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Who Hurt You?

Activist Sarah Mardini - Swimming, her boat story and being fearless

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Sarah Mardini about being a Syrian refugee in Berlin, swimming, her "boat story", volunteering in Greek refugee camps, Amnesty International, activism, prison, therapy, and the book that covers her and her sisters story; Butterfly


Trigger warning – coronavirus, refugee camps, trauma, war, death, therapy, depression, child marriage, Assad, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, prison, criminal justice system, precarity


Artwork by Justine McNichol

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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And I was crying and want to go to the hospital and check on him and then my boss grabbed me.

0:05.0

And he said if you want to continue with this job, you need to detach your brain from your heart when you work.

0:11.0

When you stand on the shoreline, you're just a rescue person.

0:14.0

You are listening to Made of Human, also known as the Mole

0:18.7

a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish comedian.

0:25.0

Mow!

0:26.0

Trying to find out how to do life,

0:30.0

but it turns out. In the background of this recording you can hear my

0:33.6

dehumous.

0:37.0

In the background of this recording you can hear my dehumidifier because I live in a very damp place and I just did my laundry and you can probably hear some sounds from the outside,

0:52.7

which might be the sound of maybe the baby foxes

0:56.8

that are playing in my garden, like I'm

0:59.7

fucking snow-wide or something.

1:01.2

It's amazing. I am so attached to these baby foxes and their

1:05.4

mother and I feel like they're my friends and yeah I might be losing it in

1:10.8

solitary lockdown but I love them I love them so much and then I told my friend how much I

1:18.4

loved them and he told me that faxes they don't live that long.

1:24.0

Sometimes they'll only be one year or two years old

1:27.0

so that I should prepare to not see them for much longer.

1:31.0

So that's fun.

1:32.0

What a great cheering up that was. You might also be able to

1:37.4

hear my washing machine. It's it's laundry day today in the in the Hagen mansion that is my moldy studio flat which I deep

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