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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.78,0:00:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.47,0:00:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.64,0:00:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.21,0:00:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you just heard,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.70,0:00:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my name is D-L Stewart
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.46,0:00:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm a faculty member here on campus\Nat Colorado State University.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.59,0:00:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what's most important\Nfor you to understand about me right now
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.06,0:00:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I identify as both Black
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.83,0:00:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as transgender, or trans.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.19,0:00:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, I'm going to talk to you today\Nabout how Black trans lives matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.88,0:00:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I do so,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.24,0:00:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to share\Na few scenes from my own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.45,0:00:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mixed in with the ways
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.43,0:00:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that race and gender have historically\Nand currently intersected
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.04,0:00:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shape the lives of Black trans people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.88,0:00:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ready?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.06,0:00:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: Ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.64,0:00:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.90,0:00:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am at home with myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.91,0:00:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body, a sovereign country.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.83,0:00:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sovereign meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.01,0:01:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is superlative in quality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.97,0:01:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the most exalted kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.60,0:01:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having generalized curative powers\Nof an unqualified nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.47,0:01:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unmitigated,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.94,0:01:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paramount,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.34,0:01:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possessed of supreme power,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.87,0:01:20.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlimited in extent, absolute.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.04,0:01:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoying autonomy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.36,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independent,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.03,0:01:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,royal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.12,0:01:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body defies the restrictions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.33,0:01:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a society consumed\Nby boxes and binaries
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.85,0:01:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "are you a boy or a girl?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.92,0:01:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Independent of such conventions,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.05,0:01:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body clings instead\Nto the long ago lore
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.84,0:01:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that understood its magic.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.14,0:01:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I contain multitudes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.78,0:01:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this supreme power to name myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.46,0:01:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,define myself and be myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.46,0:01:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stake a claim to myself
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.82,0:01:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and organize my resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.12,0:02:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A resistance that boldly proclaims\Nthat Black trans lives matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.08,0:02:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body is a sovereign country
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.69,0:02:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my first site of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.27,0:02:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.36,0:02:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To say that Black trans lives matter\Nis a claim to sovereignty.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.55,0:02:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As much as Black Girl Magic,\Nand trans is brilliant,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.69,0:02:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black Trans Lives Matter\Nis also a chorus of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.09,0:02:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Black trans lives begin\Nby defining our bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.94,0:02:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as sovereign countries
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.91,0:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which we first begin\Nto resist the messages
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.10,0:02:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have no place here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.32,0:02:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We push whole movements forward\Non the strength of our vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.40,0:02:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We set trends and create new worlds.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.28,0:02:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the vanguard.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.25,0:02:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans lives have always mattered.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.51,0:02:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.77,0:03:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught at the time-traveling intersection
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.52,0:03:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Juneteenth emancipation celebration
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.84,0:03:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Stonewall's emancipation declaration,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.06,0:03:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans lives\Nare both seen but yet unseen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.16,0:03:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unseen by the antiblackness\Nof queer and trans movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.07,0:03:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unseen by the transfobia\Nand trans-antagonism of Black movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.76,0:03:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sovereignty and resistance are blocked
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.43,0:03:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by layers of systems and structures
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.19,0:03:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have always sought
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.75,0:03:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to contain, define and erase\NBlack trans bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.46,0:03:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene two.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.98,0:03:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am with my therapist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.90,0:03:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one whose testimony I must rely on
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.12,0:03:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to declare me man enough\Nto have my documents changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.30,0:03:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one who is to be believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.61,0:04:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite my own declarations\Nthat I am not this body,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.28,0:04:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this body is neither hers\Nnor yours to define,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.25,0:04:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sit with this doctor.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.27,0:04:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she fills out a form for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.10,0:04:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when concerning what all I've done
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.96,0:04:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to affirm my gender,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.69,0:04:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Has the patient's gender presentation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.47,0:04:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aligned with their gender identity?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.87,0:04:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She decides that my gender presentation
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.59,0:04:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more neutral, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.91,0:04:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I sit there, mind you,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.96,0:04:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,head to toe in clothing\Nfrom the section of the store
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.24,0:04:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the dress buttons\Ngo down the right side,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.82,0:04:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my pants give away\Nthe number of inches around my waist,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.40,0:04:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my hair is cut\Nlike Denzel's "Man on Fire,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.60,0:04:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm still more neutral.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.12,0:04:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.32,0:04:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because she still sees,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.61,0:04:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.11,0:04:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Black woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.09,0:05:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Black women's bodies\Nare always already made genderless.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.65,0:05:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.56,0:05:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From mammy and Sapphire,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.34,0:05:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to "Mandingo" and Sambo,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.91,0:05:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black bodies and our genders\Nhave been caught in the White imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.57,0:05:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the imagination\Nof whiteness is fanciful,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.53,0:05:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and powerful enough to turn\Nits fancies into realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.55,0:05:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagined as a thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.66,0:05:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were made to become that thing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.30,0:05:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we have been bred like horses,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.87,0:05:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fed like turtles to alligators,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.59,0:05:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,branded like cattle,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.21,0:05:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,milked like [unclear],
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.75,0:05:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made into oxen to plow.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.53,0:05:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gender did not matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.71,0:05:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so long as our body parts,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.17,0:05:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our arms and legs and backs,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.74,0:05:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our breasts and genitalia
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.30,0:05:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be turned into profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.93,0:06:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Black body was made not White
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.86,0:06:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore not worthy of gender.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.18,0:06:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And under the weight of the gentile tool
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.61,0:06:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and virginal lace that dressed\Nplantation mistresses,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.47,0:06:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black femininity has always been denied.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.24,0:06:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, she is either beast or porn star.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.75,0:06:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neither a proper gender, dehumanized.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.63,0:06:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made a social threat\Nthat endangers civility.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.31,0:06:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That puts civilization in danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.47,0:06:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The angry Black woman cannot be escaped.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.14,0:06:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not even by a first lady\Nof these United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.32,0:06:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, ill-suited for chivalry,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.42,0:06:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and outmatched as masters\Nand captains of faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.04,0:06:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black manhood lays flaccid
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.14,0:06:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the hands of White man's dominance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.91,0:06:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.44,0:06:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speed measured,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.41,0:07:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,draft pick forecasted.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.20,0:07:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the NFL combine.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.81,0:07:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.05,0:07:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teeth and body cavities inspected,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.95,0:07:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number assigned.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.23,0:07:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the prison intake room.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.11,0:07:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.32,0:07:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talents and abilities advertised,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.71,0:07:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teeth and body cavities inspected,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.53,0:07:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,name and value assigned.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.48,0:07:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a slave's bill of sale.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.92,0:07:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made either stud or farcy\Nis not for his own pleasure,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.59,0:07:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather for profit and gest.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.44,0:07:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Athletes and comics
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.66,0:07:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contained.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.73,0:07:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made not a threat.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.07,0:07:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My gender is Black," said Hari Ziyad,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.84,0:08:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Black bodies\Nand our genders have been caught
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.62,0:08:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the White imagination,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.06,0:08:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have always been transgressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.02,0:08:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transgressive meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.32,0:08:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a violation of accepted and imposed\Nboundaries of social acceptability.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.04,0:08:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blackness is transgressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.90,0:08:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once set free
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.66,0:08:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from social acceptability,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.88,0:08:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blackness challenges the limitations\Nof what gender can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.93,0:08:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have always been fugitives here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.70,0:08:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Escaping from gender surveillance
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.46,0:08:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to claim our sovereignty
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.40,0:08:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right to exist and to live free,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.20,0:08:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to proclaim as beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.24,0:08:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which was made ugly,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.96,0:08:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to defy convention,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.70,0:08:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black lives and trans lives\Nand Black trans lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.19,0:08:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, in this world, that fact
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.20,0:08:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Black trans lives make a difference,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.04,0:08:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make differences,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.57,0:09:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a matter of mattering\Nis doused by the fire hoses
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.66,0:09:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of past and current denials
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.20,0:09:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our rights to exist and resist.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.68,0:09:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must fight to be seen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.12,0:09:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we see through fences
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.10,0:09:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the play yards\Nthat we are kept out of.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.55,0:09:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene three.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.77,0:09:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am at school.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.94,0:09:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bell rings, it's recess.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.35,0:09:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We line up to go outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.07,0:09:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those made boys on one side,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.80,0:09:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those made girls on the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.01,0:09:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We file out of the doors.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.32,0:09:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boys stopping to fill in\Nthe closed off street.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.84,0:09:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls and I,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.43,0:09:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking across the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.28,0:09:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Keep your eyes\Nstraight ahead," we are told.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.99,0:09:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there's a park across the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.90,0:09:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is a rot iron fence\Nthat encloses that park.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.72,0:09:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where the girls and I play.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.47,0:10:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mostly, I stand at the fence and watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.28,0:10:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as my fellows play ball in the street,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.64,0:10:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be loud,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.24,0:10:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be rough,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.88,0:10:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be sweaty,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.68,0:10:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am behind the fence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.36,0:10:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accused of thinking naughty thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.70,0:10:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have no idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.61,0:10:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.64,0:10:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sissified and bulldaggered,\Nwe are all made up.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.20,0:10:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just boys in dresses and girls in suits,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.53,0:10:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Black transgressive body
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.48,0:10:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught in fantasies of boxes and binaries
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.19,0:10:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make our genitalia\Nrepresentative of our gender,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.85,0:10:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our mannerisms our sexuality.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.61,0:10:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans lives are therefore\Nwritten off as merely gay effeminate
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.67,0:10:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or lesbian butch.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.55,0:10:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the overlay of femininity\Non bodies marked as male,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.95,0:10:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore as man,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.28,0:11:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adheres like a "kick me" sign,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.17,0:11:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the consequences\Nare much more deadly.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.84,0:11:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The majority of trans people murdered\Nin this country are Black trans women.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.41,0:11:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when manhood\Nis located between one's legs,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.46,0:11:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and defined in opposition to womanhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.61,0:11:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's between one's legs
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.68,0:11:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot be seen as having anything\Nin common with womanhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.65,0:11:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this same acidic wash\Nserves to blanch trans masculinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.35,0:11:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making it fade into nothingness.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.73,0:11:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans men become\Nillusions of manhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.08,0:11:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women merely playing at being men\Nbecause you can't get a real man.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.25,0:11:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forever put in our place,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.38,0:11:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are indelibly marked as "woman."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.99,0:11:55.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at best, the looming threat\Nof black trans manhood
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.20,0:11:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is contained, inoculated,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.14,0:12:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made more neutral, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.65,0:12:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene four.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.46,0:12:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am with my therapist.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.12,0:12:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tell her what I think about,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.92,0:12:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as my body begins to slowly morph\Ninto another version of itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.13,0:12:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen as I move
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.01,0:12:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the social threat\Nof angry Black womanhood
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.48,0:12:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the physical threat\Nof looming Black manhood?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.78,0:12:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When will my neighbors\Nforget to recognize me and my pit bull?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.65,0:12:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've seen us nearly every day,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.84,0:12:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pre-dawn or after twilight,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.71,0:12:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what will have been\Nover two years by then?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.77,0:12:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When and how soon
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.24,0:12:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I am no longer misgendered woman
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.89,0:12:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will the cops be called\Nto come and contain
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.85,0:12:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and erase my presence?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.76,0:12:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How soon before the purse clutching,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.77,0:12:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sidewalk crossing?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.03,0:13:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to become a brute?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.81,0:13:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To turn my body\Ninto another kind of threat?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.88,0:13:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's stunned that I'm already\Nrecognizing this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.47,0:13:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't afford not to.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.09,0:13:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.29,0:13:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who can see me and my Black trans kin\Nin the skin we are in?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.10,0:13:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who dares to love us,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.60,0:13:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who holds us close?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.32,0:13:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To whom do we matter other to ourselves?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.79,0:13:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not looking for saviors.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.55,0:13:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.79,0:13:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Lilla Watson said,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.93,0:13:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you have come here\Nto help me, you are wasting your time.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.58,0:13:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you have come because you recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.67,0:13:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your liberation is bound up in mine,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.78,0:13:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then let us work together."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.16,0:13:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us work together to make\NBlack trans lives matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.71,0:13:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lived experience of Black trans people
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.83,0:13:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out into the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.47,0:14:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you believe that your liberation\Nis bound up with mine,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.50,0:14:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I invite you
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.99,0:14:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make Black Trans Lives Matter\Nyour personal ethic
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.26,0:14:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by being transformative,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.12,0:14:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loudly and mindfully.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.88,0:14:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do that in three ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.80,0:14:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transform your thinking\Nabout blackness and gender.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.06,0:14:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be loud by taking the risk
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.93,0:14:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to confront false assumptions\Nand other's fears and biases.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.83,0:14:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be mindful and pay attention and believe
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.94,0:14:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Black trans people say\Nabout our own lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.36,0:14:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being transformative loudly and mindfully
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.50,0:14:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.88,0:14:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like getting\Nsomeone's pronouns right.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.60,0:14:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mine are they, them, their,\Nand he, him, his, by the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.52,0:14:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And getting someone's pronouns right
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.34,0:14:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being transformative loudly\Nand mindfully matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.06,0:14:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Black trans lives matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.12,0:14:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.49,0:14:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body is a sovereign country,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.100,0:14:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my first site of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.73,0:15:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)