Body Activist Jes Baker - Body image, burnout culture and fatphobia around the world
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to writer and lecturer, Jes Baker about being Jes Baker for a living, her blog ‘The Militant Baker’, making her own Abercrombie and Fitch fake ads, body image and mental health, shame resilience, making the world a more compassionate place, a Mormon childhood, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls, Landwhale, sharing your deepest darkest secrets, absolving emotional abuse, applauding the burnout culture, fatphobia around the world, animals in human clothing, going deep on wheat, replacing religion with activism and defence mechanisms.
Trigger warning – fatphobia,
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Sarah Garvey
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a world where we pat people on the back for being overworked and always tired, you know? |
| 0:06.7 | Like have you ever like gone up to your friend and you're like, hey, how are you doing? |
| 0:10.0 | They're like, oh my God, I'm so exhausted. Oh, I just like, there's so much going on and I just never get any sleep and you're like, good for you! |
| 0:18.0 | You know? |
| 0:20.0 | You are listening to made of human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by Sophie |
| 0:27.4 | Hagen who is a Danish comedian |
| 0:30.8 | Mowo |
| 0:31.7 | trying to find out comedian maupaupau |
| 0:35.4 | how to do life maupau |
| 0:38.6 | but it turns out nobody knows maup Nobody knows. |
| 0:43.0 | Mo-P-P-I-M-O- |
| 0:47.0 | I hope you |
| 0:50.0 | I hope you enjoyed that new jingle. I really really love it. It's made by Harriet Brain who is just incredible. She also made the |
| 0:58.4 | jingle for my new Parker secret dinosaur cult which I will briefly tell you a tiny bit about because I need |
| 1:05.4 | you to listen to it and love it and make it your new best friend basically so what I |
| 1:12.1 | like about this jingle is that it says all the things that I usually say in the beginning which gives me |
| 1:17.0 | I feel like it always stifled me a bit that I had to say the whole you are listening to the made of you you know it's a bit to |
| 1:25.4 | radio I mean it's definitely not radio that was not what it was but it just put me into this unnatural kind of state of mind. |
| 1:37.0 | Anyways, I just start rambling because I have takeaway arriving in estimated arrival 16 minutes. |
| 1:47.0 | So this is the Jazz Baker episode. |
| 1:49.4 | It's the first ever episode that I have done over the internet. It means that the sound quality |
| 1:56.3 | is a bit different. You can kind, you can hear that it's not a face-to-face kind of |
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