An Author Special With Drag Queen Amrou Al-Kadhi
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🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Greta Thunberg gave an emotional speech at the UN Climate Summit in NYC, Sally Challen did her first video interview about emotional abuse and coercive control to Sky News since she was cleared of murdering her husband in July and Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry became Dolly's new hero after her vibey turn at the Labour party conference.
In shocking news, the inventor of the labradoodle has admitted that he regrets creating the hybrid dog and Demi Moore has released a sizzling autobiography about her marriage to Ashton Kutcher.
This week we have an author special with Amrou Al-Kadhi. The Iraqi-Brit drag queen known as Glamrou of the drag troupe Denim, they are the author of a new coming-of-age memoir, Unicorn, about navigating a queer identity within a religion that considers homosexuality a crime. They talk about intersectionality, family, the act of transforming pain into pleasure via drag, discovering Sufism and seeking acceptance.
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Links
Unicorn, by Amrou Al-Kadhi https://www.waterstones.com/book/unicorn/amrou-al-kadhi/9780008306069
The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan
In praise of autumn dawns by Nell Frizzell:
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by T.Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, for ProPublica, 2015 https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story
Unbelievable, on Netflix
The Rewatchables podcast series https://www.theringer.com/the-rewatchables
The Open Ears Project with Eddie Izzard:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/17-on-elevation/id1477850699?i=1000451298008
The Open Ears Project with Aminatou Sow:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-open-ears-project/id1477850699?i=1000449737238
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Highloatle Caron to Fares and Pop Culture podcast brought to you by Dolly Alderton |
| 0:20.3 | and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:21.8 | Now I've got a news story for you that I think we've been waiting all of our lives to |
| 0:27.1 | read. |
| 0:28.1 | Are you ready? |
| 0:29.1 | I'm intrigued. |
| 0:29.9 | So it originally is from the Sun, but I read it in New York on the New York Post and |
| 0:36.1 | I actually prefer the American take on it. |
| 0:38.9 | So I'll read that one. |
| 0:41.2 | Well Hung Brit claims his bulge was mistaken for shoplifted goods. |
| 0:48.0 | This wasn't the type of package they thought he was hiding. |
| 0:51.3 | A Well Hung British man claims he was accused of shoplifting because his big bulge was |
| 0:55.6 | mistaken for stolen goods stuffed down his pants. |
| 0:59.2 | Steve Whitehurst 47 said that he was confronted in a menswear store and finally had to expose |
| 1:04.5 | his 10 inch penis to show that the only goods he was smuggling were his own. |
| 1:08.8 | I had very tight jeans on that day and there was a bulge, yes, but that's not illegal. |
| 1:13.5 | I can't help the way I made. |
| 1:15.1 | He told the UK paper of being stopped by suspicious staff with his girlfriend and 18 month old |
| 1:19.4 | grandson. |
| 1:20.4 | Eventually I dropped my trousers in front of everyone and just stood there in my box |
| 1:24.1 | of shorts and said, see, I've got nothing to hide. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm just 18 month old grandson and I like that detail. |
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