Artist Ofa Fotu - Hip-hop feminism, racism in theatre and reclaiming negative spaces
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Australian artist Ofa Fotu (aka Odette Mercy) about being part of the cast of Hot Brown Honey, hip-hop feminism, women of colour in theatre, activism and self-care, douchebag presenters, reclaiming negative spaces, performing for children and the importance of diversity in audiences.
Works mentioned in this episode:
Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics
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| 0:00.0 | It's not about building a tough exterior because words hurt. It's actually |
| 0:05.3 | what am I going to say in response to this to number one shut you down with the truth. |
| 0:09.9 | Number two, educate you and number three make sure and ensure that you will not repeat this |
| 0:16.2 | to another person. |
| 0:19.3 | To have to constantly think on the top of your head, |
| 0:22.0 | yet it takes a lot of energy. |
| 0:24.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:30.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm a stand-up comedian and you're listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:41.0 | podcast or in short, Mopad. It's a podcast in which I speak to a diverse, inclusive and exciting |
| 0:50.2 | range of people about life, or at least that's what I try to do. I try to kind of cut |
| 0:56.8 | through the small talk and instead of just trying to talk about real things just for an hour so we can all learn and grow and |
| 1:06.4 | feel less alone I guess. This week I'm speaking to Ofa Foto.. She is bloody incredible. Her stage name is Odette Mercy. |
| 1:16.8 | If you want to go and YouTube her, I would suggest you tooping everything she's part of. |
| 1:22.1 | Over Fow2, O'Dade Mercy, |
| 1:24.6 | Try and YouTube all go and see live, hot brown honey, |
| 1:27.7 | which is like a performance company that she's part of. |
| 1:30.7 | And as I was watching the show I was just blown away she has the most |
| 1:36.2 | incredible voice and you know how I love voices and anyway she's so important and you need |
| 1:41.9 | to all get to know her immediately. |
| 1:45.2 | I will let you listen, listen, listen. |
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