Fat Activist Kivan Bay - Coming out, bow ties and the intersection of fatness, gender and queerness
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Kivan Bay about being a baby trans guy, making things, coming out, stealing his dad’s underwear, fat activism, Foucault, suicide, online chat roleplaying, the body as a state of permanent revolution, bow ties, Ghost in the Shell and the intersection of fatness, gender and queerness.
Trigger warning – suicide, bipolar, depression, dysphoria, diets, surgery, disordered eating, child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, rape, substance abuse, homelessness, abusive relationships, violence, alcoholism, childhood trauma, street harassment, homophobic slurs, fatmisia/fatphobia, transmisia/transphobia
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | I think that I'm in a constant state of deconstructing and reconstructing my body, my identity, and my relationship to my body, |
| 0:11.5 | because I'm learning every day, I'm learning every day I'm reading every day and I discover new |
| 0:16.3 | things that teach me new ways how to like feel less like something separate from |
| 0:21.6 | my body. You are listening to Made of Human also noticed that Mopard |
| 0:27.6 | a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, |
| 0:30.9 | who is a Danish comedian? |
| 0:33.0 | Trying to find out how to do life |
| 0:39.0 | But it turns out nobody knows Mopah. |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you so much for choosing to listen to this episode of the Mad of Human |
| 0:56.0 | Podcast. It's a special episode. I know I keep saying that because in a way they're all |
| 1:00.3 | special but it is really is a special episode both because it's |
| 1:05.8 | Kivin Bay and Kivin Bay is just one of my heroes and someone I'm so proud to call |
| 1:12.4 | her friend. |
| 1:13.5 | Kian Bay is a fat activist from the States and he's just this amazingly cool, |
| 1:20.0 | trans, queer, funny activist academic I actually don't even know if he is an academic |
| 1:27.6 | but he definitely reads academic texts and understands them and explains them to me so that I can understand them. |
| 1:34.8 | He's incredible. |
| 1:35.9 | So what happened was about a year ago |
| 1:39.1 | when I was still in the middle of writing my book, |
| 1:41.5 | which will be out soon. I wanted to interview a bunch of people |
| 1:46.2 | with sort of different backgrounds than my own so that I could represent other viewpoints in my book than just my own boring white blah, blah, |
| 1:57.6 | blah, viewpoint. So I interviewed Kevin and we did that by me sending what's that messages, voice messages to him and then he would send voice messages over what's that back. |
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