Comedian Gina Yashere - Racism, self-esteem and independence
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to comedian Gina Yashere about travelling, sleeping, being cool, self-esteem, racism in all the workplaces, attitude, fighting, girlfriends and being commitmentphobes, being alone and wanting to be alone, independence and more. Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus Jingle by Bailey Lenart A huge thanks to Phoenix Artist Club in London for letting me record my podcast and do my shows with them. Special thanks to Peter Dunbar. Made of Human Podcast online: Twitter: @podmoh Facebook: facebook.com/madeofhumanpodcast Web: mohpod.com Patreon: patreon.com/mohpod Sofie Hagen online: Twitter: @SofieHagen Facebook: facebook.com/sofiehagen.komiker Web: sofiehagen.com Instagram: @sofiehagendk
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| 0:00.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:06.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and a radio show thank you for downloading this and listening to it it's a |
| 0:24.6 | podcast in which I try to talk to people about how to do life I'm trying to |
| 0:28.9 | understand how life works and how to be an adult person I'm not saying I have the answers, I really don't, but I do have some brilliant guests who can give you some kind of perspective and maybe remind you that you're not alone in not knowing how to do this stuff. |
| 0:46.4 | So that's the podcast. I am, I'm so tired, I'm sorry, so so so tired. This is International Women's Day and I'm meant to not work and strike and I wish I just hadn't even |
| 1:01.8 | I hadn't planned that I'm a bad feminist today I have to do this I have to work and it's um yeah I'm I have so I have to work and it's um yeah I, I have so much, I have so much respect for people who fight. |
| 1:20.0 | That's all I can say, I have so much respect for people who fight. |
| 1:23.2 | And last week, on last week's episode, I shared the story about an Irish promoter who |
| 1:30.6 | have set bad things on stage, bad things about bad people, racial, sexist staff, homophobic |
| 1:36.5 | staff, and I asked you all to go in and sign a petition and so many of you have done that. |
| 1:42.0 | I think we must have had about 500 |
| 1:44.0 | extra signatures on this petition. I've had retweets, I've had people |
| 1:48.0 | supporting, I've had people sharing their stories with me, and all I can say is thank you, thank you for actually doing something. |
| 1:56.2 | I keep tweeting it, you know, that promoter has been in touch basically asking me to stop tweeting |
| 2:01.7 | about it, so now I'm tweeting about it every single day because you know that's that feels |
| 2:06.9 | threatening that feels threatening when someone goes stop doing this when when this guy has said things that I can't even repeat to you because it would hurt so much |
| 2:15.5 | So yeah, go Twitter. It's it'll still be on the petition will still be on the Emma Halton episode, Show Notes, you want to go and sign it. |
| 2:24.6 | I told you that I would keep you up to date with what's happening. |
| 2:27.3 | I am in dialogue with the promoter in question and I'm trying to... |
| 2:32.1 | I've let him know basically what he has to do in order |
| 2:36.2 | for this to go away which is you know apologize like genuinely apologize |
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