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Who Hurt You?

Comedian Danielle Perez - Stand-up comedy, COVID-19 and being a fat disabled black woman

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Danielle Perez about comedy, acting, writing, being a fat disabled woman of colour (in a pandemic), losing her legs, becoming a stand-up comedian and co-running a diversity showcase in LA.


Trigger warning – coronavirus, anxiety, therapy, PTSD, yeast infection, Trump, illness, disability, double amputee, fatphobia, eating disorders, bulimia, body image, therapy, STDs, abortion, sexual assault, rape, train crash, pneumonia, hospital



Artwork by Justine McNichol

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

There was one podcast I did where it was just like they were like what's it feel like to live in a marginalized body to be a marginalized body performing comedy and it was just so like they just kept repeating marginalized body and I was like just say fat just say disabled just

0:14.0

I don't know what like just say it. You are listening to made a human also

0:19.0

known as the mow part a podcast hosted by Sophie Fagan, who is a Danish comedian.

0:27.0

Mole Pah.

0:28.0

Trying to find out how to do life, but it turns out.

0:37.0

Nobody knows.

0:40.0

Mopah. Thank you so much for choosing to listen to my podcast. It's, there's apparently a rapid decline in people listening to podcast at the moment because apparently people mostly

0:54.6

listen to podcasts when they were on their way to work and since this is

1:00.3

this is released hopefully no longer than mid-pandemic.

1:05.0

Let's hope it's on the...

1:07.0

Let's hope that's getting better.

1:08.0

I mean, I'm recording this a week or two before you are listening,

1:12.0

you know, before it's released.

1:14.9

I mean, it could all be over by now or yeah. So thank you for choosing to listen to this even though there's a very big

1:22.1

chance that you are probably

1:23.7

not going to be on public transportation that makes me very happy a lot to know

1:27.8

what you're doing as you're listening so can you tweet me at Sophie

1:31.2

H-O-F-I-G-E-N

1:33.3

and let me know what you're doing as you are listening to this

1:35.9

if this is still mid-pandemic.

1:37.7

You might be in the distant, distant future,

1:40.2

in which case, hi, this is how this is I mean they keep telling us to keep journals and stuff because you know

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