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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Sofie talks to Sharan Dhaliwal about Burnt Roti, Oh Queer Cupid, speed dating, sleep paralysis, talking about herself, coming out, being open, being a queer South Asian woman, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Content warning – coronavirus, stigma, mental health issues, lockdown, anxiety, depression, insomnia, eating disorders, sleep paralysis, trauma, therapy, panic attacks, hospitalisation, homophobia, queerphobia
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Produced by Dave Pickering
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0:00.0 | It was really interesting because there were moments in it where I looked back at certain parts of my life when I was younger. |
0:05.7 | It was such an affirming thing to do because it was so rare that I looked back at those moments in such a kind of like open way to myself. So I was talking about certain |
0:15.5 | women that I had been with or I was interested in, but instead of like in my head being like, |
0:21.3 | oh, do you remember that person? I was writing down the experience and it was vividly bringing it back and it just brought back all these like vivid feelings as well. And it was like I had like kept it in so deep that as I wrote it just kind of |
0:35.1 | started coming out of me more and more. |
0:36.7 | You are listening to made of human also known as the mau, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish comedian. |
0:47.7 | Mo-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-O-P-P-P-P-O-P-P-P-I'm trying to find out how to do life |
0:53.2 | but it turns out nobody knows mopah |
0:57.0 | nobody knows mopah first I'm going to just quickly apologize for the background noises. It is a mix of my dog drinking water like he's never had it before. The way he drinks he has a lot of flesh around his |
1:18.0 | nose and mouth and he will just put his entire head into the bowl of water and just sort of go |
1:26.5 | and then I hope that water enters his throat. It's very loud if you could hear that, I do apologize. |
1:34.0 | Also, I think my upstairs neighbors are doing some kind of Irish dance of some sort. |
1:40.0 | And third of all, that is, this one's my fault, there is a roast in the oven because I will be celebrating is a big word, spending Christmas on my own due to, I don't know if you've heard of it this global pandemic so I am practicing |
1:56.3 | making Christmas food. Oh hello again if you can hear, that was my dog sniffing my crutch. |
2:07.0 | So that's that. |
2:10.0 | Now, I am excited to bring to you this episode with Sharon Dallywall. |
2:15.0 | She is this incredibly inspiring, intelligent, hilarious queer Southeast Asian woman who runs and has founded |
2:26.8 | Okay listen she has founded developed and she now runs it the UK's leading South Asian magazine, Burnd Rutti, which is a platform for young |
2:37.4 | creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and destigmatized |
2:41.8 | topics around mental health and sexuality amongst others. |
2:47.0 | I mean, a dream. She is a dream. There's a word for it but it's French and I can't pronounce it. So I'm just going to try |
2:57.6 | Entropaneur. That's embarrassing, isn't it? But that is what she is. |
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