a “skinny renaissance”. Digression includes: Maia getting riled up about Timothée and Kylie’s fabled romantic union.
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SOURCES
Joe Zee, “In Defense of Kim Kardashian and the Editors of Paper Magazine and Why This Cover Makes Sense” (12/11/14), Yahoo
Jake Hall, “exploring the complicated relationship between jean-paul goude and grace jones”, (21/04/16) i-D
David Hershkovits, “How Kim KArdashian broke the Internet with her butt” (17/12/14), The Guardian
Blue Telusma “Kim Kardashian doesn’t realize she’s the butt of an old racial joke” (12/11/14), the grio
Justin Parkinson, “The Significance of Sarah Baartman” (07/01/16), BBC
Janell Hobson, “Remnants of Venus: Signifying Black Beauty and Sexuality” (2018), Women’s studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press
Nolan Feeney, “Anna Wintour Implies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not ‘Deeply Tasteful’”. (19/11/14)
Cleo Gould, “From silicone implants and fat transfers to bubble butts and a high mortality rate, we investigate whether the BBL is the most dangerous cosmetic surgery of all” (2019), Dazed
Rachel Tashjian, “How Jennifer Lopez’s Versace Dress Created Google Images” (2019), GQ.
John Ortved, “Paper Magazine, The Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ (2023), The New York Times
Eric Wilson, “Kim Kardashian Inc.” (17/11/2010), The New York Times.
Natasha Singer, “The democratization of plastic surgery” (2007), The New York Times,
Harper Franklin “1810-1819” (18/08/2020) Fashion History Timeline, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Grace O’Neill, “How Kimye Changed Fashion Forever”, Grazia Magazine.
Rebecca Jennings, “The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt”, 2021, Vox.
Cady Lang, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians Is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Women’s Aesthetics Continues”, (10/06/21), Time.
Kylie Gilbert, “Backing Away from BBLs” (11/08/22), InStyle
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Cover this podcast in prayers, because in this highly-requested episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the most political event on the internet to date: Tati Westbrook’s public disowning of James Charles. In this clashing of beauty guru titans, 38-year-old Tati Westbrook disavowed her 19-year old friend and mentee, James Charles… over a bunch of hair vitamins. But hindsight reveals that Tati may not have been working alone, and that Bye Sister may never have been about vitamins all along. Tea and squabbles abound, this event may have brought an end to the beauty guru regime… for good! Digressions include: a reopening of the case on “grooming”, Hannah and Maia’s “would you, an alt man, date Kylie Jenner” poll, the horror of naming a fanbase, and Rehash’s declaration of war against another… very famous… podcast.
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Intro and outro song by our talent friend Ian Mills:
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SOURCES:
Valeriya Safronova, “James Charles, From ‘CoverBoy’ to Canceled” The New York Times (2019).
Jean Kelso Sandlin and Monica L. Gracyalny, “Fandom, forgiveness and future support: YouTube apologies as crisis communication” Journal of Communication Management Vol. 24 (1) (2020).
Rachel Strugatz, "The Morphe Beauty Saga Isn’t Pretty” The New York Times (2022).
Elizabeth Whitehead, “An Awkward Look at the Excessive Makeup Trend of the 2010s” Punkee (2022).
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It's time to talk about the most misunderstood word in the Tiktok lexicon :( gatekeeping! Hannah and Maia dive into the history of the word, its sinister origins and the way it now bursts out of our mouths every time someone doesn't give us what we want, the moment we want it. Join us and extra special guest Rayne as we digress about the death of subcultures, the Supreme™ brick, the bouncer at Berghain, and the ever-overlooked qu∊∊f community!
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Intro and outro song produced by our talented friend Ian Mills:
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SOURCES:
Sirena Bergman, “The internet really hates 'gatekeeping,' social media's new go-to insult. The truth is you're probably a gatekeeper, too.” Insider (2022).
Kurt Lewin, “Frontiers in Group Dynamics: Channels of Group Life; Social Planning and Action Research” Human Relations, Vol. 1 (2) (1947).
Pamela J. Shoemaker, Gatekeeping Theory, Taylor & Francis (2009).
Courtney Young, “What Does “Gatekeeping” Mean On TikTok? The Viral Term, Explained.” Bustle (2022).
