Dulcé Sloan on Hope: After the Cut | Extended Interview with Sasha Colby

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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"People don't talk about how hard hope is." In After the Cut, Dulcé Sloan shares the role her mother played in her becoming a comic, and how holding on to hope has been the biggest challenge throughout her career. And legendary drag performer, Sasha Colby, talks about her experience winning "RuPaul's Drag Race," how anti-drag laws are a roundabout way of criminalizing trans people, and why she wants to be an example of a happy trans woman in a media landscape that tends to focus only on trans people's trauma. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.8	What is, what would you say your biggest challenge has been getting you to where you are
0:16.2	current?
0:17.2	Oh, hope.
0:28.2	Don't talk about how hard hope is.
0:32.1	To live in that place where you're like, it's going to happen tomorrow.
0:35.0	It's going to happen tomorrow.
0:36.2	It's going to happen tomorrow.
0:39.1	Is a very hard place for people because sometimes it lets you go, I can't, I quit.
0:44.5	So a lot of them, so I've been doing stand-ups since 2009, but I've been acting since I was
0:48.0	a kid, and I've been singing since I was a kid, and I have a theater degree, but y'all
0:53.3	know me as a comic.
0:55.2	So now all this work that I did, and I used to do musicals, I've done children shows,
0:59.0	I sang, I was in an improv group, I did all of these other things, but y'all know me as
1:03.2	a comic and a correspondent on the show.
1:05.3	So now all of these things I did since I was seven years old, I have to now reintroduce
1:09.3	everybody too.
1:11.7	But if I had lost hope and didn't start, because I started doing stand-up because somebody
1:15.7	told me I was a comic.
1:16.7	It was something that I chose to do.
1:19.5	I just happened to be good at something, so someone saw something in me that I didn't
1:22.3	see in myself.
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