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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Fat Activist Dr. Cat Pausé - Fat activism, legal discrimination of fat people and Hamilton

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to scholar and fat activist Dr. Cat Pausé about travelling Europe, fat activism, being a scholar, legal discrimination of fat people, science, authenticity and Hamilton.

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0:00.0

But one of the things that's really crystallized for me is I really I'm here for the

0:03.7

fattest of the fat like I'm here for the like the stereotypical image that people have in

0:08.0

their mind of like the person who's so fat they have to be hoisted out of their bed

0:11.3

by the firefighters and by the crane.

0:13.2

Like that's the fat person I'm fadding for.

0:14.9

Like that fat person still deserve the same rights

0:19.0

and the same dignity as all the other fat people

0:21.6

and all the non-fat people in the world.

0:24.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:29.0

We're all made of human.

0:35.0

Welcome to the Made of Human podcast.

0:37.0

This is Sophie Hagen. I'm your host and this is a podcast in which I speak to

0:41.0

just incredible people about how to do life. Initially I wanted to find out

0:47.1

yeah how to do life and then I very quickly realized that no one actually knows how to do it.

0:53.0

And in this episode I will be speaking to Cat Pause.

0:56.0

She's here for a second time,

0:58.0

because she was only in Europe for about six months

1:01.0

and then she goes back to New Zealand.

1:02.0

So I wanted to get her in while she's

1:04.4

here because she's just incredible and quite like a hero a hero of mine I'm

1:10.1

gonna apologize for I guess this entire episode because this whole thing is recorded as I'm still in Denmark which I have been

1:17.7

Since Christmas so I've been thinking and speaking in Danish for about three weeks now and I can like it's affecting me so I know my accent is probably weirder than it usually is and I tend to forget words and it's the same when I did the podcast with cat

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