ALOK - Re-release

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In honor of pride month, we are re-releasing our beloved episode with ALOK. Indian-American writer, performance artist, and media personality ALOK joins Jameela this week to discuss all things Trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary, the problem with those who are gender-critical & TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), and how to be a better ally to those that are shunned by the rest of the world.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jameela Jamil. I hope you're well. I am fine.
0:05.3	I uh, I just uh, I'm a bit sad. I'm a bit sad because I've been reading all about Britney Spears this
0:12.4	week and I have been on the free Britney train for a long time but hearing it in her own words, how
0:19.4	devastating her life is. Just because she was a talented child once who grew into a talented teenager
0:27.0	and untalented woman and therefore was taken advantage of for all of the money that she could
0:32.0	make other people and therefore kept in what really looks a bit like a legal hostage situation
0:38.5	right in front of the whole world. It's just so disturbing. If you're not familiar with the free
0:43.7	Britney movement, I strongly suggest you look it up because it is extraordinary just to see
0:48.3	that the days of taking a woman and illustrating her pain as hysteria and madness and and not really
1:00.1	looking out for her and trying to cure her sadness and instead just sort of mocking her demonising,
1:06.0	her villainising her and imprisoning her in some way. It's just devastating. It feels like
1:10.7	something you would have read about in a book 200 years ago, not something that could happen now
1:14.3	in this age of alleged women's empowerment in 2021. How is this still happening? How is this woman
1:20.0	still having to beg and testify for her freedom? Someone who's able to do world tours and you know
1:26.5	residency in Vegas and who's able to judge a massive reality TV show, one of the biggest reality
1:32.3	TV shows in the world. She's able to do all of that but she's supposedly not able to look after
1:38.0	herself in any way and cannot have any freedom. It's just ridiculous. Anyway, today's episode is not
1:44.2	about that. Today's episode is an episode I released last year that I wanted to bring back just
1:50.6	in case there was anyone who hasn't heard this episode and even if you have, I strongly suggest
1:57.7	that you listen to it again because it remains the single most informative and interesting
2:04.4	and mind-blowing and inspiring hour of my life maybe. I have activist and artist and
2:13.0	and spokesperson and just general iconic joy, a look on my podcast and they came onto this podcast
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