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born 1978 Australia
Hannah Gadsby (born 12 January 1978) is an award-winning Australian stand-up comedian from Smithton, Tasmania whose subjects include small town life, dysfunctional parents, same-sex sexuality, and autism.
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There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.
Ten Steps to Nanette (2022)
Please stop expecting people with autism to be exceptional. It is a basic human right to have average abilities.
Ten Steps to Nanette (2022)
I think there’s something also quite political about a genderqueer performer expressing joy on stage.
Interview (2023)
My mother doesn't like sex. She doesn't like the word, she doesn't like act, and I'm not entirely sure she's too impressed with the results. Ah well, you get out what you put in.
A Netflix deal is fantastic, but it hasn’t changed my life, because I keep my life small.
Interview (2020)
Ever since I can remember, my thoughts have been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack, as if belonging was beyond me.
Ten Steps to Nanette (2022)
I think a helpful way for everybody to think about it is that I’m not on the spectrum: Everybody is on a spectrum. The human brain is on a spectrum, just as gender is.
Interview (2020)
There’s a lot about me that people are like, ‘‘Ah, look, lesbian,’’ and really it’s about me not wanting to think about my physical self so I can just get on with things.
Interview (2020)
I couldn’t have written ‘‘Nanette’’ without understanding that I had autism. I don’t read the world the way other people read it.
Interview (2020)
I am never not cross-referencing the trees with the forests, and it can be a very exhausting way to engage – but I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I believe communities need thinkers like me.
Ten Steps to Nanette (2022)
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