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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Yoga Teacher Jessamyn Stanley - Crying, self care and being a fat black queer person

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary


Sofie talks to Jessamyn Stanley about teaching yoga, understand that the good and the bad have to happen, spending time with people who don’t practice yoga, harvesting compassion, juggling projects, living in a marginalised body in a world prefers for you to be marginalised, happiness, the mixing of good and bad, the value of crying, the relationship between aggression and politics, living in the USA in 2018, gun violence, self care, Harry Potter, being tokenised, the Yoga Industrial Complex, authenticity, unlearning respectability bullshit, taking victories, being a fat black queer person and The Spice Girls reunion.


Trigger warning – suicide, marginalisation, slavery, gun violence


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

I feel like we should all be kind of understanding that the structure that we're living in is

0:04.5

fucking toxic. The foundation is tainted, and it's not coming back. There's no way to fix it.

0:11.0

So we have to either build something new or you can try to destroy that one.

0:16.2

You are listening to Made of Human, also known as the whole part, a podcast hosted by Sophie Fagan, who is a Danish comedian.

0:27.0

Mole Pah, trying to find out how to do life

0:33.0

but it turns out

0:37.0

nobody knows mopah

0:40.0

nobody knows mopah Thank you

0:45.0

and listening to my little podcast, The Made of Human Podcast,

0:51.0

and I cannot blame you because Jessim in Stanley I feel like

0:58.2

Jessim in Stanley should be it's just an answer to everything. But why? Because Jassam and Stanley. I have probably wanted Jassam and Stanley on this

1:09.9

podcast from before I even thought about doing the

1:13.7

podcast. If you don't know Jessman Stanley what are you doing with your life? Go and

1:18.8

check her out on all the social media. You will know her as like I find it hard to not because I'm

1:29.3

so biased because I'm so in love with her. She is so fabulous and just I don't think I've ever used the word fabulous before by the way not unironically but maybe that's what Jasmine Stanley

1:40.7

that's the effect she has in me she is an inspiration and it's a it's another Skype

1:47.5

situation because she's in Durham I think Carolina, over in the America, in the US.

1:55.0

Sorry, I need to stop saying America because that's a recent thing that someone's been calling me out on.

2:00.0

I say America when I mean the U.S.

2:03.4

That's a flaw.

2:05.2

I'm trying to do better.

2:06.2

I do it a few times in the interview as well.

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