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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Jodie Mitchell - Drag, gender, homelessness and class (Live)

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to comedian Jodie Mitchell about being part of a drag king troupe, getting bigger laughs as a man, playing along the lines of gender, getting fucked over by a budgie, her terrifying Scottish mother, class and comedy, being homeless as a teenager, the importance of having your own space and the pressure of self-advancement.


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0:00.0

When you feel like you're more entitled to take up that space and that was such a

0:07.0

weird thing to realize because I see myself as someone who is really confident when I walk out and I've always presented in

0:16.0

quite a butch way so I was I was just shocked by that.

0:21.0

It gets better because it has to get better

0:27.0

We're all made of human

0:30.0

You are listening to the Made of Human Podcast. My name is

0:33.3

Sophie Hagen. I am your host. It's a podcast in which I speak to nice people

0:38.2

about life, about how to do it, how to be an adult, and if they don't know how to do it, we'll just be less alone together.

0:46.0

We have something I've just ripped out of an iTunes review.

0:50.0

Now you know that.

0:52.0

I'm not really, usually I plucked a tour now, but I don't, it's almost over.

0:57.0

So I have Oohus-Ouns and Alboe left in Denmark, but by the time this comes out, that's done.

1:07.0

Anyways, if you want to see me live, tough luck.

1:11.0

Go to Serbia-Hagen. Sign up with the newsletter and I will let you know when and where I am gigging.

1:16.4

I will be bringing Mopad to a bunch of festivals, both the Edinburgh Festival and the Brighton Fringe and others.

1:29.0

We got some made of human partners that come.

1:32.0

You can sign up for the news letter there where you will get, oh, London,

1:35.1

where you will get, yeah, you'll be able to get hold of the tickets first.

1:39.9

Let's do the act of disobedience.

1:44.2

This is one of my favorite ones I've ever received

1:47.5

because it becomes apparent that the person who wrote this

1:51.8

was drunk when they wrote it and it makes me so happy.

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