Author Juno Dawson - Emotional literacy, transphobia and YA novels
Who Hurt You?
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Juno Dawson about writing fiction, screenplays and memoir, being a primary school teacher, emotional literacy, listening, learning, social media, “balance”, fan fiction, horror, the power of saying you’re wrong and her YA novels Meat Market, Clean and Wonderland.
Content warning – coronavirus, mental health issues, anxiety, burnout, breakups, anger, sadness, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, incarceration, bereavement, economic/social deprivation, depression, antisemitism, racism, “cancel culture”, sexuality
Artwork by Justine McNichol
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | Nowadays we would have called it fan fiction but we didn't have a word for it in the 90s. |
| 0:04.2 | I was writing my own X file stories so I could be scully. |
| 0:07.6 | I was writing my own Dr. Who adventures so I could be ace. I think if your imagination is a muscle I have a really developed |
| 0:16.7 | imagination because I spent my whole childhood imagining what my life would be |
| 0:20.7 | like as a girl. |
| 0:21.5 | You are listening to Made of Human, |
| 0:24.3 | also known as the Mole Part, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, |
| 0:30.1 | who is a Danish comedian. |
| 0:32.4 | Mole Pahr. Mowh comedian trying to find out how to do life |
| 0:38.0 | but it turns out nobody knows maupau. |
| 0:48.8 | I think this is a first. |
| 0:51.1 | I don't think I've ever done an intro to an episode of the Mopard at 8 a.m. |
| 1:00.0 | after having just broken up you are literally the first people I talk to today. |
| 1:05.0 | These are the first words I say today. |
| 1:08.0 | I am living in chaos, I just moved house and there are boxes and bags and mess and |
| 1:18.0 | cardboard so much cardboard everywhere so board everywhere. So, I mean I'm recording this on my phone so maybe the quality of |
| 1:28.5 | sound is not amazing. I have missed a few episodes which I'm so sorry about I'm I'm gonna try and release them |
| 1:37.4 | They might be released a bit closer together hopefully by the end of the month so that will okay how do I describe this so I will |
| 1:47.5 | always only release a maximum of five episodes per month, like one a week. So if it's a four Wednesdays month, I'll |
| 1:59.4 | release four episodes that month. So I don't even know what this month. What is it? What are we in? |
| 2:06.2 | September for how we're in September?, so September is a one, two, three. September, September, so sorry, is a five Wednesday month. So in September, in September, I will only release five episodes. They might be released all this week or next week. |
| 2:31.0 | But nevertheless, don't worry, I'm not suddenly going to release 13 |
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