Author The Slumflower (aka. Chidera Eggerue) - Men, raging feminism and toplessness (Live)
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Sofie talks to award-winning blogger, creator of #SaggyBoobsMatter and author of What a Time to be Alone Chidera Eggerue (a.k.a. The Slumflower) about beauty standards, misogyny, heatwave toplessness, individuality in the UK, being okay with making mistakes, sharing a planet with men, policing women for speaking out, raging feminism, reparations in relationships, making solitude cool, jazz hands, fake feminists and a trophy cabinet of insecurities.
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's a mess, right? The aim is just to be the least possible, the least possible |
| 0:04.9 | version of a mess is possible, right? That's essentially the aim here, because no one's going to reach |
| 0:08.7 | perfection. So I guess we have to just try to not be as much of a mess as we were yesterday. |
| 0:13.4 | It gets better because it has to get better |
| 0:19.6 | we're all made of human. You are listening to the Made of Human podcast. I am your host Sophie Hagen and in the |
| 0:31.4 | background you may be able to hear the sound of traffic which is because I have my windows open. |
| 0:38.5 | It's a heat wave and I'm sweating from places I wasn't sure existed so you will be hearing some background noise I hope that's okay. |
| 0:49.1 | Well, there's no choice if I close the windows I will absolutely just die. So for those of you who are |
| 0:55.8 | tuning in for the first time I am a stand-up comedian. I am from Denmark that should |
| 1:00.7 | explain the accent and I started this podcast about two years ago in the hopes of finding out how to be human, how to deal with life, how to be, yeah, just how to kind of function in this world. |
| 1:17.0 | It turned out a spoiler alert that no one knows. |
| 1:20.3 | No one has any idea. |
| 1:21.8 | So now I just talk to interesting people and feel less alone with everything I guess and this episode is super super exciting for me because I have been such a fan of the slumflower for oh my god so long she's incredible |
| 1:36.8 | and this episode is I mean it's everything it's absolutely everything I have never there was such an |
| 1:49.6 | electricity this is a live episode and there was such an electricity in the room. I recorded, I've just, I'm just finished with recording a whole week of live episodes at the Soho Theater in London. |
| 2:01.0 | Chidero was one of them an extra show we put on and oh the I mean and she's so young |
| 2:09.4 | as well she's gonna be huge things. She's incredible. So you will feel something when you listen to this |
| 2:18.1 | episode. I can promise you that much. You may agree, you may disagree either way it's hard not to get sucked into |
| 2:26.6 | every single thing that should ever says so I'm very excited to tell you that I'll to show you that to make you listen, to have you listen. |
| 2:36.2 | Oh my God, my language doesn't work. It's so hard, guys, it's so hard. |
| 2:40.4 | Anyways, so I will let you listen to that in a short bit, but first, as I quickly want to say, my new show is out. |
| 2:48.3 | I made a stand-up show last year about my grandfather, who was a psychopath and who was emotionally abusive and I tried |
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