Comedian Avery Edison - Being transgender, why cops aren't human and sex work
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to returning guest comedian, writer and sex worker Avery Edison about being transgender, feeling like a dinosaur, why “cops aren’t human”, restorative justice, what comedy and sex work have in common, bi-polar disorder, being sent to a men's prison in Canada, the difference between handcuffs and manacles, the Jamie Bulger case and removing emotion from the justice system.
Trigger warning: Imprisonment, suicidal thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | They sent me to a men's prison and put me in segregated housing there. |
| 0:07.0 | In Segg, in the shoe, you might have heard that on oranges the new black which was a show I was able to watch |
| 0:16.2 | season one of and then found season two kind of difficult. It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:25.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Made of Human |
| 0:32.0 | Podcast. I'm Sophie Hagen. I'm a Danish stand-up |
| 0:35.6 | comedian and I'm the host of this podcast, Made of Human Podcast, also called |
| 0:39.6 | Mopod, M-O-H-P-O-D. This is the Avery Edison, her second episode, she's been on once before, quite a while ago now. |
| 0:48.0 | She is one of my favorite people and I... |
| 0:51.0 | This is a special episode, It's not a two-parter. It's not, it's just special. And I know, it thrilled me. |
| 1:03.9 | Listening to Avery, say all of these things, it excited me to my core. |
| 1:09.4 | I don't know, it was so, I became, I felt like almost bloodthirsty because she's |
| 1:14.6 | She's so funny as well like it is basically you could cut out everything that I say in this episode |
| 1:19.6 | And it would almost be better because |
| 1:26.4 | This is almost like a stand-up hour from Avery and it's so good. |
| 1:31.8 | And I urge you to stick through it, listen to the end, |
| 1:35.0 | because it only gets better and better, and she's, ah, this is incredible, it's incredible. |
| 1:38.0 | It's incredible. |
| 1:39.0 | But it is a special one. |
| 1:40.0 | It's, and you'll see why, it's unlike, I basically said to her, um, do you want to do the, the |
| 1:46.6 | podcast again? And she said, yeah, we're gonna, are we gonna talk about the police? |
| 1:50.3 | And I was like, fuck, yeah, yeah, we're talking about the police, yeah, we are. |
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