Writer Riley Silverman - Female orgasms, friendship and being a trans woman in Trump's America
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks with Riley Silverman about the LA comedy scene, being a trans woman in Trump’s America, playing Dungeons and Dragons professionally, finding joy, being trans in public, experiencing female orgasms, feeling a wider spectrum of emotion, language and culture evolution, insecurity, talking about being trans so that people who are sick of talking about being trans don’t have to, looking for companionship, loneliness, friendship, being vulnerable on stage, emotional labour, Doctor Who, favourite film shots, live performance and making things that exist in the overlap.
Trigger warning – suicide, transphobia, surgery
Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering
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| 0:00.0 | I want people who are struggling with like coming out or struggling with the idea of being themselves |
| 0:04.6 | to know like there are ways you can not just live but thrive and be happy. |
| 0:10.7 | You are listening to made of Human, also known as the Mole Part, a podcast hosted by Sophie |
| 0:18.2 | Fagan, who is a Danish comedian. |
| 0:21.8 | Mowo! trying to find out how to do life |
| 0:28.0 | mow but it turns out |
| 0:31.0 | nobody knows mop how? |
| 0:40.2 | Hi everyone in this episode. I will be speaking to Riley Silverman who is a really |
| 0:47.9 | incredible person a really funny person and someone that was one of the absolute first people that I contacted when I realized |
| 0:56.1 | that I could do these overseas episodes. I have so many people on my list. Don't worry there will also be normal face-to-face chats happening |
| 1:06.3 | on the podcast but at the moment I am fully engaged on getting people on this |
| 1:11.2 | podcast that wouldn't normally be able to be on it. |
| 1:14.0 | I hope you're still super into it. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, I know the sound quality is a bit different, |
| 1:20.0 | but at the moment I still feel like it's worth it because of the quality of the guests that I |
| 1:25.6 | that I get to have on and the just the pure representation that I I get to I get to get to have on it so right so you'll enjoy you'll enjoy rightly silverman in a tiny bit first three things first of all I am going on tour. Next year in April, May, June, 2019. I am going on a mixed stand-up and book tour. I will be going to Cambridge, Coventry, Colchester, Cardiff, Manchester, |
| 1:58.0 | Manchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham Leeds, Norwich and Exeter, and there'll be a few more dates and announced. |
| 2:05.2 | So I'll be doing an hour of my stand-up show bubble wrap, which is about body image and being |
| 2:11.9 | a teenager, it's about mental health health and it's a bit about West life |
| 2:15.9 | Yes, it does include some erotica fan fiction |
| 2:19.9 | And then in the second half of the show I'm going to be doing a reading of my upcoming book Happy Fat, |
| 2:26.0 | which is a book about why it's fucking okay to be Fat. |
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