Fat Activist Your Fat Friend - Whiteness, division and police violence (Part One)
Who Hurt You?
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1 of a two part conversation Sofie talks to Your Fat Friend about whiteness. It’s an uncomfortable and flawed conversation because it’s two white people talking about whiteness but, in the face of global systemic white supremacy and police violence, it seems an important conversation to have.
Trigger warning – coronavirus, racism, white supremacy, violence, murder, slavery, misgendering, mental health issues
Things to do
75 things white people can do for racial justice: https://link.medium.com/s9Q4MiZuX6
Places to give
An up-to-date list of all the bailout funds in the US (to pay bail & get protestors out of jail) https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI
Black Visions Collective https://www.blackvisionsmn.org
Reclaim the Block https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home
US Black folks to follow & pay for your education
@sonyareneetaylor
@IjeomaOluo
@laylafsaad
@rachel.cargle
@thoughtyorganizer
@taranajaneen
@migrantscribble
@SandyLocks
UK Black folks to follow & pay for your education
@MsLadyPhyll
@kelechnekoff
@KGuilaine
@YrsaDaleyWard
@kehinde_andrews
@ukblm
@lolaolufemi_
@galdemzine
@renireni
Books to Read
"So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
"Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis
"White Fragility" by Robin diAngelo
"Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia" by Sabrina Strings
“Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge
“Why Race Still Matters” bu Alana Lentin
“Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
Podcasts
Seeing White from Scene On Radio
Busy Being Black
Say Your Mind
Surviving Society
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Intersectionality Matters with Kimberle Crenshaw
The 13th: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80091741
Artwork by Justine McNichol
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | If you cut off all the people who you think have unjust viewpoints, then they are only listening to other people who make them feel good about the garbage things they think. |
| 0:10.0 | As white people, it can feel really satisfying to be like, blocked, I'm not going to deal with my aunt anymore or whatever, and that doesn't actually functionally do or change anything for anybody else. |
| 0:23.6 | You are listening to Made of Human also known as the mole. |
| 0:28.6 | A podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish comedian |
| 0:35.0 | Trying to find out how to do life |
| 0:40.0 | But it turns out nobody The first thing I need to tell you about this particular episode which you are about to hear is that in the background you will, I mean fairly often more than I'd like be able to hear screams from the foxes in my garden. |
| 1:10.1 | This is recorded at 10 p.m. my time and that's where the foxes have a small gathering outside of my window |
| 1:20.2 | where they just have a lovely conversation in screams, screams only. |
| 1:25.0 | So that is the sound you can hear in the background. |
| 1:28.0 | Sorry about that. |
| 1:29.0 | We've tried not to mention it too much, but sometimes it'll be there. |
| 1:32.0 | You might also hear sounds of my stomach |
| 1:35.8 | rumbling, is that what you say? Groening? What do you call? Growning? |
| 1:40.1 | Growning? Anyways, my stomach, um, because I'm we recorded this right after I had dinner |
| 1:46.8 | those are the two sort of things about this podcast that those are the least |
| 1:51.4 | uncomfortable things about this entire |
| 1:53.2 | podcast. This is a conversation. It's a special, a special episode in a lot of |
| 2:02.0 | ways. A lot of things are not what they're used to being. |
| 2:05.0 | First of all, it's a two-parter, which I'll get into in a bit. |
| 2:10.0 | It's a conversation between me and your fat friend who is a still anonymous fat activist. |
| 2:20.0 | You have heard her on the podcast before where she talked about fatness, which is what she mostly writes about. |
| 2:27.0 | She has done a lot of work, a lot of community work. |
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