Comedian Jena Friedman - American politics, online trolls and edgelords
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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