Made Of Human With Sofie Hagen

Sofie talks to Lou Conran about telling personal stories, being in the present, listening to your body, performing comedy at a baby loss awards ceremony, searching for her voice, being bullied at school, roast dinners, dying on stage, resilience and not mixing sweet and savory.Trigger warning – bereavement, losing a baby, loss, mental health issues, alcohol, dead babies, PTSD, flashbacks, therapy, bullying, meat eating, weight loss, hypnosis, body issues, diets, social anxietyArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Harriet Dyer about making comedy from mental health issues, childhood abuse, bereavement, being bipolar, creating community, (literally) thinking she was Kat Slater from Eastenders, establishing boundaries, having a lovely homelife and sea-monkeys.Trigger warning (Please note some of the language is visceral and descriptive) – child sexual abuse, rape, kidnapping, violence against children, drug use, death, alcohol use, dentist, suicide, bereavement, suicidal ideation, addiction, death, sectioning, medication, bipolar, violence against pets, stalking, mental health issues, abuse, gaslighting, sex.Artwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support

Sofie talks to Amy Gledhill about having a sunny disposition, comedy, Hull, gallows humour, feeling like you’ve gotten away with it, walking to Lady Gaga, having a happy childhood, men/love/sex, failure, mice living in her bed, Ikea furniture, getting more scared as you grow older and escaped snakes.Trigger warning – breakdowns, therapy, trauma, sex, bullying, street harassment. snakes, mice, drugs, death, bereavement, #metoo, sexual harassmentArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Da’Shaun Harrison about being a community organiser, growing up in North Carolina in poverty, being a music geek, structural violence, the murder of Mike Brown, Black Lives Matter, AUC Shut It Down, coming to understand themself as non binary and queer, and finding joy and comfort in their queer family.Trigger warning – poverty, racism, physical and emotional abuse, intimate partner violence, police/state violence, murder, police brutality, suicide, bereavement, religion, traumaArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Glamrou/Amrou Al-Kadhi about queer identity, muslim identity, race, being non-binary, forgiving their mother, going to Eton on a scholarship, queer readings of the Quran, Sufism, sex parties, marine biology, making the NB podcast and writing their book Unicorn: the memoir of a muslim drag queen.Trigger warning – racism, shootings, queerphobia, OCD, homophobia, rape, violence, religion, islamophobia, sex, shame, gender dysphoriaArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Smashlyn Monroe about performing sideshow, childhood trauma, how she got her name, tattoos, piercings, imposter syndrome, being queer, growing up in Foster care, how muggle jobs react to her look and believing Freddy Mercury was her dad.Trigger warning – ableism, “freak” show, bereavement, death, sexuality, therapy, trauma, abuse, fatphobia, depression, violenceArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Bethany Rutter about designing clothes, writing books, being a fat teenager, emotional rejection, sharing information about bad dates, sewing, privilege, fat representation, living in the golden age of plus sized fashion and her novel No Big Deal. Trigger warning – OCD, fatphobia, anxiety, stigma, humiliation, sex, weight loss  Artwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

In part two of a two-part conversation Sofie talks to Your Fat Friend about interacting with thin people, strategies for social change, troll storms, dating while fat, internalised anti-fatness, the upsides of being a fat person, the fat community, vulnerability and fat representation.Trigger warning – childhood trauma, street harassment, bullying, suicide, fatphobia, shame, the diet/weight loss industry, street harassmentArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

In part one of a two part conversation Sofie talks to Your Fat Friend about being an anonymous essayist and very fat person online, being both invisible and hypervisible, anti-fat culture, fat activism, different cultural attitudes to fat people, navigating thin fragility and the body positivity movement.Trigger warning – violence, murder, online abuse, menstruation, death threats, rape threats, doxxing, stalking, the diet/weight loss industry, death, fatphobia, eating disordersArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Stewart Lee about 30 years of stand-up comedy, being a parent, reckless behavior, the character of Stewart Lee, having a different childhood to the one people imagine, clown theory, obscure '70s musicians, not being recognised and being described as the greatest living comedian.Trigger warning – violence, being mugged, mental health issues, death threats, adoption, divorceArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Jamie Windust about modeling, writing, crafting their look, being called brave, gender identity, queerness, coming out as non-binary, navigating public space when you’re gender nonconforming, giving talks, being funny and getting their haircut. Trigger warning – sex, scat, harassment, assault, microaggressions Artwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Sara Barron about stand-up comedy, navigating true stories, jealousy, relationships, moving to the UK, being a viable adult, parenthood, funny sex stories, how she got together with her husband and being a big farter.Trigger warning – fertility issues, abortion, infidelity, sexArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Alice Fraser about writing a trilogy of personal comedy shows, her unusual upbringing, her mother's illness and death, people pleasing, making trouble, having a grandmother who was a holocaust survivor, buddhism, moments of kindness, epigenetics and holding her identity loosely.Trigger warning – bereavement, death, MS, cancer, the holocaust, violence against children, bullying, suicide, traumaArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to RoxXxan about being a tomboy, navigating the music industry as a young gay rapper from Birmingham, experiencing homelessness, teaching spin class, the Jamaican Rastafarian and Irish Catholic parts of her heritage, spirituality, Crystals, astrology and her new music project: For HerTrigger warning – homelessness, brief mention of someone else’s experience of child sexual abuse, trauma, slavery, racism, homophobia, violence, debt collection, depression, mental health issues, bereavementArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Sameena Zehra about non violence, imaginary worlds, imaginary friends, justice, tribalism, having a privileged upbringing, The Hunger Games, talking herself out of jobs, acting, dark fantasies, letting people in, honesty and stepping on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s foot.Trigger warning – divorce, trauma, violence, war, refugees, parental/family violence, death, funerals, torture, emotional abuseArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Kemah Bob about finding out what she was fleeing from, therapy, healing, confronting people about childhood traumas, comedy, weed, majoring in theatre, navigating mental health services in central Texas and being a pansexual femme of colour.Trigger warning – bipolar disorder, childhood trauma, emotional abuse and manipulation, mania, drug use, medication, depression, mental health institutions, hospitals, needles, self harm, social anxiety, psychosisArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Chloe Petts about resolutions, sadness, being a queer lesbian masculine woman, comedy, change, coming out, dealing with aggression on the street, vulnerability, the LOL Word, having amazing parents, football, homelessness outreach work and The Bishop of Borneo.Trigger warning – street harassment/violence, hate crimes, panic, anxiety, social pressure, shame, homophobia, biphobia, breakups, homelessnessArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Jessica Fostekew about realising she isn’t straight, not knowing what you are but knowing what you aren’t, motherhood, filth, change, uncertainty, therapy, comedy, her podcast Hoovering, the joy of eating, the diet industry, calling people out and The Favourite.Trigger warning – therapy, trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, breakdown, panic, food, disordered eating, diets, Artwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

Sofie talks to Kivan Bay about being a baby trans guy, making things, coming out, stealing his dad’s underwear, fat activism, Foucault, suicide, online chat roleplaying, the body as a state of permanent revolution, bow ties, Ghost in the Shell and the intersection of fatness, gender and queerness.Trigger warning – suicide, bipolar, depression, dysphoria, diets, surgery, disordered eating, child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, rape, substance abuse, homelessness, abusive relationships, violence, alcoholism, childhood trauma, street harassment, homophobic slurs, fatmisia/fatphobia, transmisia/transphobiaArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show

In part two of a two part conversation Sofie talks to Mark Watson about the New Year, the old year, not being in a boy band, visiting different parts of the world, training your brain, not constraining your resolutions, YOLO, not giving things up, spending time alone, Sofie’s upcoming book and Anna Karenina.Trigger warning – #MeToo, alcohol, stress, smoking, addiction, eating, food, eating disorders, gym, shameArtwork by Linda BrinkhausJingle by Harriet BraineProduced by Dave PickeringMade of Human Podcast online:Twitter: @podmohFacebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcastWeb: madeofhumanpodcast.comPatreon: patreon.com/mohpodSofie Hagen online:Twitter: @SofieHagenFacebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komikerWeb: sofiehagen.comInstagram: @sofiehagendk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Support the show