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Capitulo 005: ¿Pa que me invitan? · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Mommies, a myth and Bullshit, a radio
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Speaker 1: phonic novella Local Radio hosted by malamun Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: keeping time with us. UM, So today we have a
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Speaker 1: lot of things to talk about. UM, it has been
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Speaker 1: a struggle to get this podcast out truly, truly. I
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Speaker 1: will break it down to y'all real quick. Happins you know, Um,
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Speaker 1: Mala has been moving, so we pushed back our recording
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Speaker 1: day for by a week. Um. We tried to record
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Speaker 1: with this Sunday night. Yeah, we tried. We tried to
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Speaker 1: record Sunday night. Our program working. You can tell Molas's sick.
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Speaker 1: So it's just a lot working against us right now. Monday, again,
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Speaker 1: we tried to record and if it happened, so we
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Speaker 1: were like, you know what, we just need to get
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Speaker 1: this done and record on an iPhone. So we downloaded
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Speaker 1: an app we edited on Tuesday, and let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: the quality was so bad. Yeah, we were like we
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Speaker 1: cannot put this out there. Yeah, just because now I
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Speaker 1: quality on this microphone that we have that when we
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Speaker 1: heard the app. You know, we kind of have like
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Speaker 1: a ghost producer who helps us with our He made
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Speaker 1: even with the editing, it just the app is not
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Speaker 1: about it. Some of the audio got cut out. He
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Speaker 1: did his best to save it. But anyway, here we
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Speaker 1: are here, we are thank you for being patient. I
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Speaker 1: know some of y'all have tweeted us commented on Instagram
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Speaker 1: that you were waiting for this next. So here we are. UM.
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Speaker 1: We are going to talk about the inauguration today. We
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Speaker 1: don't want to give it too much attention because there's
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Speaker 1: so much more to talk about, UM, but we want
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Speaker 1: to know, like if did any of you watch it?
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Speaker 1: For you intentionally avoiding the TV that day or social media?
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Speaker 1: What did you do that day? UM? I know I
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Speaker 1: am in particularly me and my mom, we didn't watch it,
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Speaker 1: you know any updates? I saw reviea social media What
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Speaker 1: about you, mama? What how was it for you? So
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Speaker 1: I did watch the morning? Um, the morning of the inauguration,
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Speaker 1: before I went to work, I watched, you know, all
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Speaker 1: the pop and circumstance and the Trump's being greeted by
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Speaker 1: the Obamas and all of that. But then when it
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Speaker 1: became time to introduce Donald Trump and for him to speak,
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Speaker 1: I shut it off and I went to work. I
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Speaker 1: went to work at a rape crisis center. You know,
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Speaker 1: I shut him off and I went to work. Because
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Speaker 1: A I cannot stand to hear him speak. I cannot
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Speaker 1: do it. He's gross. He grosses me out. I find
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Speaker 1: him to be really creepy and disgusting. He makes my
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Speaker 1: skin crawl. I cannot listen to him talk. I can't
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Speaker 1: see the way his mouth moves, his little hand gestures.
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Speaker 1: I cannot do it. Like I have a visceral reaction. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think even like during the campaign, like I don't
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Speaker 1: think I ever sat down and watched more than a
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Speaker 1: minute of any of his quote speeches because I can't
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Speaker 1: do it. It's so like infuriating that there's not so well,
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Speaker 1: of course, that he exists and that he's was put
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Speaker 1: into this position of power. But the folks that are
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Speaker 1: the people that put him into this position of power,
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Speaker 1: that's also what really gets me. It really gets me,
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Speaker 1: the women who support him, white women, we'll talk for him.
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Speaker 1: We'll bring that thing back. You will bring ye mention.
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Speaker 1: But um, I do want to say, like my my
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Speaker 1: immediate reactions, um that day or the immediate changes were
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Speaker 1: the changes in the White House Government page. A lot
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Speaker 1: of pages were taken down. Yeah, the LGBT page was down, Um,
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Speaker 1: the Native American page, climate change, HIV aids, the Spanish
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Speaker 1: language been less. Night. Well, there's been a lot more, right,
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Speaker 1: Like there's I guess this is not just an inauguration episode.
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Speaker 1: This is just we're catching up and trying to catch
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Speaker 1: our breath episodes, right, because every day it's like it's
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Speaker 1: not one thing that's changed or different or it's not
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Speaker 1: to be defunded, but it's like a whole ton of things,
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Speaker 1: everything executive order after executive order. And I just really
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Speaker 1: want to say, shout out white ladies, and shout out
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Speaker 1: latin us and all women who voted for him, for
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's getting the violence against women all.
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Speaker 1: I was about to say, no, like I know that
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Speaker 1: affects the work that we do in particular, um, and
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Speaker 1: how we were also saying that like we're gonna bring
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Speaker 1: back like fem defense in this couple because you have
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Speaker 1: a really interested, interesting perspective on firm defense in terms
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Speaker 1: of like women and violence. Like, do you want to
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Speaker 1: share a little bit about what you your thoughts on that,
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Speaker 1: your brilliance on that on women and violence in regards
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Speaker 1: to fem defense. Yes, well, well how okay, so you
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Speaker 1: know fem defense if you listen to our last cup
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Speaker 1: people little something that we talked about. Um, is this
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Speaker 1: idea that that I've been kind of stewing on that
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Speaker 1: there's this idea that self defense as an idea as
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Speaker 1: a curriculum was started and pioneered by white women right
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Speaker 1: first and foremost. And that is simply not the case.
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Speaker 1: That idea is a historical but you see it repeated
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Speaker 1: a lot in like gender studies classes, in women's groups
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Speaker 1: who you know who practice self defense. There's this idea
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Speaker 1: that it started with women women's lib right. But I believe,
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Speaker 1: and I continue to believe and I know to be
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Speaker 1: true that self defense from defense is something that women
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Speaker 1: of color, colonized people have been practicing for decades. And um,
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Speaker 1: I think that kind of comes back into play with
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Speaker 1: this current conversation and that you have these white women
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Speaker 1: thinking that they're doing themselves a favor my voting for
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Speaker 1: this man. And he turned right around and said, I
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Speaker 1: don't give a funk about you, any of you at all.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get your health care, I'm gonna get violence
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Speaker 1: against women programs. And you know, this is a man
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Speaker 1: who if you watch the inauguration, if you were paying
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Speaker 1: attention at all during the campaigns, he's an abuser. An abuser.
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Speaker 1: I mean the way that he interacts with Melania and
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Speaker 1: the way that he treats her and that dynamic between
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Speaker 1: them tells me a lot about their relationship. But there's
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Speaker 1: definitely abuse this. He's also not even staying in the
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Speaker 1: White House right the first like the very first first lady,
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Speaker 1: you know, to do that, to not live in the
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Speaker 1: White House with the president, right, it's been telling which
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Speaker 1: is having it is? It is? And then you know
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Speaker 1: his ex wife she in their divorce proceedings in New York.
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Speaker 1: I think it was his first wife, Ivanka's mother. I
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Speaker 1: think who um you know had sworn Affi David's and
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Speaker 1: testimony about how he how he abused her and raped
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Speaker 1: her over the course of their relationship. All these other
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Speaker 1: women who have come forward, I believe all of them.
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Speaker 1: I do. And so this is a man who is
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Speaker 1: abusive on an inner personal level and now on a
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Speaker 1: global scale. And then we also know that intimate partner
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Speaker 1: of violence happens between lean your immediate partner. Now, like
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Speaker 1: if you're you know, woman, and you're dating a man, like,
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Speaker 1: most likely he will be the one to abuse you,
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Speaker 1: to sexually assault, And these problems are being defunded, there
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Speaker 1: being defended. If you are a woman in the United
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Speaker 1: States and you date men, have relationships with men, the
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Speaker 1: person who is most likely to murder you is your
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Speaker 1: husband or your boyfriend, or your ex or someone that
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Speaker 1: you maybe weren't came into contact with and said no to. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So keeping all of that in mind that that is
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Speaker 1: a reality always, It's been a reality for a long
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Speaker 1: time that if you're a woman, you're most likely to
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Speaker 1: be harmed or killed by your husband. Keeping that in mind. Now,
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Speaker 1: with the next four years, with violence against women programs
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Speaker 1: being being defunded, it's gonna be just more women are
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Speaker 1: going to die. It's true. That's just that's what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. I blame Donald Trump, honestly, and I blame
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Speaker 1: his family who support him and enable him. I are
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Speaker 1: also being like they're like a part of the cabinet,
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Speaker 1: aren't they some ship? Yes? During his presidency that involved
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Speaker 1: his dictatorship. During his dictatorship, Yes, yeah, Okay, Wow, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of feelings. Really. I went to a training
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Speaker 1: at work and a organization gave a workshop on immigration
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Speaker 1: rights like what's changing now, and it was frightening. And
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm still in that place yeah, where
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, how do I navigate this for my residence,
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Speaker 1: the community I work with. So I feel like I
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Speaker 1: feel I feel less like empowered today and I'm feeling
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Speaker 1: really down today. Yeah. So I know when we first thought,
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Speaker 1: when we first recorded this episode, I was feeling a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of different ways, and like this is day
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Speaker 1: three and it's like, okay, exactly, I'm feeling like a
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Speaker 1: lot more down today. But we're gonna we're gonna leave
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Speaker 1: the inauguration and we're going to talk about something. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna leave it, leave it. We don't want to know,
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Speaker 1: stay away. But yeah, I know. But this is It's
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Speaker 1: interesting though, because this is this is the like really
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Speaker 1: the second time of recording this episode and already how
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Speaker 1: much has changed much like it's a different Copilow altogether.
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Speaker 1: And we'll also I think the energy exchange that you
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Speaker 1: and I are having is different. Yeah, we're not saying
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Speaker 1: the same things, like ideas are still there, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a little different now that it's sucking the
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Speaker 1: third day and so much, as Jane, so much has changed,
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Speaker 1: And I mean, like, you know, I think that what
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Speaker 1: happened to me, I'm really sick right now. After the inauguration,
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Speaker 1: after the Women's March, I lost my voice. I had
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Speaker 1: to take sick days I've been home. I think my
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Speaker 1: body just honestly crashed after all the stress of that,
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Speaker 1: Like it was just it's just so wild to me,
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Speaker 1: and I think that it's so important now more than ever.
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Speaker 1: It's always been important for us as people of color,
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Speaker 1: as women of color, but taking care of yourself self
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Speaker 1: care in real ways is so important because we don't
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Speaker 1: have health care no more. Like that's what I know
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Speaker 1: you and I were talking about that like for us
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Speaker 1: are sometimes our self care is like really basic things
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Speaker 1: like doing our laundry and putting it away and cleaning.
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Speaker 1: And I know, like you and I are both very
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Speaker 1: much into like our spaces being our own, like making
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Speaker 1: sure that we feel like, okay, this is my space,
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Speaker 1: is right, it feels good and I don't really necessarily
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Speaker 1: want anyone else in it, right, especially at this time
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Speaker 1: when I really need to take care of my side. Right,
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Speaker 1: And we were talking about that too, right as like
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Speaker 1: you know, dump him seventeen. That is from defense also
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Speaker 1: some defense and self care in these tumultuous times. You know,
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Speaker 1: it might be the safest option. You know, it might
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Speaker 1: be for for some women to be single during this
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Speaker 1: period of time we have planned parenthood being defunded. If
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Speaker 1: you if you have the ability or the potential to
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Speaker 1: carry a child, you know, maybe now is a good
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Speaker 1: time to be single. That's how I feel. From men
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Speaker 1: say like dump them all two K seven for our
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Speaker 1: queer listeners like the state men, but you know they'll
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Speaker 1: still experience violence and dating, like dump them all two
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Speaker 1: K seventeen. Take care of you. Yeah, yeah, okay, So
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about now the Women's March. Yes,
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Speaker 1: did you go? We know you went. We saw the photo.
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Speaker 1: I know, like y'all have seen the photo instagram of
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Speaker 1: malad killing it. You. Um, so if you're willing, do
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Speaker 1: you want to share a little bit about your experience. Yeah. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: So the Women's March, Um, I went specifically with my work.
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Speaker 1: I went with my job. We had like a contingent
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Speaker 1: that we organized, and we had our signs, and we
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Speaker 1: were marching and we were chanting, and we were there
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Speaker 1: specifically on as survivors and for survivors. We were there
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Speaker 1: to talk about sexual violence. We were there to talk
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Speaker 1: about consent, We were there to talk about about survivors
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Speaker 1: and and our needs. Um. So all of our chants
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Speaker 1: and our signs were survivor focused and survivor centric and
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Speaker 1: I was really proud to add that, you know, to
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Speaker 1: that element to the march because I didn't see around me,
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Speaker 1: I saw lots of different signs like we've talked about
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Speaker 1: before about like you know, um, pussy this and pussy that,
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Speaker 1: and you know, vagina power and all these things, but
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Speaker 1: I saw few are signs that were related to like
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Speaker 1: you know, undocumented folks or survivors or queer folks. Those
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Speaker 1: causes seemed to be more sparse at the mark, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think. Um, I didn't go. I actually took a
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Speaker 1: dance class that day and it was really beautiful because
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Speaker 1: the instructor. Is this really we're going to bring her
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Speaker 1: on the show. So I'm not going to say too
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Speaker 1: much about UM. But she like led the class and
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Speaker 1: she was like OI squid boss. So we're taking care
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Speaker 1: of our bodies, like we're taking care of our mental health.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna dance today, and we respect and power
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Speaker 1: to the women that are marching, you know, the folks
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Speaker 1: that are marching. UM. So for me, that's not like
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Speaker 1: that's what I needed because I didn't have a group
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Speaker 1: of people that I was going with and I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to, you know, deal with my social anxiety or
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Speaker 1: like even in crowds, like by myself. You know. I
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Speaker 1: was like, if I had a safe group to go with,
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Speaker 1: I would have been down. But I didn't really have
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Speaker 1: a plan, and from what I heard, it was really
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Speaker 1: hectic just to get to downtown. My life. It was.
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Speaker 1: I saw the UM like the Metro was completely like
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Speaker 1: it took the Metro with there was a huge lag.
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Speaker 1: I know, a lot of there were a lot of
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Speaker 1: puck teaching, UM, the teaching white folks how to how
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Speaker 1: to ride the Metro for the first time. So that
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Speaker 1: was interesting. UM. There's a lot going on at the
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Speaker 1: time in downtown even like ubers were like fifty bucks
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Speaker 1: and all of that. So, yeah, it was really hectic.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, the march what was cool because, um,
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Speaker 1: I there were so many people there. I was just
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Speaker 1: happy that there were so many people there. You know,
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Speaker 1: there was a good turnout. There was a very long
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Speaker 1: period of time where we couldn't march anywhere because it
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Speaker 1: was so packed, you know. Um, but that's also good. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's also good. But speaking of of what you were
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Speaker 1: talking about in terms of like going with the group
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Speaker 1: or with the community, you know, I think that something
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Speaker 1: that I did see is that when I did see
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Speaker 1: pockets of like people of color, it was clear that
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Speaker 1: people showed up with their folks, you know, like with
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Speaker 1: their community to represent their communities, which is good, you know,
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Speaker 1: which is good. It Um something else that has been
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Speaker 1: going on in terms of the women's marches, pointing out
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Speaker 1: the fact that there were really no arrests made. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we have a lot to say about a lot to
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Speaker 1: say about. Um, we saw not only here in l
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Speaker 1: A via social media, but throughout the country that there
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Speaker 1: were white women taking pictures with the police, you know,
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Speaker 1: feeling safe enough to be first of all, that close
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Speaker 1: to a police officer. Um, yeah, what's let's let's talk
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Speaker 1: about this whole like the notion and privilege of safety. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well,
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Speaker 1: first let me say, you know, like like especially in
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Speaker 1: terms of like survivors and stuff, dealing with the police
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Speaker 1: is such a complicated issue because on the one hand,
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Speaker 1: as far as reporting any type of assaulter, abuse, or
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Speaker 1: or receiving any services, the way that our laws, our city, state,
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Speaker 1: and federal laws are set up really requires you to
14:55
Speaker 1: interact with law enforcement and to report if you want
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Speaker 1: access to certain services and certain help. Right. So, on
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Speaker 1: the one hand, like a lot of women, a lot
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Speaker 1: of queer folks, a lot of survivors must interact with
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Speaker 1: the police, but those interactions are quite often very abusive, exactly,
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Speaker 1: very abusive. For instance, if you're an undocumented person and
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Speaker 1: you are a victim of a crime, which could be
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Speaker 1: sexual sault or rape, like you're eligible for a visa
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Speaker 1: and to become to get citizenship, but you have to
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Speaker 1: file a police report. You have to go through those
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Speaker 1: through that like bureaucracy, like those steps. So that's that's
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Speaker 1: another traumatic event that you have to go through. It's
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Speaker 1: so layered and it's actually really shitty because the desk
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Speaker 1: officer that you talked to could just decide he doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to file a report for you. Right, So that's
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Speaker 1: actually a conversation that we could probably have like more
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Speaker 1: in depth an other time because there's so many layers
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Speaker 1: to that. But back to the Women's March, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's that aspect of it is that in my everyday life,
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Speaker 1: I see very clearly people who are very vulnerable, who
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Speaker 1: are survivors, who are is by police all the time,
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Speaker 1: all the fucking time, Like, it's very very common, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of what we do is trying to go
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Speaker 1: to the police and and getting them to cooperate and
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Speaker 1: getting them to help people because a lot of times
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Speaker 1: they're really they are they just they are. And then
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Speaker 1: the other half of it is like, you know, law
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Speaker 1: enforcement has a higher rate of abuse and domestic violence
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Speaker 1: than any other population. Like police officers abuse their spouses
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Speaker 1: their partners twice as often as anybody else. So we're
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Speaker 1: here at the Women's March, right, and we're here, you know,
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Speaker 1: on behalf of survivors and on behalf of women. Theoretically
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Speaker 1: both all these white ladies are over here like high
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Speaker 1: fighting police officers. It's wild, and Black Lives Matter was present,
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Speaker 1: you know, at different marches throughout the country, and what
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Speaker 1: about them? And what about all the black people that
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Speaker 1: get killed by police every year and the trans people
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Speaker 1: who are abused by police every year. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: it's just there's a huge disconnect. Yeah, and then you
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Speaker 1: know something that I think we we we both said
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Speaker 1: that we saw in our own communities or via social media.
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Speaker 1: There were so many shares of like how to keep
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Speaker 1: yourself safe out of march, so like write you write
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Speaker 1: your information on a in a sharp on your arm,
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Speaker 1: Like make sure you have like something to cover your mouth,
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Speaker 1: to cover your eyes in peace, you get to your guests.
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Speaker 1: All these preparations because in the past year we have
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Speaker 1: seen how violence the police have gotten towards protesters and
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Speaker 1: illustrators and marches very like that generally could be peaceful.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not, that's another conversation about about protests. Um, so
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Speaker 1: everyone was prepared in that way, I like having the
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Speaker 1: number of an attorney And what was it like the
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Speaker 1: majority of that marches were white women and it was
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Speaker 1: also non violent, like by days, Like what did that
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Speaker 1: tell us? You know, a whole lot a lot. I mean,
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Speaker 1: so here we have like on Twitter and on Instagram
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Speaker 1: and online specifically people of color, black people giving tips,
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Speaker 1: you know, on how to stay safe during a demonstration,
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Speaker 1: during a march, during a protest, and that preparation that
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Speaker 1: people of color took, I can guarantee like the vast
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Speaker 1: majority of the white ladies who went to this march
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Speaker 1: and their husbands and their boyfriends didn't take those kinds
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Speaker 1: of preparations, probably didn't even think that they would be
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Speaker 1: met with violence or retaliation because that's not their historical
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Speaker 1: experience me and I'm sure that there weren't that many
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Speaker 1: people in their network that even mentioned that possibility. And
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Speaker 1: to them, it was like a pro women's reproductive rights march,
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Speaker 1: the same thing, like keep your hands off my pussy,
18:37
Speaker 1: like that kind of rhetoric. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, this white
18:40
Speaker 1: women rhetoric. Absolutely, And I mean, you know, it's like
18:44
Speaker 1: the fact that people of color and black people specifically
18:47
Speaker 1: have to go to such lengths, such tedious lengths to
18:51
Speaker 1: prepare to to just to exercise a constitutional right exactly.
18:57
Speaker 1: Protesting is a right that is embedded in the Constitution.
19:00
Speaker 1: I have the right to go out in march and protests,
19:02
Speaker 1: but the fact that more often than not, if you're
19:04
Speaker 1: black or brown, you can expect that just exercising you're right,
19:09
Speaker 1: you'll be met with violence and retaliation from the police,
19:12
Speaker 1: from the state, from law enforcement, from our our judicial system.
19:17
Speaker 1: Like that's ridiculous. And the fact that white women don't
19:19
Speaker 1: have that same fear is very very very telling. Yes, exactly. Um.
19:26
Speaker 1: Also like shows that if folks use their privilege the
19:30
Speaker 1: right way, like if they're actually acknowledging and deconstructing their privilege,
19:33
Speaker 1: like they could show up to marches and not thinking
19:36
Speaker 1: not by taking up space the last to physically like
19:39
Speaker 1: be there, you know, like using their bodies, you know,
19:42
Speaker 1: for folks that are more vulnerable. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean
19:45
Speaker 1: And it was a black woman on Twitter who tweeted
19:49
Speaker 1: and said something to the effect of, well, you know,
19:52
Speaker 1: if this protest was full of white ladies and the
19:54
Speaker 1: police didn't attack you, then maybe more white ladies need
19:57
Speaker 1: to go to more protests, totally Black Lives Matter protests,
20:00
Speaker 1: you know, line those streets. Yes, with your fragility, the
20:05
Speaker 1: police are afraid to tap on you know what I mean.
20:08
Speaker 1: So yeah, because it's like, you know, the nation's like
20:11
Speaker 1: duty to protect white women and their fragility, and then
20:13
Speaker 1: they're delicate femininity right now, right m M, I think
20:17
Speaker 1: we should go to a song. Yes, let's take a
20:21
Speaker 1: song break pod caster and and and and and and
20:38
Speaker 1: and and and and and um um um um um um.
21:06
Speaker 1: And you know, moving forward with this scaffo, we want
21:12
Speaker 1: to intentionally talk about the experience, actually read from the
21:15
Speaker 1: experiences of black, trans and Native American women that were
21:19
Speaker 1: at the march. And yes, yes, so, um, we're gonna
21:24
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna read, um some quotes,
21:26
Speaker 1: like some direct quotes from their either social media or
21:30
Speaker 1: interviews that they've had since the march. Um. So we're
21:33
Speaker 1: gonna start with this black woman activists named Angela Peoples. Um.
21:40
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you have a lot of you
21:42
Speaker 1: have probably seen it floating around. This picture. I saw
21:44
Speaker 1: it actually on Chicama. Um. And it's this photo of
21:48
Speaker 1: a black woman and she's wearing a hat that says
21:50
Speaker 1: stop killing Black people, and she's holding a sign that says,
21:54
Speaker 1: don't forget white women voted for Trump. And the photo
21:58
Speaker 1: is so iconic to me because in the back there
22:01
Speaker 1: are three women, you know, wearing their pink pussy hats
22:05
Speaker 1: on their phones taking selfies, which is cool, you know,
22:08
Speaker 1: power to the selfie. Um, but it just set is
22:11
Speaker 1: it's set so perfectly, especially with these you know, pink
22:14
Speaker 1: pussy hats, because not every woman has a pussy, and
22:17
Speaker 1: not every woman's pussy or every person's pussy is pak
22:21
Speaker 1: like I fish, you're no mind, is it? Is it right? Like?
22:26
Speaker 1: Uh no? And also now that women have pussies and
22:28
Speaker 1: that's not what you know, equating you know, woman's womanhood
22:32
Speaker 1: to genitalia is wrong. Yeah, so yeah, incorrect. I love her,
22:38
Speaker 1: I love her, I love Angela People's and I love
22:40
Speaker 1: all the all of the activists, all the women of color,
22:44
Speaker 1: all the trans women that we're going to be quoting
22:46
Speaker 1: today reading fund because each and every one of them,
22:49
Speaker 1: in one way or another, sorry it's okay, in one
22:54
Speaker 1: way or another. At the march, they took up space,
22:58
Speaker 1: They marked that space in history. They said we're here,
23:02
Speaker 1: don't forget us, tony racist, and they held white women accountable,
23:06
Speaker 1: which is something that white women are not used to.
23:09
Speaker 1: White people in don't know what accountability means. You need
23:13
Speaker 1: to get over it. You need to stop focusing on Hey,
23:16
Speaker 1: life focused on love. Love is like unifying and all
23:18
Speaker 1: of that bullshit. Right, So, after this photo went viral, Um,
23:23
Speaker 1: you know who knows how like if she saw it
23:26
Speaker 1: or who saw it or whatever. But her name is
23:28
Speaker 1: angew People. She is a co director of an LGBT
23:33
Speaker 1: organization called Get Equal, and The Route actually did an
23:36
Speaker 1: interview with her, So I actually just want to read
23:40
Speaker 1: her response to the question how was the march for you?
23:44
Speaker 1: You know, what was your experience? So Angela People says,
23:49
Speaker 1: it definitely felt very white. The other black women that
23:52
Speaker 1: I talked to there, and even women in other marches
23:54
Speaker 1: around the country felt like they were alone, like more
23:57
Speaker 1: of the same was happening. I know that a lot
23:59
Speaker 1: of the organizers, particularly particularly of the DC March, did
24:02
Speaker 1: a lot of work to make sure that the speakers
24:04
Speaker 1: were diverse, that the issue points reflected black folks experiences.
24:08
Speaker 1: But there's also this reality that when we talk about
24:11
Speaker 1: feminism in this country, the faces have been white. Without
24:14
Speaker 1: an effort by white women, especially to make sure those
24:17
Speaker 1: spaces are reflecting the diversity of women and fem people,
24:21
Speaker 1: we're not going to make the progress we need to powerful.
24:25
Speaker 1: So it continues, um The Route They ask her after
24:28
Speaker 1: this march, are you hopeful that white women will show
24:30
Speaker 1: up for black women and the issues of people of color?
24:33
Speaker 1: Angela People says, I definitely have hope, but I don't
24:36
Speaker 1: think it's a matter of white women becoming interested in
24:38
Speaker 1: our issues. I need them to recognize their implicit or
24:41
Speaker 1: complicit benefactors of systems like white supremacy and patriarchy. And
24:45
Speaker 1: that's a problem, right, complicit and implicit. And they bet
24:49
Speaker 1: their benefactors. They benefit from these systems that are put
24:52
Speaker 1: into place that oppressed people of color and black folks,
24:55
Speaker 1: and transfolks and queer folks, Native Americans, and the list
24:59
Speaker 1: goes on. And not only do they benefit from it,
25:01
Speaker 1: but a lot of white women intentionally perpetuate it, intentionally
25:06
Speaker 1: them you need to get your people, Yes, that's Trump.
25:10
Speaker 1: You need to get your people. Yeah. Yeah, if you're
25:13
Speaker 1: a white woman, I would say that your next cause,
25:18
Speaker 1: your next humanitarian effort. Don't go to a third world country, echically,
25:23
Speaker 1: don't go to the global South. Go over here to
25:26
Speaker 1: your local suburb and go door to door and talk
25:29
Speaker 1: to your white ladies. That count of your next humanitarian effort. Yes,
25:33
Speaker 1: your next like social like neighborhood council meeting, like whatever
25:37
Speaker 1: it is that white people do, whatever the things that
25:41
Speaker 1: they do for being racist and benefactors of the white supremacy. Um, hopefully,
25:46
Speaker 1: but that is a conversation that they can have amongst
25:48
Speaker 1: themselves themselves, right. Yeah. You know today when I was
25:52
Speaker 1: in my meeting, like I was, I was in a
25:54
Speaker 1: meeting with like folks that are case workers, they're representatives
25:58
Speaker 1: from different organizations and all that, um. And I was
26:01
Speaker 1: like looking at the white women in there, and I
26:02
Speaker 1: was like, which one are y'all voted for Trump? Right?
26:04
Speaker 1: Because we were there talking about how Trump is literally
26:07
Speaker 1: terrorizing her, how his administration will literally terrorize our communities,
26:11
Speaker 1: are immigrant communities especially, And they were like, we know
26:15
Speaker 1: some white women in there, and I was just like
26:16
Speaker 1: feeling like one of you had to have voted. I'm
26:19
Speaker 1: positive because if there's thirty of us in this room,
26:22
Speaker 1: one of you, I'm positive voted for him and um.
26:26
Speaker 1: And it made me really outset, you know. And yes,
26:29
Speaker 1: so you need to White people need to get the people.
26:31
Speaker 1: You know, we as Latinas, like we need to get
26:34
Speaker 1: our people because there are there are some single issue
26:37
Speaker 1: voters that voted for Trump. Yes, you know, especially I
26:40
Speaker 1: think a lot of Latinos voted on the abortion issue. Right,
26:44
Speaker 1: They voted on the abortion issue, and they probably always
26:47
Speaker 1: vote on the abortion issue. Did we say I think
26:49
Speaker 1: you had mentioned it was fourteen percent. I think you
26:51
Speaker 1: mentioned it was sixteen percent. Did it was in the teens,
26:56
Speaker 1: somewhere higher than sixteen yeah, Iven it should have been.
27:01
Speaker 1: Black women voted for Hillary. Yeah, I'm positive Hillary did
27:04
Speaker 1: not represent all of their values and what their community needs,
27:08
Speaker 1: but they did it, you know, they voted them. Meanwhile,
27:13
Speaker 1: white women voted for Trump. Yeah. And let me say
27:15
Speaker 1: this that at my polling place, which is a church
27:18
Speaker 1: not too far from where I live, the well, I
27:22
Speaker 1: went to two polling places because I plucked up the
27:23
Speaker 1: first time when I went to the wrong place, and
27:25
Speaker 1: then they sent me to the right place, the hot miss.
27:27
Speaker 1: But I'm like, let me go vote. Um. The polling
27:30
Speaker 1: workers at both locations. The first location, they were all
27:34
Speaker 1: older black women. They're working making sure people are voting.
27:37
Speaker 1: At the second location, it was a mix of black women,
27:41
Speaker 1: black men, and Latinos who were working the polls. Right,
27:44
Speaker 1: So it was people of color making sure that people
27:46
Speaker 1: were there and that the Democratic process was actually taking place,
27:51
Speaker 1: and I just want that to be known. I mean
27:53
Speaker 1: not to like deflect too much, but I know that
27:55
Speaker 1: there were cases of people being turned turned away the
27:59
Speaker 1: whole booths. Yeah, definitely, I think in the San Fernando
28:02
Speaker 1: Valley that crazy stuff was happening. But but I've lost
28:06
Speaker 1: my train of thought. No, yeah, that's look back. I
28:10
Speaker 1: know that you we have more we want to read.
28:13
Speaker 1: You have something that you want to read from a
28:15
Speaker 1: Native American activist was present at the d C march. Yes,
28:20
Speaker 1: so can you? Can you read that for us? Yeah? So,
28:23
Speaker 1: the there's a Native woman her Twitter hands all. She
28:27
Speaker 1: goes by Sydney Rain, and I'm going to read a
28:30
Speaker 1: tweet thread that she put out after the march talking
28:33
Speaker 1: about her experience and the experiences of the Native women
28:36
Speaker 1: with her at the DC march. When the march begins,
28:41
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by white women holding up signs like smash
28:44
Speaker 1: the patriarchy, keep your hands off our pussies, and so forth.
28:48
Speaker 1: We begin our first chance, Minnie Wee Cony water is life.
28:53
Speaker 1: White women look confused, white women staring at us or
28:56
Speaker 1: just acting oblivious like we weren't there. And it makes
28:59
Speaker 1: me so so fucking angry to type this the tone
29:03
Speaker 1: deafness of all these angry white supremacists around me, their
29:06
Speaker 1: lack of care. Our lives as Indigenous women are intersectional
29:10
Speaker 1: by necessity. Every day it's life or death for us
29:14
Speaker 1: in the settler colonial terrorist regime. I'm crying now typing this.
29:20
Speaker 1: One day it's a pipeline. The next our babies are stolen, next,
29:23
Speaker 1: our sisters go missing, next were killed by cops. And
29:27
Speaker 1: then marching and trying to hold my head up and
29:29
Speaker 1: remembering my Muskoky ancestors who marched on the trail of
29:33
Speaker 1: tears for me to be here. The whole time, I
29:37
Speaker 1: am treated by non natives and especially white women, like
29:40
Speaker 1: a marching spectacle, while they refuse my flyers like a
29:43
Speaker 1: real life museum. They only stopped to pay attention to
29:47
Speaker 1: us when we drummed and sang our Women's Warriors song round, danced,
29:51
Speaker 1: or to say we have pretty costumes. These white women
29:55
Speaker 1: are saying, this is just the beginning. Our ancestors have
29:59
Speaker 1: marched since fort two. This is our whole lives, This
30:02
Speaker 1: is who we are. White women do not understand the
30:06
Speaker 1: complexities of our reality as children of this grandmother Earth.
30:09
Speaker 1: Indigenous to her lands, and they don't want to. White
30:15
Speaker 1: women want to call me their sister, But my sisters
30:18
Speaker 1: don't touch me or my regalia without my permission. They
30:21
Speaker 1: don't speak over me. You white woman with a transphobic
30:24
Speaker 1: sign about your your vagina being your womanhood, white woman
30:28
Speaker 1: that is a colonizer on my land, are not my sister.
30:31
Speaker 1: The opposite. You want me to hold hands with you
30:33
Speaker 1: and sing Kumbaya and be equal while you stand on
30:36
Speaker 1: our ancestors graves. And this is your first march. You
30:39
Speaker 1: white women are complicit in my genocide. And until you
30:43
Speaker 1: abandon your white fragility and acknowledge this, you're a white supremacist,
30:47
Speaker 1: not a feminist. What did I learn from the way
30:50
Speaker 1: white women treated Native women at Women's March? That we
30:53
Speaker 1: aren't human, just museums of a past. You know nothing
30:55
Speaker 1: about two white women. We are living museums of a
30:58
Speaker 1: past you refused to acknowledge, refused to learn about, treated
31:01
Speaker 1: as a guest on our own ancestral lands. White feminists
31:05
Speaker 1: treat us like we are burdens or that we are
31:07
Speaker 1: divisive because it's inconvenient for you to let go of
31:10
Speaker 1: your whiteness, who heavy heavy but important. I love how
31:18
Speaker 1: she says, you know, our white women are saying, this
31:20
Speaker 1: is the beginning. Our ancestors have marched since fourtwo, this
31:24
Speaker 1: is our whole lives, this is who we are. And
31:26
Speaker 1: that's then to send to say that that is what
31:29
Speaker 1: the defense is. We've been doing this wherever y for century,
31:33
Speaker 1: not the beginning, Like folks have not started to organize
31:37
Speaker 1: now because Trump was elected. Yeah, it's organizing during Obama
31:42
Speaker 1: lay like hundreds of years always. Folks have always organized
31:46
Speaker 1: people of people that have always been organizing. Yeah, and
31:49
Speaker 1: it's infuriating when like, oh, I was talking to like
31:52
Speaker 1: my co workers about this. We were texting about this
31:54
Speaker 1: today because some horrible man went and wrote an opinion
31:57
Speaker 1: piece that the l a time when I had n't
32:00
Speaker 1: published where he was talking about. You know, there you
32:03
Speaker 1: have to look at the bigger picture. The women's March
32:05
Speaker 1: focused on you know, small issues and this and that exactly.
32:08
Speaker 1: I'm like, first of all, I know I was there
32:11
Speaker 1: not talking about small issues. We were there talking about
32:14
Speaker 1: sexual violence, like like life and death ship like for real,
32:18
Speaker 1: like in real ways, you know, And I think that
32:21
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with what you just said,
32:23
Speaker 1: because I'm pretty sure that after every single march or
32:26
Speaker 1: protest led by women or people of color ever in history,
32:31
Speaker 1: there has always been a crop of really uninformed and
32:34
Speaker 1: really loud white men who are going to criticize and say, oh, well,
32:38
Speaker 1: you're not focusing on the right ship, or why are
32:40
Speaker 1: you just talking about this now? Like there's so many
32:42
Speaker 1: people who have this really short view of history and
32:47
Speaker 1: every protest it's like they just were turned on that
32:50
Speaker 1: day and they think like, oh, this is the first
32:52
Speaker 1: protest ever, I'm gonna respond to this, you know, like
32:54
Speaker 1: they have such a historical view and it's infuriating. Yeah,
32:59
Speaker 1: but any rain and thank you broke it down so
33:03
Speaker 1: many real ways and like so real to her experience
33:06
Speaker 1: as a Native American women on colonized land, you know,
33:10
Speaker 1: and we exactly and we didn't get to we didn't.
33:14
Speaker 1: It's it's a long thread. So if you have Twitter
33:17
Speaker 1: or you're on social media, like I'm sure that you've
33:20
Speaker 1: seen it, it's going around. But the beginning of the
33:22
Speaker 1: thread she is, you know, she thinks her community that
33:26
Speaker 1: she was with, she thinks the Native American women that
33:28
Speaker 1: she was with, her sisters, or like making it a
33:30
Speaker 1: safe space um within their prayer circle and that, but
33:34
Speaker 1: also acknowledging that when she stepped out of it, it
33:37
Speaker 1: was no longer safe. She was a museum, she was
33:40
Speaker 1: a spectacle. She was subhuman, you know, she was looked
33:45
Speaker 1: at the way white women look at people of color
33:47
Speaker 1: and black folks. Right. Absolutely, So, thank you Sydney Rain
33:50
Speaker 1: and to all the Native women who showed up, all
33:52
Speaker 1: the trans women who showed up, the black women, the
33:55
Speaker 1: latinas you know, because good, I'm glad. Blame your space, yes,
34:02
Speaker 1: And that's why we're talking about the march on this,
34:05
Speaker 1: on this because we were there. Okay, we were there
34:08
Speaker 1: and we were participating, and we marked our space. And
34:11
Speaker 1: I just feel like if women of color were involved,
34:14
Speaker 1: then it needs to be documented. It needs to be acknowledged,
34:16
Speaker 1: It needs to be celebrated, It needs to be in
34:18
Speaker 1: the books everywhere. So that's why we're doing this. This
34:21
Speaker 1: is our little mark on history. Yeah, we we need
34:24
Speaker 1: to acknowledge this point of history from our our fan perspective,
34:28
Speaker 1: fem woman of color perspective. Um, I know that you
34:31
Speaker 1: have another activisty you want to share with us, is
34:34
Speaker 1: actually a speaker also at the DC march. Yes, Um
34:38
Speaker 1: Raquel Willis. She is a queer black transgender woman, and
34:44
Speaker 1: she does really good work at the Trans Law Center,
34:48
Speaker 1: and she did speak at the march in d C.
34:51
Speaker 1: And something that she talked about afterwards is the fact
34:54
Speaker 1: that she didn't get to deliver her whole speech because
34:57
Speaker 1: her mic got cut off in the middle, deadly, sedentally exactly,
35:02
Speaker 1: very shady. So, you know, just to honor her and
35:06
Speaker 1: to honor her words, um, and to honor all the
35:09
Speaker 1: black trans women that exists, you know, like, um, we
35:14
Speaker 1: wanted to read for Miquel Willis her speech and this
35:18
Speaker 1: can be found on Twitter. The text can also be
35:21
Speaker 1: found on her website, Raquel Willis dot com. Today, I
35:26
Speaker 1: stand here as a queer black transgender woman from Augusta, Georgia.
35:30
Speaker 1: But I am more than these labels. I am also
35:32
Speaker 1: a daughter, a sister and auntie, a friend, a lover,
35:36
Speaker 1: a human, a feminist. And although I'm glad to be
35:39
Speaker 1: here now, it's disheartening that women like me were an
35:42
Speaker 1: afterthought in the initial planning of this march. Many of
35:45
Speaker 1: us had to stand a little taller to be heard,
35:48
Speaker 1: and that exclusion is nothing new. Trans women of color
35:52
Speaker 1: like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera lit the fire
35:55
Speaker 1: on the l g B t q I A rights movement,
35:58
Speaker 1: but we're quickly pushed aside. They share a common thread
36:02
Speaker 1: with another revolutionary woman. I look up to Sobjorter Truth,
36:06
Speaker 1: just like her. Black women, other women of color, trans women,
36:10
Speaker 1: queer women, and many others are still asking an I
36:14
Speaker 1: A women. As we commit to each other to build
36:17
Speaker 1: this movement of resistance and liberation, no one can be
36:20
Speaker 1: an afterthought. We have a chance to be stronger and
36:23
Speaker 1: better than we ever have before. And that starts with
36:25
Speaker 1: having hard conversations and being held accountable. Yes again about
36:30
Speaker 1: accountability and history, market marketing or naming actually naming the
36:37
Speaker 1: trans women, and you know Sojotor Truth and what they
36:40
Speaker 1: did for history, how they paved the way for a
36:42
Speaker 1: lot of activists now, you know, not only in the
36:46
Speaker 1: Black liberation movement, but and also in the l g
36:48
Speaker 1: B t q I A movement, you know, you know,
36:51
Speaker 1: and and Women's Live did not start with Caddie B.
36:55
Speaker 1: Stanton or whatever her name is, you know, like it
36:57
Speaker 1: like Sobjorter Truth, Like that's that's law history, you know,
37:01
Speaker 1: like wait before yes, yes, so yeah, thank you. Roquel
37:06
Speaker 1: willis beautiful words beautiful words and then you have one more,
37:09
Speaker 1: but do I Actually mine is not a speech, but
37:12
Speaker 1: it's actually a photo from Instagram from Translatina activist Bambi.
37:18
Speaker 1: She is an amazing, amazing activist. She's here in La
37:21
Speaker 1: but she was at the Philly um March because she's
37:24
Speaker 1: at creating change or was that creating page um and
37:28
Speaker 1: the photo is super badass. She is holding a sign
37:32
Speaker 1: that says a lamamuro and it looks like a wall
37:35
Speaker 1: set of flame. Um. And then the cat is resistentia
37:41
Speaker 1: Rasismo Resistance to Racism, hashtag Translatina Power, hashtags Latina hashtag
37:47
Speaker 1: Trans Latina Coalition and La Lucha um. And she is
37:51
Speaker 1: an incredible activist. Um. She has a documentary about her
37:55
Speaker 1: life and what she's gone through. She has an incredible
37:58
Speaker 1: story called a documentary is called Transit and Um. She's
38:04
Speaker 1: also on Janet Monks HBO trans list. Yeah. So she's
38:09
Speaker 1: like super dope. She has such a kind heart. She
38:12
Speaker 1: actually spoke at my university's um lavender graduation, so our
38:17
Speaker 1: LGBTQ graduation. And she is incredible. So if you know
38:21
Speaker 1: who she is, you know, and if you don't, you
38:23
Speaker 1: need to know. You know Wash your documentary. Um, she's
38:26
Speaker 1: very active in l A, so she's she's got a
38:29
Speaker 1: lot of things. So yeah, shout out to Bambi because
38:32
Speaker 1: she is really dope. All these women, all these brilliant
38:36
Speaker 1: women who were there, who are representing, who were holding women,
38:40
Speaker 1: white women, white people in general accountable, and that is
38:44
Speaker 1: so important, you know, and and we need to keep
38:47
Speaker 1: doing it. We just have to keep doing it. You know.
38:50
Speaker 1: We can't enable the silencing, we can't enable the erasure.
38:54
Speaker 1: We have to speak out about it. We have to
38:56
Speaker 1: mark our places in history. We have to create our
38:59
Speaker 1: sign we have to create our marches, our podcast, our blogs,
39:03
Speaker 1: our content. We have to because nobody else is going
39:06
Speaker 1: to do that for us exactly. And also give credit
39:09
Speaker 1: where credit is due, yes, you know, and that was
39:12
Speaker 1: one of the main reasons. Well, well, yes, we can
39:14
Speaker 1: talk about you know, the different marches all over the country.
39:17
Speaker 1: But oh and we can also read like actual experiences
39:20
Speaker 1: from these diverse women, you know, and hold space for
39:24
Speaker 1: them and the folks that are also part of that community.
39:26
Speaker 1: Yeah about um. On that note, you know, I want
39:30
Speaker 1: us to to wrap up this Women's March conversation because
39:33
Speaker 1: we have some exciting things to share with our listeners.
39:37
Speaker 1: So we have been anxiously wanting to share UM and
39:41
Speaker 1: we have a couple events coming up in l A. UM.
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Speaker 1: Two of them are in l a So our first
39:47
Speaker 1: event is with me Vida there in Highland Park on
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Speaker 1: York And Avenue fifty two. We generally record there UM
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Speaker 1: and our first event is on February and we are
39:59
Speaker 1: femcyeing Ay All Women's Artists Showcase. So we're super excited
40:04
Speaker 1: to be there UM to hold space with that community,
40:08
Speaker 1: to you know them, See, this is our first event
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Speaker 1: there gonna be so I'm real life sided. Shout out
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Speaker 1: always to the team at me v that for you know,
40:16
Speaker 1: wanting to collab with us. Yeah, thank you guys so
40:19
Speaker 1: much because they've been really so supportive and instrumental and
40:22
Speaker 1: helpful and I love it. Thank you, Thank you guys. UM.
40:26
Speaker 1: And we have another event coming up UM in the
40:29
Speaker 1: beginning of March. So do you want to tell us yes? Um.
40:32
Speaker 1: Bona Um, known as Bona Music on Instagram, is an
40:37
Speaker 1: l A area. She's a singer, she's a songwriter, she's
40:40
Speaker 1: a violinist. She is just a savant and I love
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Speaker 1: Bona with my whole being shout up, Banna, I know
40:46
Speaker 1: you're listening. Her EP release party is going to be
40:50
Speaker 1: taking place on March three at the Boil Heights Arts Conservatory. UM.
40:56
Speaker 1: I don't know if she wanted me to really shout
40:58
Speaker 1: out the whole event on the chest, but I'm going to,
41:02
Speaker 1: you know, come out. We're gonna SEM see that event too,
41:04
Speaker 1: and we're actually gonna play some music. We're not DJs,
41:07
Speaker 1: We're we're staying the lane. But you know we were
41:11
Speaker 1: asked to day and to them. See. Yeah, Mala and
41:14
Speaker 1: Donna are actually really tight and I'm looking forward to
41:16
Speaker 1: working with Donna in this UM, in this event coming up.
41:20
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Yes, we also have one UM
41:24
Speaker 1: events in March. It's gonna be on a Saturday, March fourth,
41:27
Speaker 1: and it's actually in Santa Barbara, So Santa Barbara folks,
41:30
Speaker 1: come through. It's gonna be at the it's gonna be
41:33
Speaker 1: at UC Santa Barbara, and the Multicultural Center is putting
41:36
Speaker 1: on a social justice conference called Collective Resistance and Healing.
41:41
Speaker 1: Mala and I are actually going to be, you know,
41:43
Speaker 1: performing Brown Girl Our Defense in Vivo Yai. So we're
41:49
Speaker 1: really excited to bring that workshop into life. We're gonna
41:52
Speaker 1: change it. We're gonna switch it up. It will not
41:54
Speaker 1: be identical to the podcast, um, but we are going
41:57
Speaker 1: to take the format of it. So we're really excited
41:59
Speaker 1: to to be there and to this you know, speaking
42:03
Speaker 1: gig at a conference at a university. So shout out
42:06
Speaker 1: to Carol for reaching out to us. We're really excited.
42:09
Speaker 1: We are taking this radio phonic novella on the road. Yes,
42:13
Speaker 1: we're not going very fun, We're gonna be on the road.
42:15
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited about it. So it's also a
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Speaker 1: free conference. UM, I know spaces limited because you know,
42:23
Speaker 1: funding is small for the Multicultural Center. I do know that.
42:26
Speaker 1: So UM we will post somewhere the link if you
42:31
Speaker 1: are in the area or you can make it to
42:33
Speaker 1: the area. UM, it'll be a really dope conference. They
42:35
Speaker 1: do really good work at the Multicultural Center. They Um.
42:38
Speaker 1: I know the director and she is a fabulous, fabulous
42:42
Speaker 1: woman from Sri Lanka. Yes, I'm really excited to For
42:47
Speaker 1: those of you that do not know, I graduated from
42:48
Speaker 1: you Sa Santa Barbara. So I'm really excited to be
42:51
Speaker 1: going back only to go to the multi Culture Center.
42:54
Speaker 1: It was a good place. It wasn't um. And finally,
42:59
Speaker 1: finally we um have another social media page. Oh yeah,
43:03
Speaker 1: we have a Facebook page now, yes, yes, I made it.
43:06
Speaker 1: Thank you have no problem. Apparently we should be there.
43:10
Speaker 1: So we were told like a shamga Facebook page, so
43:13
Speaker 1: we did. Um. So we are look at that our
43:15
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43:19
Speaker 1: navigate having these multiple accounts. So there with us, you know, um,
43:24
Speaker 1: and we're on it and on iTunes now. Yes. Another
43:27
Speaker 1: that was another like typical technical difficulty, like a potongs one.
43:31
Speaker 1: It took us a while, but us alongside it was
43:33
Speaker 1: a learning Chris um where we're new at this. You know,
43:37
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43:39
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43:45
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43:56
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44:00
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44:04
Speaker 1: They were commenting on our Instagram and saying, you know,
44:06
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44:08
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44:11
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44:14
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44:16
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44:19
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44:21
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44:23
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44:26
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44:29
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44:33
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44:38
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44:41
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44:45
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