[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.79,0:00:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.46,0:00:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey. Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.75,0:00:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.21,0:00:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you just heard, Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.71,0:00:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my name is D-L Stewart, Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.46,0:00:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm a faculty member here on campus\Nat Colorado State University. Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.58,0:00:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what's most important\Nfor you to understand about me right now Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.04,0:00:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I identify as both Black Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.83,0:00:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as transgender, or trans. Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.21,0:00:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, I'm going to talk to you today\Nabout how Black trans lives matter. Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.88,0:00:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I do so, Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.25,0:00:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to share\Na few scenes from my own life, Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.46,0:00:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mixed in with the ways Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.42,0:00:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that race and gender have historically\Nand currently intersected Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.04,0:00:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shape the lives of Black trans people. Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.88,0:00:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ready? Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.17,0:00:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: Ready. Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.62,0:00:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DLS: Scene one. Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.88,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am at home with myself. Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.92,0:00:57.81,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: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is superlative in quality. Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.96,0:01:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the most exalted kind. Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.58,0:01:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having generalized curative powers\Nof an unqualified nature, Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.46,0:01:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unmitigated, Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.92,0:01:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paramount, Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.33,0:01:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possessed of supreme power, Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.88,0:01:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlimited in extent, absolute. Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.04,0:01:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoying autonomy, Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.38,0:01:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independent, Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.04,0:01:25.29,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: 0,0:01:28.33,0:01:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a society consumed\Nby boxes and binaries Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.83,0:01:34.89,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: 0,0:01:37.04,0:01:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my body clings instead\Nto the long ago lore Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.83,0:01:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that understood its magic. Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.12,0:01:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I contain multitudes. Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.79,0:01:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this supreme power to name myself, Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.46,0:01:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,define myself and be myself, Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.46,0:01:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stake a claim to myself Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.83,0:01:56.10,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: 0,0:02:03.08,0:02:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body is a sovereign country Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.67,0:02:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my first site of resistance. Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.25,0:02:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene. Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.38,0:02:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To say that Black trans lives matter\Nis a claim to sovereignty. Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.54,0:02:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As much as Black Girl Magic,\Nand #transisbrilliant, Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.71,0:02:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black Trans Lives Matter\Nis also a chorus of resistance. Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.08,0:02:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Black trans lives begin\Nby defining our bodies Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.92,0:02:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as sovereign countries Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.92,0:02:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which we first begin\Nto resist the messages Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.08,0:02:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have no place here. Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.33,0:02:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We push whole movements forward\Non the strength of our vision. Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.42,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We set trends and create new worlds. Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.29,0:02:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the vanguard. Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.25,0:02:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans lives have always mattered. Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.50,0:02:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.79,0:03:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught at the time-traveling intersection Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.54,0:03:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Juneteenth emancipation celebration Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.83,0:03:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Stonewall's emancipation declaration, Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.08,0:03:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans lives\Nare both seen but yet unseen. Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.17,0:03:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unseen by the antiblackness\Nof queer and trans movements. Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.08,0:03:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unseen by the transphobia\Nand trans-antagonism of Black movements. Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.75,0:03:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sovereignty and resistance are blocked Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.42,0:03:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by layers of systems and structures Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.21,0:03:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have always sought Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.75,0:03:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to contain, define and erase\NBlack trans bodies. Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.46,0:03:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene two. Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am with my therapist. Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.92,0:03:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one whose testimony I must rely on Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.12,0:03:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to declare me man enough\Nto have my documents changed. Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.29,0:03:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one who is to be believed. Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.62,0:04:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite my own declarations\Nthat I am not this body, Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.29,0:04:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this body is neither hers\Nnor yours to define, Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.25,0:04:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sit with this doctor. Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.29,0:04:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she fills out a form for me. Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.08,0:04:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when concerning what all I've done Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.96,0:04:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to affirm my gender, Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.67,0:04:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Has the patient's gender presentation Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.46,0:04:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aligned with their gender identity?" Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.88,0:04:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She decides that my gender presentation Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.58,0:04:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more neutral, really. Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.92,0:04:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I sit there, mind you, Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.96,0:04:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,head to toe in clothing\Nfrom the section of the store Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.25,0:04:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the dress buttons\Ngo down the right side, Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.83,0:04:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my pants give away\Nthe number of inches around my waist, Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.42,0:04:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my hair is cut\Nlike Denzel's "Man on Fire," Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.58,0:04:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm still more neutral. Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.12,0:04:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really? Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.33,0:04:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because she still sees, Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.62,0:04:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you see, Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.12,0:04:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Black woman. Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.08,0:05:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Black women's bodies\Nare always already made genderless. Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.67,0:05:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene. Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.54,0:05:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From mammy and Sapphire, Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.33,0:05:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Mandingo and Sambo, Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.92,0:05:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black bodies and our genders\Nhave been caught in the White imagination. Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.58,0:05:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the imagination\Nof whiteness is fanciful, Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.54,0:05:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and powerful enough\Nto turn its fancies into realities. Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.54,0:05:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagined as a thing, Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.67,0:05:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were made to become that thing, Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.29,0:05:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we have been bred like horses, Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.88,0:05:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fed like turtles to alligators, Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.58,0:05:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,branded like cattle, Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.21,0:05:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,milked like sows, Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.75,0:05:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made into oxen to plow. Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.54,0:05:47.68,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: 0,0:05:50.17,0:05:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our arms and legs and backs, Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.75,0:05:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our breasts and genitalia Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.29,0:05:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be turned into profit. Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.92,0:06:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Black body was made not White Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.88,0:06:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore not worthy of gender. Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.17,0:06:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And under the weight of the gentile tulle Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.62,0:06:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and virginal lace that dressed\Nplantation mistresses, Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.46,0:06:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black femininity has always been denied. Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.25,0:06:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, she is either beast or porn star. Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.75,0:06:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neither a proper gender, dehumanized. Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.62,0:06:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made a social threat\Nthat endangers civility. Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.29,0:06:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That puts civilization in danger. Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.46,0:06:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The angry Black woman cannot be escaped. Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.12,0:06:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not even by a first lady\Nof these United States. Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.33,0:06:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, ill-suited for chivalry Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.42,0:06:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and outmatched as masters\Nand captains of fate, Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.04,0:06:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black manhood lays flaccid Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.12,0:06:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the hands of White man's dominance. Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.92,0:06:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken, Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.46,0:06:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speed measured, Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.42,0:07:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,draft pick forecasted. Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.21,0:07:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the NFL combine. Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.79,0:07:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken, Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.04,0:07:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teeth and body cavities inspected, Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.96,0:07:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number assigned. Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.25,0:07:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the prison intake room. Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.12,0:07:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body measurements taken, Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.33,0:07:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talents and abilities advertised, Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.71,0:07:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teeth and body cavities inspected, Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.54,0:07:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,name and value assigned. Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.46,0:07:35.46,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 farce,\Nhe is not for his own pleasure, Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.58,0:07:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather for profit and jest. Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.46,0:07:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Athletes and comics Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.67,0:07:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contained. Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.75,0:07:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made not a threat. Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.08,0:07:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My gender is Black," said Hari Ziyad, Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.83,0:08:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Black bodies\Nand our genders have been caught Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.62,0:08:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the White imagination, Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.04,0:08:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have always been transgressive. Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.04,0:08:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transgressive meaning Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.33,0:08:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a violation of accepted and imposed\Nboundaries of social acceptability. Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.04,0:08:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blackness is transgressive. Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.92,0:08:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once set free Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.67,0:08:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from social acceptability, Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.88,0:08:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blackness challenges the limitations\Nof what gender can be. Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.92,0:08:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have always been fugitives here. Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.71,0:08:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Escaping from gender surveillance Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.46,0:08:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to claim our sovereignty Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.42,0:08:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and right to exist and to live free, Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.21,0:08:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to proclaim as beautiful Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.25,0:08:43.93,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: 0,0:08:45.71,0:08:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black lives and trans lives\Nand Black trans lives. Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.21,0:08:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, in this world, that fact Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.21,0:08:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Black trans lives make a difference, Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.04,0:08:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make differences Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.58,0:09:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a matter of mattering\Nis doused by the fire hoses Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.67,0:09:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of past and current denials Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.21,0:09:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our rights to exist and resist. Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.67,0:09:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must fight to be seen Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.12,0:09:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we see through fences Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.08,0:09:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the play yards\Nthat we are kept out of. Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.54,0:09:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene three. Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.75,0:09:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am at school. Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.96,0:09:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bell rings, it's recess. Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.33,0:09:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We line up to go outside. Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.08,0:09:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those made boys on one side, Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.79,0:09:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those made girls on the other. Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We file out of the doors. Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.33,0:09:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boys stopping\Nto fill in the closed off street. Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.83,0:09:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls and I, Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.42,0:09:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking across the street. Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.29,0:09:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Keep your eyes\Nstraight ahead," we are told. Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there's a park across the street. Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.92,0:09:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is a wrought iron fence\Nthat encloses that park. Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.75,0:09:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where the girls and I play. Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.46,0:10:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mostly, I stand at the fence and watch, Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.29,0:10:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as my fellows play ball in the street Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.62,0:10:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be loud Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.25,0:10:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be rough Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.88,0:10:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be sweaty, Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.67,0:10:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am behind the fence. Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.33,0:10:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accused of thinking naughty thoughts. Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.71,0:10:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have no idea. Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.62,0:10:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene. Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.62,0:10:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sissified and bulldaggered,\Nwe are all made up. Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.21,0:10:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just boys in dresses and girls in suits, Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.54,0:10:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Black transgressive body Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.50,0:10:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught in fantasies of boxes and binaries Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.21,0:10:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make our genitalia\Nrepresentative of our gender, Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.83,0:10:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our mannerisms our sexuality. Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.62,0:10:51.64,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: 0,0:10:53.54,0:10:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the overlay of femininity\Non bodies marked as male, Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.96,0:10:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore as man, Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.29,0:11:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adheres like a "kick me" sign, Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.17,0:11:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the consequences\Nare much more deadly. Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.83,0:11:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The majority of trans people murdered\Nin this country are Black trans women. Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.42,0:11:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when manhood\Nis located between one's legs, Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.46,0:11:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and defined in opposition to womanhood, Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.62,0:11:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's between one's legs Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.67,0:11:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot be seen as having anything\Nin common with womanhood. Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.67,0:11:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this same acidic wash\Nserves to blanch trans masculinity, Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.33,0:11:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making it fade into nothingness. Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.75,0:11:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black trans men\Nbecome illusions of manhood, Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.08,0:11:39.71,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: 0,0:11:47.38,0:11:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are indelibly marked as "woman." Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at best, the looming threat\Nof Black trans manhood Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.21,0:11:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is contained, inoculated, Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.12,0:12:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made more neutral, really. Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.67,0:12:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scene four. Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.46,0:12:06.29,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: 0,0:12:17.12,0:12:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen as I move Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.00,0:12:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the social threat\Nof angry Black womanhood Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.50,0:12:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the physical threat\Nof looming Black manhood? Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.79,0:12:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When will my neighbors\Nforget to recognize me and my pit bull? Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.67,0:12:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've seen us nearly every day, Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.83,0:12:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predawn 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: 0,0:12:41.75,0:12:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When and how soon Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.25,0:12:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I am no longer misgendered woman Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.88,0:12:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will the cops be called\Nto come and contain Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.83,0:12:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and erase my presence? Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.75,0:12:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How soon before the purse clutching, Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.75,0:12:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sidewalk crossing? Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.04,0:13:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to become a brute? Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.79,0:13:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To turn my body\Ninto another kind of threat? Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.88,0:13:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's stunned that I'm already\Nrecognizing this. Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.46,0:13:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't afford not to. Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.08,0:13:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End scene. Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.29,0:13:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who can see me and my Black trans kin\Nin the skin we are in? Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.08,0:13:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who dares to love us, Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.58,0:13:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who holds us close? Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.33,0:13:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To whom do we matter \Nother than to ourselves? Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.79,0:13:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not looking for saviors. Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.54,0:13:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have each other. Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.79,0:13:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Lilla Watson said, Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.92,0:13:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you have come here to help me,\Nyou 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: 0,0:13:43.67,0:13:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your liberation is bound up in mine, Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.79,0:13:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then let us work together." Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.17,0:13:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us work together\Nto make Black 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: 0,0:13:54.83,0:13:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out into the world. Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.46,0:14:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you believe that your liberation\Nis bound up with mine, Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.50,0:14:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I invite you Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.00,0:14:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make Black Trans Lives Matter\Nyour personal ethic Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.25,0:14:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by being transformative, Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.12,0:14:09.85,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: 0,0:14:11.79,0:14:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transform your thinking\Nabout blackness and gender. Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.08,0:14:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be loud by taking the risk Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.92,0:14:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to confront false assumptions\Nand other's fears and biases. Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.83,0:14:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be mindful and pay attention and believe Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.96,0:14:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Black trans people say\Nabout our own lives. Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.38,0:14:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being transformative loudly and mindfully Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.50,0:14:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes practice. Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.88,0:14:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like getting\Nsomeone's pronouns right. Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.58,0:14:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mine are they, them, their,\Nand he, him, his, by the way. Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.54,0:14:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And getting someone's pronouns right Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.33,0:14:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being transformative loudly\Nand mindfully matters. Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.04,0:14:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Black trans lives matter. Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.12,0:14:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life matters. Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.50,0:14:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body is a sovereign country, Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.00,0:14:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my first site of resistance. Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.58,0:15:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)