Disability Activist Carly Findlay - Micro-aggressions, bad interviews and Savage Garden
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Sofie and writer, speaker, activist and podcaster Carly Findlay talk about bad interviews, avoiding internet arguments, Carly’s work as the Access and Inclusion Officer at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, micro-aggressions against disabled people, You Can't Ask That, click bait, becoming more assertive, backlash from the disability community, switching off and a deep love for Savage Garden.
The audio from the interview Carly mentioned is here.
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| 0:00.0 | Overall the conversation has changed people are listening people are getting what ableism is you know what discrimination is to what's people with disability |
| 0:06.8 | They're seeing that that bad reporting around disability is quite similar to bad reporting around racism and |
| 0:14.8 | homophobia and stuff. |
| 0:17.8 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:22.0 | We're all made. You are listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:27.8 | You are listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:29.1 | podcast. I am Sophie Hagen. I am your host and if you're listening for the first time this |
| 0:35.2 | podcast is a podcast in which I speak to just cool inspiring nice interesting people about life I initially set out to find out |
| 0:46.3 | how to do life how to be an adult person and then realized you know what not a lot of |
| 0:52.4 | people actually know how to do that so now we just kind of share |
| 0:55.4 | stories about how weird and difficult and fun life can sometimes be I think that might be the first time in my life I've ever |
| 1:03.7 | insinuated that life was ever fun, which it says all you need to know about me. |
| 1:08.8 | Hi I am talking at you from Melbourne. I'm jet laggy. I'm so jet laggy. My head is weird and |
| 1:20.8 | there's something super strange about being on the other side of the world. |
| 1:25.0 | Just, and you know what it is? |
| 1:28.0 | It's, I can't really comprehend that I am so much of an adult that they allow me to travel this far. |
| 1:42.0 | That's where I am with this. I find it weird that at some point in some |
| 1:46.5 | airport someone should have been like, wait you're Sophie Hagen you shouldn't be |
| 1:51.3 | allowed to travel you're not an adult yet you don't know how to do life so why are you putting why are we putting you on a plane |
| 1:57.4 | huh like what how is this responsible behavior so I feel weird and I feel like this might reflect that the fact that I'm a bit just |
| 2:07.8 | a bit all over the place but I'm I brought my recording equipment so I'm going to talk to people in Melbourne and already it's proven to be not just people living in Melbourne |
| 2:18.1 | It's people from all over the world who happen to be in Melbourne during this month. So yeah, a lot of the people I get to talk to are people |
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