Sofieland: The Bunker

Sofie talks to Jena Friedman about being a Jewish woman making political comedy in Trump’s America, getting into comedy through writing an anthropology paper, improv, dealing with online trolls, the history of abortion in the USA and introducing edgelords to feminism in her TV show Soft Focus. 

Trigger warning – Trump, abortion, state violence, nazis, white supremacists, inherited trauma, imposter syndrome, Woody Allen, cults, death, trauma, online abuse, death threats, racism, segregation, rape, incest, ectopic pregnancy, Hitler, sexual assault, guns, mental health issues, police brutality, therapy, OCD

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Crystal Rasmussen/Tom Glitter about their memoir Diary of a Drag Queen, class, bodies, being a drag queen, coming out as gay, then queer, then non-binary, internalised structures, taking their parents to the theatre, having a Danish last name and Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful video. 

Trigger warning – homophobia, transmisogyny, street harassment, being attacked, assault, misgendering, violence, bodies, weight loss, body image, trauma

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Charlie Craggs about travelling round the UK with a portable nail salon talking to people about trans rights, surviving school, grieving her best friend who was killed in Grenfell, and putting together To My Trans Sisters; a book of letters by successful trans women.

Trigger warning – Bullying, PTSD, transphobia (including slurs), homophobia, therapy, trauma, death, bereavement, depression, Grenfell, harassment, femmephobia, suicidal ideation, murders, hate crimes, oppression, misgendering, surgery, gender dysphoria, genitals, transitioning, slutshaming, Catholicism, alcohol, OCD

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Lou Conran about telling personal stories, being in the present, listening to your body, performing comedy at a baby loss awards ceremony, searching for her voice, being bullied at school, roast dinners, dying on stage, resilience and not mixing sweet and savory.

Trigger warning – bereavement, losing a baby, loss, mental health issues, alcohol, dead babies, PTSD, flashbacks, therapy, bullying, meat eating, weight loss, hypnosis, body issues, diets, social anxiety

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Harriet Dyer about making comedy from mental health issues, childhood abuse, bereavement, being bipolar, creating community, (literally) thinking she was Kat Slater from Eastenders, establishing boundaries, having a lovely homelife and sea-monkeys.

Trigger warning (Please note some of the language is visceral and descriptive) – child sexual abuse, rape, kidnapping, violence against children, drug use, death, alcohol use, dentist, suicide, bereavement, suicidal ideation, addiction, death, sectioning, medication, bipolar, violence against pets, stalking, mental health issues, abuse, gaslighting, sex.

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Amy Gledhill about having a sunny disposition, comedy, Hull, gallows humour, feeling like you’ve gotten away with it, walking to Lady Gaga, having a happy childhood, men/love/sex, failure, mice living in her bed, Ikea furniture, getting more scared as you grow older and escaped snakes.

Trigger warning – breakdowns, therapy, trauma, sex, bullying, street harassment. snakes, mice, drugs, death, bereavement, #metoo, sexual harassment

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Da’Shaun Harrison about being a community organiser, growing up in North Carolina in poverty, being a music geek, structural violence, the murder of Mike Brown, Black Lives Matter, AUC Shut It Down, coming to understand themself as non binary and queer, and finding joy and comfort in their queer family.

Trigger warning – poverty, racism, physical and emotional abuse, intimate partner violence, police/state violence, murder, police brutality, suicide, bereavement, religion, trauma

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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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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Sofie talks to Smashlyn Monroe about performing sideshow, childhood trauma, how she got her name, tattoos, piercings, imposter syndrome, being queer, growing up in Foster care, how muggle jobs react to her look and believing Freddy Mercury was her dad.

Trigger warning – ableism, “freak” show, bereavement, death, sexuality, therapy, trauma, abuse, fatphobia, depression, violence

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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Sofie talks to Bethany Rutter about designing clothes, writing books, being a fat teenager, emotional rejection, sharing information about bad dates, sewing, privilege, fat representation, living in the golden age of plus sized fashion and her novel No Big Deal. 

Trigger warning – OCD, fatphobia, anxiety, stigma, humiliation, sex, weight loss  

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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