S1 Ep3: Sophie Duker & Dr. Annabel Sowemimo

Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

Comedy, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hello and thank you so much for listening. This weeks guests were Sophie Duker and Dr Annabel Sowemimo here are the bios of the fantastic work they are doing and where to find out more:

🍌 Sophie Duker is @sophiedukebox on Twitter and Instagram

Sophie’s show Venus has been selling out and getting incredible reviews at The Edinburgh Fringe- be sure to check it out when it comes back to London and goes on tour as it explores the fetishisation and sexualisation of black women.

You can also catch Sophie at her regular gig Wacky Racists.

"Laugh-out loud funny" - The Telegraph. "A sparky proposition" - The Independent.

As seen on BBC2 (Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order), Channel 4 (Riot Girls), E4 (8 Out of 10 Cats), BBC Three and Comedy Central.

🍌 Annabel Sowemimo

Dr Annabel Sowemimo is a Community Sexual & Reproductive Health doctor having completed an MSc in Sexual & Reproductive Health Research & undergraduate study in Medical Anthropology. At medical school, Annabel assisted in developing training for medical students on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and continues to offer teaching on FGM & other Gender Based Violence. She is a contributor for online platforms including Black Ballad and gal-dem.com writing on a range of health, social justice and cultural issues.

Annabel is founder of Decolonising Contraception a community interest company aimed at addressing the unethical history in sexual and reproductive health particularly experimentation on people of colour. Decolonising contraception is about understanding how culture and history impact these populations and effect how they experience sexual reproductive health care. Decolonising Contraception are currently crowdfunding to create the first sexual health & well-being festival for people of colour in the UK.

Annabel firmly believes that healthcare should be about empowering people with knowledge to make informed choices about their bodies. She spends her spare time campaigning on reproductive justice, NHS cuts and improving healthcare of marginalised groups. When she is not in scrubs or in clinic; she can be found at a protest with a placard!

The links to find out more are here:

www.decolonisingcontraception.com

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/decolonising-contraception-the-sex-fest

🍌 In the episode we mention Lust Cinema which can be found here.

🍌 And the awful treatment of Sarah Baartman, you can get an overview of that here.

🍌 There was also discussion of the horrid history of the invention of the speculum which you can read about here.

🍌 My book Sex Power Money is out now in hardback / audiobook / ebook

Transcript

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0:00.0	So as part of my job I am in the lovely privileged position that I get to speak to a range of people every day that I guess wouldn't necessarily share different aspects because it's a confidential encounter with other people or people
0:16.2	that they're close to and when I speak to young people I've had a few that have disclosed to me and insinuated that that's really where
0:25.8	they've got all their information from and I commonly find that things have been really quite normalized in terms of we always
0:36.4	talk about like Brazilians and having all the hair gone that's a really common
0:41.1	one that yes from porn and that's the vaginas and the genitals that people used to seeing in their mind that not having it all gone
0:50.8	It's like a really archaic gross unacceptable way of being.
0:57.0	Welcome to Sex Power Money, my name is Sarah Pasco. This week I'm joined by brilliant
1:06.3	comedian Sophie Duke, her Edinburgh show, her debut was called Venus and touches
1:11.6	upon a lot of the things that we're discussing in
1:13.6	today's podcast also with us is Dr. Anabelle Soamimo she's a community
1:18.3	sexual reproductive health doctor we're going to be talking about depictions of
1:22.0	race in porn and the complications of
1:24.7	race in dating. We're going to be talking about Sarah Bartram and the awful history of
1:28.7	the Speculum. Um, so I So I do think that there is for a younger generation and people that have grown up with it
1:38.9	they can't really dissociate what is like what is a normal encounter and what is. So these people that you speak to
1:47.4	I guess if they've got all this information on the internet they don't have other
1:51.6	resources as in they don't have the efficient the members or anyone they could ask questions to. So we're in a really interesting time
2:03.7	and it's really interesting time to be talking about this because obviously we've
2:07.6	had the government recently developed the sex education guidelines which they want
2:11.2	to make mandatory and part of that I think is a growing
2:14.2	understanding that this newer generate this younger generation due to
2:18.6	social media and widen access of the internet and are getting a lot of their information online
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