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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.50,0:00:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First up, my spirit name is Mnido Giizis Ogichidaa: A Moon Spirit Guardian.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.84,0:00:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of my fasts, I was given a message
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.88,0:00:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there's too many of our women's hearts on the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.52,0:00:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the death of a nation is when our women's hearts are on the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.32,0:00:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that shortly after that fast, I ended up speaking in the parliament of Canada,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.43,0:00:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,debating the laws on sex work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.37,0:00:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was in a room filled with politicians and lawyers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.84,0:00:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everybody with fancy pieces of paper,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.15,0:00:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was there with my eagle feather.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.41,0:00:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.98,0:00:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how 500 women to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.55,0:00:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is equivalent to 25,000 women in any other community.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.25,0:00:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If another community lost 25,000 women,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.60,0:00:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure people would be up in arms.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.69,0:01:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would be organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.95,0:01:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would not sit down and live in silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.50,0:01:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, at Maggie's, our project is the first of its kind in our country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.04,0:01:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is years after the Stolen Sisters report.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.81,0:01:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to acknowledge that 60% of the women found on the pig farm
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.72,0:01:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were First Nations women.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.88,0:01:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That their families had to lobby the police to investigate their crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.38,0:01:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex workers are mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.95,0:01:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're fathers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.79,0:01:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're brothers and sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.19,0:01:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're Two Spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.78,0:01:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.59,0:01:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than being a sex worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.56,0:01:37.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex work is their job.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.73,0:01:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not OK to kill a sex worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.33,0:01:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not OK to kill an Aboriginal woman
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.54,0:01:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Two spirited person.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.34,0:01:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, this is a drum we made at Maggie's,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.21,0:01:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the first time we did drum-making at Maggie's.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.41,0:01:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we're trying to do with the project
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.98,0:01:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we're trying to open the circle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.80,0:01:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can include people in our community
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.38,0:02:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that don't feel part of our community;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.72,0:02:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can take them out of isolation and include them in our circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.36,0:02:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're doing that by including them in the sex work community,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.33,0:02:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also reaching out to community organizations
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.96,0:02:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can participate in community organizing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.80,0:02:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be OK with saying "Hi, I'm a sex worker".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.51,0:02:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, shame lives in silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.28,0:02:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's been my experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.04,0:02:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you wanna get rid of shame,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.73,0:02:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to start talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.35,0:02:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.55,0:02:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's, this is the remnants possibly of colonialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.82,0:02:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we don't talk about sex,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.19,0:02:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone sex for money.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.20,0:02:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm gonna end my speak by acknowledging the spirits that have gone on,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.23,0:02:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our mothers, the mothers, the daughters, the aunties.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.88,0:02:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it wasn't because they were a sex worker
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.07,0:02:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they deserved to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.04,0:02:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not deserve to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.27,0:02:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They needed to be honoured,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.71,0:02:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they needed to be cherished,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.84,0:02:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they needed to be included in the circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.38,0:02:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm going to sing a song,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.56,0:03:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Seven Grandfather Teaching Song
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.62,0:03:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the drum that was made in our sex worker organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.65,0:03:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the people who couldn't come here today
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.69,0:03:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak to you about their stories and say "hi, I'm a sex worker".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.83,0:03:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm hoping that it can, we can meet people where they are
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.56,0:03:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of waiting til they're healed enough to be in a sweatlodge, or community circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.57,0:03:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then maybe we won't have so many vigils.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.81,0:03:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Song begins]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.10,0:04:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[others join singing]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.66,0:05:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[song ends with cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.66,0:05:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, thank you so much for that gift, Maurganne, that was beautiful.