Artist Stuart Saint - HIV, Madonna and sex education (Part One)
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to writer and director Stuart Saint about being diagnosed with HIV and Cancer, Five Star and Madonna being the inspiration for a career in dance, Armistead Maupin, the importance of representation, disagreeing with labels, the link between fear and rebellion and the need for better sex education.
TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of serious illness (HIV, Cancer), Bullying
Works mentioned in this episode:
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Big Mouth on Netflix
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| 0:00.0 | There was pipes bloody everywhere and then they were going your kiddies are going to fail your liver's going to fail |
| 0:04.6 | you're going to go into intensive care we'll have to do surgery this is what's going to happen |
| 0:09.8 | and it's literally is pipes everywhere if you had to come and, you had to wear masks and hair nets and aprons and gloves |
| 0:15.4 | and covers on your shoes. |
| 0:16.4 | So everyone thought, they saw me one day and we go, |
| 0:18.3 | now I got cancer, but hey, we're gonna go through this. |
| 0:20.2 | And then the next day that would come and visit me, |
| 0:22.1 | and literally that was the state of me in a room. |
| 0:25.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:30.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the Made of Human |
| 0:38.0 | My name is Sophie Hagen and I am your host. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm also a stand-up comedian. |
| 0:42.0 | I am also a stand-up comedian I am also from Denmark I hope that explains the weird kind of accent thing that I have going on |
| 0:49.9 | Just this is a part if you if you're new to this I hope I hope you like this it's a |
| 0:55.6 | podcast in which I try to speak to people about how to do life how to become an adult |
| 1:01.5 | how to function as a human being. |
| 1:05.0 | Turns out, no one has any idea, so it ends up being a conversation between two people who are |
| 1:11.9 | confused by life and every once in a while I get people to say |
| 1:16.3 | something that's really helpful and this is one of those episodes because Stewart |
| 1:22.2 | Saint is absolutely incredible and you're going to hear that in a bit. |
| 1:28.1 | This is a two-parter. |
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