"True Talk" puts people in front of the camera who are fighting prejudice or discrimination. They answer questions that nobody would normally dare to ask directly.
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Some people say the hardest thing about being vegan, a person who does not eat or use animal products, is dealing with the antagonism and harassment they face. This includes interrogation-style conversations, sarcastic comments, put-downs and not-so-funny jokes.
Andrea Monica Hug says that she’s typically told that vegans are all “malnourished” and that they’re “always tired and weak.” In fact, she says, since becoming a vegan, she feels much fitter. In this interview, she lets off steam over how poorly informed people are about veganism. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
The lighter and darker sides of being nearly blind
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Yves is visually impaired, but he doesn't feel that he's at a disadvantage. He avoids other visually impaired people who moan about it.
Drug addiction: ‘I pretended I had it under control’
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Reda explains what it was like being a junkie, about the culture of lying, and how the highs are not as great as people might think.
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"True Talk" puts people in front of the camera who are fighting prejudice. We speak to Hitzi, who says Switzerland is not at all wheelchair friendly.
Fynn: ‘I don’t have to choose between being a man or a woman’
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“True Talk” puts people in front of the camera who are fighting prejudice. They answer questions that nobody would normally dare to ask directly. This week, we speak to Fynn who defines himself as non-binary. He says the climate is much safer now for people to declare themselves as trans. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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