Mania, Cancer, Communism & #MeToo - Sofiya Alexandra

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 148 minutes

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The writer (Danger & Eggs) standup (Comedy Central: This is Not Happening) & podcaster (Reality Bytes) shares about her childhood under communism in the Ukraine, her battles with bipolar (loving the mania), surviving cancer and how to help or talk to someone with it and how all of us can help the #MeToo movement, especially powerful people who caused harm. Older episodes can be found ad-free exclusively at Stitcher Premium for $4.99/month. Get one month free with offer code MENTAL at signup at www.StitcherPremium.com/mentalpod Hear guests like: Tiffany Haddish, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Melissa Villasenor, NHL Legend Theo Fleury, Aisha Tyler, Scott Thompson, Kathryn Hahn, Nikki Glaser, Rob Delaney, Paul F. Tompkins and bestselling authors like Dr. Elyn Saks, and Caitlin Doughty. More About Our Guest Sofiya's twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSofiya Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/THESOFIYA/ Her website: http://www.sofiyaalexandra.com And here's a link to her breast cancer "manifesto": http://thesofiya.tumblr.com/post/150330844150/cancermanifesto Support Our Sponsors! This ep is sponsored by Casper mattresses. For $50 towards your mattress purchase go to www.Casper.com/mental and use the offer code MENTAL. Terms and conditions apply. This ep is sponsored by Care/Of monthly vitamin subscription service. For 25% off your first month go to www.TakeCareOf.com and enter offer code MENTAL Other Links Mentioned www.theintercept.com a great site for award-winning investigative journalism you won't find in mainstream media. Ways to Help the Podcast ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod -------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to Stitcher Premium for back catalog (& much more) -Older episodes can be found ad-free exclusively at Stitcher Premium for $4.99/month. Get one month free with offer code MENTAL at signup at www.StitcherPremium.com/mentalpod -Subscription includes all episodes, ad-free, going all the way back to ep #1 in 2011, plus back catalogs of tons of other great podcasts, standup albums, original content and more. -------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to [email protected]) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services --------------------------------------------------- See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Miss Fit toys.
0:02.6	Welcome to episode 407 with my guest Sophia Alexandra.
0:06.1	I'm Paul Gilmart and this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.
0:09.4	Normally I'll give you guys a bunch of bullshit up front about where you can find this and
0:16.6	that.
0:17.6	And I was going to give you some updates on my life and stuff like that up front, but I'm
0:24.9	going to do that after the interview.
0:27.2	And I just want to read this thing that was written by a former guest at her name is
0:35.1	Kalechi Ubozo and she's in the movie The S-word, which is about suicide and suicide survivors.
0:45.4	And she wrote this thing that is just so beautiful I wanted to read it.
0:51.2	It's an excerpt from a book that she and some other people are putting together.
0:56.5	She's a co-editor of it.
0:57.8	It's called We've Been Too Patient and Anthology of Voices from Radical Metal Health.
1:02.8	And it's supposed to be out in the summer of 2019 from North Atlantic books through
1:09.8	Penguin Random House.
1:12.0	And the piece she wrote is called She Wasn't Crazy.
1:18.6	And it goes, is that what you're supposed to say when you're searching?
1:23.3	And it goes, a little something like this.
1:27.0	Gov's, she wasn't crazy, but the world had a way of making her feel so.
1:32.9	You try being a black goth girl in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
1:36.6	She liked vampires and moracy and how the darkness wrapped around her like a warm, familiar
1:41.5	blanket.
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