Fat Activist Charlotte Cooper - Fat feminism in the 60's and 70's, HAES and the Fattylympics
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to psychotherapist and fat activist Charlotte Cooper about doing a PhD and turning it into a book, the influence of Punk, early fat feminists from the 60’s and 70’s, the importance of archives, the professionalisation of HAES, co-counselling, the Fattylympics, Michel Foucault, the meaning of self-care and Project Swagger.
Works mentioned in this episode:
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement and Fat and Proud by Charlotte Cooper
Shadow on a Tightrope by Schoenfielder/Weiser/Mayer
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| 0:00.0 | The dominant culture kind of implies that being fat is not only not a good thing to be but that has no value at all. |
| 0:07.0 | Whereas I think to be somebody who is marginalised or hated or treated as a second-class citizen, you know, it's not just to do with facts, |
| 0:16.7 | it's to do with this whole sort of matrix of identities of people who are pushed to the outside. |
| 0:20.3 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:26.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen. I am a Danish stand-up comedian and you are listening to the |
| 0:35.9 | made-of-human podcast in short Mopard it's a podcast in which I have a chat with |
| 0:40.9 | some lovely people about life I try to find out how to do life and you know if the people I talk to don't know how to do life which |
| 0:48.4 | you know spoiler no one does it ends up being a chat where I don't know maybe we just feel less alone. I hate saying |
| 0:56.7 | that because it sounds so duchy but it's basically what it is and this week I'm |
| 1:00.7 | speaking to Shadow Cooper, who is a goddamn hero. I am so I you |
| 1:09.1 | there's a good chance you won't know who she is but there's a reason she's on this |
| 1:12.1 | podcast I adore her she is but there's a reason she's on this podcast. I adore her, she's so important, and I will let you listen to our chat in just a bit. |
| 1:17.3 | First, I'm on tour at the moment with my brand new stand-up comedy show, Dead Baby Frog. |
| 1:22.1 | I will be in Ab barist with Bristol, |
| 1:24.9 | Manchester, Oxford, Bromsgrove, Stockton, Cambridge, Colchester, New Milton, Reading Hall, |
| 1:30.0 | not Hampton and Canterbury. I will be in London at the Soho Theater from the 11th to the 21st of December. |
| 1:35.8 | I will be in Denmark in Copenhagen, Oahu's Elbow, Espier and Unse. The whole show is in English in Denmark as well. My whole tour is anxiety safe and has gender |
| 1:46.2 | neutral toilets and wheelchair access all around. Also there's a trigger |
| 1:50.4 | warning. The show contains mentions of emotional abuse and also a bit about physical abuse. |
| 1:56.1 | Go to SophieHagen.com for more information about all of this and to get tickets and all of that |
| 2:00.7 | and find out what I mean by anxiety, safe and gender neutral and all of those things. |
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