Therapist Sonalee Rashatwar - Social work, casteism and gender identity

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sofie talks to Sonalee Rashatwar about social work, crying, fear, talking to inner children, creativity, the caste system, purity cultures, foggy memories, bisexuality, navigating therapy, gender identity, and being The Fat Sex Therapist on Instagram

Trigger warning – coronavirus, sex, sexual trauma, fat trauma, fatphobia, sexuality, body image, online abuse, anxiety, food precarity, dieting, eating disorders, emotional abuse, financial abuse, casteism, violence, lynching, religion, food, slut shaming, gendered racism, homophobia, biphobia, interpartner violence, therapy, sexual assault, damaging power dynamics, childhood sexual abuse, transphobia

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Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0	When people ask me like why do I do this work why do I put out like content on
0:03.4	Instagram like that and I'm like oh that's for me. These are reminders for me.
0:08.6	It's great that it's helpful for you too. But this work is like helps to soothe younger me because it reminds her that like these
0:16.6	were truths that she's always known. You are listening to Made of Human also
0:21.3	noticed the mow part a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen who is a Danish
0:28.2	comedian
0:29.2	mow
0:30.6	trying to find out how to do life
0:35.0	But it turns out
0:39.0	nobody knows
0:41.0	Mop.
0:42.0	Mopah. Pah.
0:45.0	So Nalia Rachattwa is a licensed clinical social worker, a sex therapist, a community organizer, public speaker.
0:55.0	They do sexual assault counseling
0:58.8	and specialises in ethnic identity development,
1:01.1	sexual trauma, just general sexuality and gender issues, and
1:06.8	fat identity and body image issues. She talks about fat trauma, sexual colonization, reproductive freedom, consent culture and race as a body image issue.
1:19.0	She, basically, Snally Rishawa is one of the most incredible people and is probably one of the people.
1:29.0	They might be the person I know who receives the most hate. It is out of this world what has been done, what rumors have been spread, what threats have been made, the lengths that people have gone to try and turn people against Sunali is, I mean, spectacular. It's almost I don't know I don't want to dwell you know dwell
2:07.3	dwell's at the word I don't want to dwell too much on it but I think a lot of people
2:12.4	are threatened by Sonale and of course they're a non-binary
2:18.3	you know bisexual super fat, very, very, very intelligent person.
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