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Who Hurt You?

Writer Glamrou - Queerness, Islam and turning trauma into glitter

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Glamrou/Amrou Al-Kadhi about queer identity, muslim identity, race, being non-binary, forgiving their mother, going to Eton on a scholarship, queer readings of the Quran, Sufism, sex parties, marine biology, making the NB podcast and writing their book Unicorn: the memoir of a muslim drag queen.


Trigger warning – racism, shootings, queerphobia, OCD, homophobia, rape, violence, religion, islamophobia, sex, shame, gender dysphoria


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

I was raised Muslim and early on it was just a joy. It was just like there's this thing, Allah, they love you completely, you've got that forever.

0:10.0

You've got this unconditional love with a protector. Just be good, be yourself, you're going to go to heaven. In heaven you could get what you want. And I just remember thinking, oh my God, I'm just going to get loads of furbies.

0:21.0

You are listening to made of human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by Sophie

0:28.0

Hagen who is a Danish comedian

0:32.0

Mow. trying to find out how to do life maupau but it turns out nobody knows maupau Nobody knows.

0:43.0

Mo-P-P-P-O-P-

0:47.0

You're about to hear one of the...

0:51.0

I think I mean best is a big word best is what does that even mean well one of my

0:59.6

favorite one of my one of the episodes that I have done that has meant the most to me it was just

1:11.1

glam rue is you can hear how stumb I am. They just left my flat and I'm recording this straight after.

1:19.1

So I'm still a bit just blown away and a bit overwhelmed by this amazing person.

1:27.6

So yeah, so you're about to hear that and I will let you do that as quickly as I possibly can.

1:33.0

First I want to say I am on tour of the UK.

1:36.0

I'm going to be in various places like Cambridge and Colchester,

1:40.0

South, Newcastle Leeds, Exeter London and some other places as well.

1:45.8

I don't have the list with me right now, but a lot of places and I would love to see all of you

1:50.2

there. My book Happy Fat is coming out on May 2nd that you can

1:55.0

can pre-order it now and apparently it matters that you pre-order it so if you can

1:58.5

do that that would be amazing otherwise just get it when you can or don't

2:02.3

get it I don't I'm not your mother.

2:05.0

You can also get it on audiobook and e-book, is that even what you call it anymore? My God, my God! So, there's all of that. I have got another

2:18.8

podcast called The Secret Dinosaur Cult, which I'm doing with Jody Mitchell. A really fun project. It's a live comedy

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