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Greetings Troublemakers[br]...welcome to Trouble.
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My name is not important.
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In the wake of the recent scandals [br]that have rocked Hollywood,
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corporate media outlets, [br]academia, amateur sports
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and, of course, Washington DC
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... the topic of sexual abuse [br]has become a recurring feature
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on the American news cycle.
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But while it’s good to see [br]a handful of powerful men
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at least beginning [br]to be held accountable
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for their misogynistic behaviour
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... the sexual harassment [br]and assault of women
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is obviously nothing new.
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And these recent stories are only [br]a microscopic representation
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of a much more widespread [br]and systemic issue.
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If even famous celebrities aren’t [br]safe from this type of abuse
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... what does that say [br]about the rest of us?
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Sexual violence is [br]the foundation of patriarchy,
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one of the oldest and most [br]insidious systems of domination
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in human history.
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This violence takes many forms
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from rape [br]and sexual exploitation,
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to the imposition of [br]misogynistic beauty standards
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and gender norms,
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to laws and social taboos [br]that seek to control
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women's sexuality, [br]bodily autonomy
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and reproductive health.
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Patriarchy is intricately woven[br]into the very fabric of society;
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it is rooted in [br]the nuclear family
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and the ways in which [br]children are raised differently
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depending on the gender [br]they're assigned at birth.
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It is encoded into our language,
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and amplified by religion [br]and popular culture,
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helping to shape our [br]perceptions of the world,
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and our place in it.
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It plays out in countless [br]everyday experiences and actions,
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forming a self-perpetuating [br]and self-reinforcing cycle
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that is passed down [br]through generations,
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extending its influence [br]into all spheres of
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human activity and behaviour.
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But far from accepting [br]the role of eternal victim,
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throughout history, women [br]have consistently pushed back
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against patriarchal systems [br]of social, political
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and economic control.
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Today, we are at the [br]forefront of revolutionary
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anti-capitalist and anti-colonial[br]movements around the world,
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in addition to playing [br]leading roles in resistance
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against white supremacy [br]and police terror,
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for LGBTQ liberation,
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and against ableism,
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carceral psychology and [br]the prison-industrial complex.
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Over the next thirty minutes
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we'll highlight some of [br]the ongoing struggles
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faced by women across the globe
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and speak with a number [br]of badass commentators
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as they talk about [br]confronting social taboos,
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fighting back against sexism,
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subverting systems [br]of male domination
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... and making [br]a whole lot of trouble.
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In a word, I would define [br]patriarchy as conquest.
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Beyond just sort of [br]everyday prejudices,
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it is a system of power [br]that is institutionalized
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in various facets of [br]our everday life.
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A social, economic, [br]political system
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that's rooted in [br]gender oppression.
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The system of [br]racialized gender regulation
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that socially and materially [br]privileges manhood,
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and men... and masculinity.
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Trans, queer [br]and non-binary folks,
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and all the things, [br]behaviours and attributes
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that we would associate [br]with the feminine,
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or femininity [br]is deemed to be inferior.
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It's a social system [br]that establishes,
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codifies the supremacy,
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the superiority of men in [br]every sphere of social life
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over women.
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The struggles of [br]women across the world
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show that there's [br]a lot of common issues,
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such as their under-representation[br]or marginalization
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in cultural, economic [br]and political spheres.
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One of the unifying [br]characteristics of patriarchy
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that is seen around the world [br]is the imposition of
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a gender binary, with [br]violence committed against
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those who do not fit [br]into the stereotypes
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– into the expected [br]representations[br]
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of what is masculine[br]or what is feminine.
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The patriarchal system, as a[br]system of gender regulation,
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revolves around transmisogyny
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– which patriarchy [br]understands as a punishment
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of failed masculinity.
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Because trans women are not[br]understood as being real women
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but rather as failed men.
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And the violence against trans[br]women serves a twofold purpose.
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It allows cis men [br]to reassert and re-establish
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their own sense of masculinity[br]by punishing trans women
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for their own insecurity [br]about their heterosexuality,
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and their attraction to [br]trans women, which calls
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their whole [br]manhood into question.
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And then it also serves [br]a warning to trans women.
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The kind of uniform [br]experience of patriarchy,
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if there was to be one[br]... because of course
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patriarchy is experienced [br]differently by different genders
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and many other identities [br]that overlap with patriarchy
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– but is particularly, the subjugation
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especially if we look at [br]subjugation and inequality
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in intimate relationships,
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and in the so-called [br]'domestic spheres.'
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So that's one of the ways [br]in which patriarchy
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continues to be so dominant, [br]and yet so invisible.
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Patriarchal relations, the [br]dominance of men over women,
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it's a consequence usually
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of a system that [br]exploits human labour.
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And therefore [br]the control over women,
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over their reproductive capacity,[br]over their domestic work
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– it's in fact a goal, at least[br]of those who control society.
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Patriarchy is, [br]at least in my view,
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connected with a class system.
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With a system of exploitation [br]that goes beyond the relations
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between men and women.
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Economically, the subordination[br]of women and femmes
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plays out in pay gaps[br]and in the way that
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women's labour is undervalued,[br]regardless of what it is.
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And whether it's [br]in more traditional ways
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... if it's curanderas, [br]or medicine people,
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it's typically more women.
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When we talk about[br]the ancestral knowledge
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that's passed down [br]from grandmothers
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through matrilineal connections[br]- that kind of knowledge
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is dismissed more often.
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There is an appropriation[br]of the genius of women.
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Of the work of women[br]that men take credit for.
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All those clichés about there[br]always being, y'know,
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'behind every great man [br]there's a woman.'
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Like, behind every great woman[br]there's ten more women
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that are badass and that have[br]worked to uplift each other
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and to encourage each other [br]to find their power
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and to find their voices.
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Patriarchy ignores all that.
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Patriarchy erases the genius [br]of women throughout history.
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It erases the efforts[br]that we put in
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to help our [br]communities be thriving.
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To help our [br]children be thriving.
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I've spoken of 'the patriarchy[br]of the wage' to define,
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y'know, the way [br]in which capitalism maintains
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gender-based hierarchies.
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The patriarchy of the wage [br]says that,
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or implies, [br]the wage relation.
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And the fact that capitalism [br]organizes much of
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women's work on [br]an unpaid basis as being
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a fundamental material [br]condition for the creation
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of patriarchal control.
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We saw very recently [br]with the #MeToo movement,
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how the issue of harassment [br]or abuse against women
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is something that really [br]transcends
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all class lines [br]and all culture lines.
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It's also important to state[br]that patriarchy
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does not imply that all men[br]have power over all women.
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Take the case of the[br]United States, for instance.
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It's clear that the race relation[br]has a profound effect
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in the definition also
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of whose men have power[br]over whose women.
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I think about patriarchy, [br]not only in the way
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that it affects women, [br]but in the way
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that it affects men [br]in our communities.
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It stunts their growth.
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It stunts their [br]capacity for accountability,
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their emotional depth.
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Their willingness to grow [br]and to understand
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that they can become [br]better human beings,
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more connected[br]to their spirituality.
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More connected to [br]their purpose in this life.
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Especially in [br]– when folks talk about,
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y'know, a revolutionary sense,[br]there's this stereotype
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of having to be hard [br]and super militant.
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And we absolutely need that.
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We absolutely need[br]to defend our communities.
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But we also need to be able to[br]communicate with each other.
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And to be reasonable,[br]and to not default to anger.
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In the Book of Genesis,
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which just so happens to be [br]the main creation story
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for the world's combined [br]4.2 billion adherents
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of Judaism,[br]Christianity and Islam
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... it's a bit of[br]an understatement to say that
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women don't exactly [br]come out looking so great.
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And if the no-doubt[br]male authors of this text
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are to be believed[br]... it's all Eve's fault.
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Because even after being [br]granted an earthly paradise
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to frolic around in,
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this ungrateful harlot [br]did the one thing
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that her benevolent male[br]God had told her not to do.
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And worse than that,[br]she roped her husband
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into taking the blame with her[br]... even after he gave up
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one of his ribs [br]so that she could be created.
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By eating the forbidden apple[br]from the Tree of Knowledge,
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Eve was responsible[br]for original sin
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... and ultimately [br]the downfall of humanity.
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Pretty heavy.
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And for thousands of years,
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the chief institutions [br]of organized religion
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have done everything [br]that they could to ensure
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that nobody forgot[br]the awful truth
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wrapped up[br]in this vicious lie.
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The Catholic Church [br]has played a major major role
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in terms of fostering a [br]misogynist conception of women.
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The Church had [br]a tremendous role,
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in particular, [br]in defining women's sexuality
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as something sinful.
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As something that [br]has to be controlled.
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So the woman [br]is the great sinner.
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The woman is the one [br]who has to cover herself,
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because she is a continuous[br]temptation for men.
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Sexuality is a very intense,[br]potentially subversive force.
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Y'know, but here [br]I would add immediately
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that the concerns of [br]the Church were also shared
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by the political [br]and legal authorities.
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Because particularly in the [br]developing capitalist system
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at the end of the Middle Ages,
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y'know, the question of [br]the control of sexuality,
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the control of procreation, [br]became a strategic issue.
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Became a strategic objective.
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Those same techniques,
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values that were permeated [br]by a devaluation of women
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... were exported.
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Throughout colonization, [br]Christianity used the bible
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and its stories [br]to prove that patriarchy
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was the will of God.
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The Christian, [br]Catholic religions
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that have been imposed here [br]deify men.
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And deify God as a man.
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And they don't have any room [br]for the sacred feminine.
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Colonization needed to [br]divide and destroy communities
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in order to gain [br]access to land.
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And upon arrival, [br]settlers noticed very quickly
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that Indigenous women [br]often held positions
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of power in their communities,
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and in their own [br]governance systems.
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And so while there were [br]generalized attacks
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on Indigenous communities,
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there were [br]very specific attacks
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aimed directly at [br]Indigenous women.
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Looking back at history,
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looking back [br]at resource extraction
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... the ways that all of our [br]non-human relatives have
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been treated and commodified[br]and stolen and sold
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... it seems to me that [br]people from those religions
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don't hold much sacred.
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One of the first things they did [br]was convince the men
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in those communities [br]that their equality to women
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was a sign of inferiority.
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And this was done [br]through religion
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and a variety [br]of different ways,
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and actually got them [br]to aid in the process
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of removing women from[br]those positions of power.
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The way that [br]colonizers invaded,
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and continue to invade [br]and destroy
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and disrespect [br]the land that gives us life
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... is an extreme parallel [br]to the ways that colonizers
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also inflict abuse[br]on Native women in particular.
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The MMIW movement in Canada
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has been an Indigenous-led [br]response to the crisis of
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over-representation of Inuit,[br]Métis and First Nations women
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in missing persons [br]and homicide cases.
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Indigenous women make up [br]4% of the population,
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but 16% of the [br]homicide rates in Canada.
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Deaths and disappearances [br]of Indigenous women
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are often ignored [br]or mishandled by the police.
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The Tina Fontaine verdict
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... the recent not-guilty [br]verdict in that case,
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which was pretty devastating
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– you see this kind [br]of thing play out.
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And so you see things like,
0:13:10.953,0:13:13.698
just before the verdict being [br]announced, The Globe and Mail
0:13:13.698,0:13:17.048
doing an entire front-page [br]article talking about how
0:13:17.048,0:13:19.551
she had drugs [br]and alcohol in her system
0:13:19.551,0:13:20.480
when she was found.
0:13:20.480,0:13:24.275
As if that somehow justifies [br]her being murdered
0:13:24.275,0:13:26.578
and thrown into the river [br]in a sleeping bag.
0:13:27.589,0:13:31.825
The European [br]systems of religion,
0:13:31.825,0:13:36.349
of social structures [br]are all based on hierarchy.
0:13:36.349,0:13:39.051
The hierarchies that [br]are in place now place women
0:13:39.051,0:13:42.562
– women of colour – [br]at the very bottom.
0:13:42.562,0:13:45.723
The Jezebel is one of [br]the controlling images
0:13:45.723,0:13:48.546
of Black womanhood [br]that's grounded in this idea
0:13:48.546,0:13:52.344
that Black women are [br]uniquely sexually aggressive
0:13:52.344,0:13:54.729
and uncontrollably [br]promiscuous,
0:13:54.729,0:13:57.551
and hyper-sexual [br]and animalistic.
0:13:57.551,0:13:59.800
And it relates to chattel [br]slavery in the United States
0:13:59.800,0:14:02.311
in that enslaved Black women [br]were subjected
0:14:02.311,0:14:04.606
to sexual violence [br]by their masters.
0:14:04.606,0:14:08.571
Because they were seen [br]solely as bodies that existed
0:14:08.571,0:14:11.891
for sexual consumption and[br]sexual domination by white men.
0:14:11.891,0:14:14.023
This has fed into [br]a contemporary idea
0:14:14.023,0:14:16.368
that Black women [br]are 'un-rapeable'.
0:14:16.368,0:14:20.120
That we are purely sexual [br]beings that always want sex.
0:14:20.120,0:14:22.089
And so when we are [br]victimized sexually,
0:14:22.089,0:14:24.468
we're not understood [br]as being legitimate victims
0:14:24.468,0:14:26.251
the way that white women are.
0:14:26.251,0:14:28.429
In Syria you have the rise
0:14:28.429,0:14:31.297
of a number of [br]authoritarian Islamist groups,
0:14:31.297,0:14:35.022
which to varying degrees have[br]placed restrictions on women
0:14:35.022,0:14:36.882
in terms of [br]their participation,
0:14:36.882,0:14:40.357
or restrictions on movement [br]or on dress.
0:14:40.357,0:14:45.209
But with Daesh, we saw [br]these extremes of horror
0:14:45.209,0:14:47.674
being committed against women.
0:14:47.674,0:14:50.576
The reintroduction [br]of sexual slavery,
0:14:50.576,0:14:53.999
also the policing of [br]women in the social space
0:14:53.999,0:14:57.605
– which was completely [br]alien to Syrian society.
0:14:57.605,0:15:00.312
But I think it's also [br]important to recognize
0:15:00.312,0:15:02.005
that women have been [br]at the forefront
0:15:02.005,0:15:03.661
of countering extremism.
0:15:03.661,0:15:05.842
Of course, [br]in the Kurdish areas
0:15:05.842,0:15:09.395
the female fighters of the YPJ[br]have really captured
0:15:09.395,0:15:12.464
the world's imagination [br]for the courage they've shown
0:15:12.464,0:15:14.517
in fighting against Daesh.
0:15:14.517,0:15:18.444
In Raqqa you had [br]an amazing woman, Suad Nofal,
0:15:18.444,0:15:21.677
who became an icon [br]for Syrian revolutionaries
0:15:21.677,0:15:23.695
because she carried out [br]these one-woman
0:15:23.695,0:15:26.885
demonstrations against Daesh [br]for two months.
0:15:26.885,0:15:31.006
Every day she was there [br]protesting against them
0:15:31.006,0:15:32.814
and calling on them to leave.
0:15:32.814,0:15:36.138
And in Idlib, you've seen [br]women at the forefront
0:15:36.138,0:15:38.117
of protests against Nusra.
0:15:38.117,0:15:39.971
I think it's important [br]to recognize
0:15:39.971,0:15:43.883
that many of these women [br]are religious, hijab-wearing,
0:15:43.883,0:15:45.061
Muslim women.
0:15:45.061,0:15:48.402
But what they're saying is [br]that they refuse to submit
0:15:48.402,0:15:51.143
to the regime's tyranny, [br]and they refuse any
0:15:51.143,0:15:53.697
other tyranny [br]that tries to replace it.
0:15:53.697,0:15:56.605
And they refuse anyone [br]who's trying to impose
0:15:56.605,0:15:58.933
an authoritarian [br]agenda on them,
0:15:58.933,0:16:01.286
or dictate to them [br]what they should wear
0:16:01.286,0:16:03.351
or what their [br]social role should be.
0:16:05.848,0:16:08.405
According to the UN [br]High Commission on Refugees,
0:16:08.405,0:16:12.907
in 2017 there was [br]a record 258 million migrants
0:16:12.907,0:16:14.762
living in countries [br]around the world.
0:16:14.762,0:16:17.597
This figure includes [br]almost 26 million people
0:16:17.597,0:16:20.025
who are officially [br]registered as refugees.
0:16:20.025,0:16:21.760
And over [br]the past several years,
0:16:21.760,0:16:23.894
for the first time [br]in recorded history,
0:16:23.894,0:16:26.210
a majority of those [br]forced to make these journeys
0:16:26.210,0:16:27.866
have been women and children.
0:16:28.276,0:16:29.722
The decision to [br]leave your home,
0:16:29.722,0:16:32.106
and the entire life that[br]you've made for yourself,
0:16:32.106,0:16:34.429
is one that [br]nobody takes lightly.
0:16:34.429,0:16:36.788
Forced migration is [br]a terrifying flight
0:16:36.788,0:16:38.808
into uncertainty and precarity
0:16:38.808,0:16:41.313
... and this is especially true [br]for female refugees
0:16:41.313,0:16:42.645
and migrant workers,
0:16:42.645,0:16:45.058
who face a specific [br]set of risks and dangers,
0:16:45.058,0:16:46.722
on top of the many [br]challenges shared
0:16:46.722,0:16:48.373
by their male counterparts.
0:16:48.973,0:16:51.207
As war, [br]territorial dispossession,
0:16:51.207,0:16:54.960
extreme economic inequality [br]and climate change continue
0:16:54.960,0:16:57.909
to destabilize our world, [br]humanity sits poised
0:16:57.909,0:17:00.570
on the threshold of an era [br]of even greater levels
0:17:00.570,0:17:02.704
of dislocation [br]and displacement.
0:17:02.704,0:17:04.611
And as [br]this process accelerates,
0:17:04.611,0:17:06.989
women will continue to[br]bear the heaviest burden.
0:17:10.311,0:17:13.674
The feminization of migration [br]is basically the reality
0:17:13.674,0:17:18.290
that women continue to be [br]the most impacted by wars,
0:17:18.290,0:17:22.416
by occupations, by militarism,[br]by climate change,
0:17:22.416,0:17:26.697
by forced poverty as a result[br]of colonialism and neoliberalism.
0:17:26.697,0:17:29.241
And that women are the ones [br]that are primarily on the move.
0:17:29.241,0:17:31.079
In the Global South
0:17:31.079,0:17:34.866
– in much of Africa, [br]Latin America, parts of Asia –
0:17:34.866,0:17:38.067
what you have [br]has been a massive level
0:17:38.067,0:17:39.362
of impoverishment.
0:17:39.362,0:17:44.435
Starting with the debt crisis[br]in the late 1970s
0:17:44.435,0:17:47.150
and then the application [br]of programs
0:17:47.150,0:17:48.883
of structural adjustment,
0:17:48.883,0:17:51.785
which are brutal [br]austerity programs.
0:17:51.785,0:17:54.441
Y'know, what you have [br]across the continents
0:17:54.441,0:17:56.793
is a massive pauperization,
0:17:56.793,0:18:00.350
which then has triggered [br]big migratory flows.
0:18:00.350,0:18:03.707
One of the biggest myths [br]is this idea that
0:18:03.707,0:18:05.479
the so-called 'west' [br]and the Global North
0:18:05.479,0:18:07.156
is so accepting towards refugees.
0:18:07.156,0:18:08.621
The number of people [br]that even make it
0:18:08.621,0:18:10.245
to the Global North [br]is a fraction.
0:18:10.245,0:18:12.575
Most people who are displaced [br]are displaced, y'know,
0:18:12.575,0:18:13.899
within their [br]countries of origin,
0:18:13.899,0:18:15.657
or to neighbouring countries.
0:18:15.657,0:18:17.844
The living conditions [br]of displacement,
0:18:17.844,0:18:19.979
the poverty, [br]the hardship
0:18:19.979,0:18:23.256
... these things have [br]increased domestic violence
0:18:23.256,0:18:25.414
for women often [br]living in camps.
0:18:25.414,0:18:27.942
Because men will take out [br]their frustration on
0:18:27.942,0:18:29.403
the women in their families.
0:18:29.403,0:18:33.070
I've spent a lot of time [br]with refugees in Lebanon,
0:18:33.070,0:18:34.808
in Jordan and in Iraq.
0:18:34.808,0:18:38.449
And in all of those places [br]I've met women that were
0:18:38.449,0:18:41.847
organizing around issues [br]of domestic violence
0:18:41.847,0:18:43.073
or early marriage.
0:18:43.073,0:18:45.320
The kinds of racism, [br]and the anti-migrant backlash
0:18:45.320,0:18:46.736
that we're dealing with [br]all around the world
0:18:46.736,0:18:47.832
– we're seeing this in Europe,
0:18:47.832,0:18:49.614
we're seeing this [br]with Rohingya refugees,
0:18:49.614,0:18:51.435
we're seeing this [br]in the Mediterranean,
0:18:51.435,0:18:53.935
we're seeing this [br]in New Zealand and Manus Island,
0:18:53.935,0:18:55.098
in the United States [br]and Canada
0:18:55.098,0:18:55.927
... really all over.
0:18:55.927,0:18:57.240
Women actually make up [br]more than half
0:18:57.240,0:19:00.306
of the world's migrants and so[br]women are dealing with that.
0:19:00.306,0:19:01.557
And women are also [br]dealing with
0:19:01.557,0:19:04.349
the particular vulnerabilities[br]of being women on the move,
0:19:04.349,0:19:06.124
and facing fortified borders.
0:19:06.124,0:19:08.670
So that means that, y'know, [br]women are really vulnerable
0:19:08.670,0:19:09.963
to rape and sexual violence.
0:19:09.963,0:19:12.915
60% of women who are crossing[br]the southern US border
0:19:12.915,0:19:14.939
reported sexual violence [br]at the border.
0:19:14.939,0:19:17.042
It's just another [br]level of something
0:19:17.042,0:19:18.701
to be used against you.
0:19:18.701,0:19:23.615
Undocumented women who are [br]in domestic abuse situations,
0:19:23.615,0:19:26.016
or who have been[br]sexually assaulted,
0:19:26.016,0:19:28.396
have little to no recourse.
0:19:28.396,0:19:30.265
The fear of being deported,
0:19:30.265,0:19:32.308
the fear of being [br]separated from your children,
0:19:32.308,0:19:36.069
the aggressive deportation[br]tactics that are being used
0:19:36.069,0:19:39.346
... leaves women [br]so much more unprotected.
0:19:39.346,0:19:42.782
They have to face [br]years of isolation,
0:19:42.782,0:19:45.724
exclusion, including violence.
0:19:45.724,0:19:48.072
Because many times [br]when they arrive
0:19:48.072,0:19:49.802
they don't have [br]all the proper documents,
0:19:49.802,0:19:52.258
or their documents [br]are taken away from them.
0:19:52.258,0:19:53.837
And they become exposed
0:19:53.837,0:19:57.401
to very brutal [br]forms of exploitation.
0:19:57.401,0:19:59.188
So people are [br]unwilling to speak out.
0:19:59.188,0:20:00.991
People are unwilling [br]to speak out against
0:20:00.991,0:20:02.922
unfair working conditions,
0:20:02.922,0:20:05.316
or sexual harassment [br]by their employers.
0:20:05.316,0:20:07.140
Always and forever again, [br]y'know,
0:20:07.140,0:20:08.957
in the interests [br]of their children.
0:20:08.957,0:20:12.389
Of survival. [br]Of being able to make a life
0:20:12.389,0:20:14.571
after being forced [br]out of your homeland.
0:20:14.571,0:20:17.030
Women migrants are also, [br]again as often being
0:20:17.030,0:20:18.812
the primary caregivers [br]to their children,
0:20:18.812,0:20:21.159
are often the ones [br]who are responsible for
0:20:21.159,0:20:23.217
the well-being of their kids[br]while they're on the move.
0:20:23.217,0:20:24.991
Or are dealing with [br]family separations.
0:20:24.991,0:20:26.484
So are separated [br]from their kids
0:20:26.484,0:20:27.887
... sometimes for decades.
0:20:27.887,0:20:31.283
And so these are completely [br]related to patriarchy
0:20:31.283,0:20:34.194
in terms of the burden [br]that women face,
0:20:34.194,0:20:36.130
of reproductive labour [br]and domestic labour
0:20:36.130,0:20:37.141
within the home.
0:20:37.141,0:20:39.328
If we look at communities [br]that are still land-based
0:20:39.328,0:20:41.426
– so Indigenous communities, [br]peasant-based communities,
0:20:41.426,0:20:42.608
farming communities,
0:20:42.608,0:20:44.303
in the vast majority [br]of the Global South –
0:20:44.303,0:20:46.118
we know that women [br]are on the front lines
0:20:46.118,0:20:47.812
of tending to their homes.
0:20:47.812,0:20:50.400
To their subsistence-based [br]economies in their communities
0:20:50.400,0:20:51.507
and their villages.
0:20:51.507,0:20:54.565
And so when we are faced with,[br]for example, climate change
0:20:54.565,0:20:56.221
– whether it's drought [br]or flooding,
0:20:56.221,0:20:58.607
it's women [br]who are forced to leave.
0:20:58.607,0:21:01.305
Because women are actually [br]often the primary breadwinners
0:21:01.305,0:21:03.740
in communities where [br]people still are
0:21:03.740,0:21:04.899
rooted in the land.
0:21:04.899,0:21:08.622
When your entire identity, [br]and your entire livelihood,
0:21:08.622,0:21:12.256
and your spiritual practices[br]are all land-based,
0:21:12.256,0:21:14.525
and you're forced [br]to leave the land.
0:21:14.525,0:21:18.157
When you can no longer [br]go to your sacred places.
0:21:18.157,0:21:22.110
Where your stories [br]of origin sprout from.
0:21:22.110,0:21:24.578
Where your people came from.
0:21:24.578,0:21:28.290
The cultural genocide that [br]happens is immeasurable.
0:21:28.490,0:21:31.197
The use of women [br]to support colonial
0:21:31.197,0:21:35.386
or imperialist intervention [br]is nothing new.
0:21:35.386,0:21:37.605
The entire project [br]of colonization,
0:21:37.605,0:21:41.397
of the civilizing mission [br]that dates back 500 years,
0:21:41.397,0:21:43.475
has often used [br]a feminist logic.
0:21:43.475,0:21:46.743
And these kinds of narratives[br]are possible because,
0:21:46.743,0:21:50.047
of course, one of the ways [br]which imperialism works
0:21:50.047,0:21:52.522
is to exclude native voices.
0:21:52.522,0:21:55.629
And this is something that [br]Gayatri Spivak calls
0:21:55.629,0:21:59.071
“the very old civilizing logic[br]of white men and white women
0:21:59.071,0:22:01.413
saving brown women [br]from brown men.”
0:22:01.413,0:22:03.836
Women's bodies being[br]used as a tool in the
0:22:03.836,0:22:06.486
regurgitation [br]of these orientalist
0:22:06.486,0:22:10.122
and islamophobic tropes [br]come not just from states,
0:22:10.122,0:22:12.962
but sadly also from [br]many western leftists
0:22:12.962,0:22:14.415
or western feminists.
0:22:14.415,0:22:17.607
People go to Syria on [br]regime-sponsored trips,
0:22:17.607,0:22:20.836
and then they come back [br]and they write articles about
0:22:20.836,0:22:23.497
how they saw women [br]in bikinis on the beach,
0:22:23.497,0:22:26.606
or women drinking [br]alcohol in night clubs.
0:22:26.606,0:22:28.525
And the message that [br]that sends is:
0:22:28.525,0:22:32.374
“OK... genocide's okay, [br]as long as the social and
0:22:32.374,0:22:36.254
liberated elite of Damascus[br]can party in bikinis.”
0:22:36.254,0:22:38.274
And it's obviously absurd.
0:22:38.274,0:22:40.501
The thing about feminism [br]is that
0:22:40.501,0:22:43.493
it can take on [br]so many different forms.
0:22:43.493,0:22:46.033
And so it is not uncommon [br]for the state,
0:22:46.033,0:22:49.790
and particularly Empire, [br]to take on feminism
0:22:49.790,0:22:52.094
as a putatively [br]progressive logic.
0:22:52.094,0:22:53.540
And we also [br]see it similarly in
0:22:53.540,0:22:54.757
the Prison-Industrial-Complex,
0:22:54.757,0:22:56.535
where we're told that [br]we need more prisons
0:22:56.535,0:22:57.785
and we need more cops.
0:22:57.785,0:22:59.431
Because we need [br]to protect women.
0:22:59.431,0:23:01.712
I think that it's important [br]to highlight how Black women
0:23:01.712,0:23:04.255
are affected by carcerality[br]and by state violence.
0:23:04.255,0:23:06.853
Black women are incarcerated[br]at something like four times
0:23:06.853,0:23:08.551
the rate of white women.
0:23:08.551,0:23:10.363
The criminalization [br]of Black women
0:23:10.363,0:23:13.471
is also indicative of [br]this idea of a public,
0:23:13.471,0:23:16.297
and public safety that [br]revolves around the threats
0:23:16.297,0:23:17.427
to white women.
0:23:17.427,0:23:19.486
Which includes all [br]Black and Brown people.
0:23:19.486,0:23:21.820
And so the police [br]and prisons
0:23:21.820,0:23:25.064
and military are part [br]of an imperial logic.
0:23:25.064,0:23:29.592
A part of the carceral state [br]that uses, often, a feminist
0:23:29.592,0:23:31.729
logic to advance [br]white supremacy,
0:23:31.729,0:23:33.021
to advance social control.
0:23:36.844,0:23:39.349
It is often said that[br]revolutionary theory
0:23:39.349,0:23:41.528
is the domain of [br]bearded old white men.
0:23:41.528,0:23:44.958
Not only does this myth[br]invisibilize the countless
0:23:44.958,0:23:47.945
theoretical contributions [br]made by female revolutionaries
0:23:47.945,0:23:49.003
over the years,
0:23:49.003,0:23:52.330
from Rosa Luxembourg[br]to Comandanta Ramona,
0:23:52.330,0:23:55.168
it also ignores the fact [br]that during the long period
0:23:55.168,0:23:57.676
when men enjoyed the [br]near exclusive right to have
0:23:57.676,0:24:00.150
their ideas published [br]and debated, women were
0:24:00.150,0:24:03.427
busy putting revolutionary[br]theory into practice.
0:24:04.107,0:24:06.500
From Louise Michel, [br]who held down the barricades
0:24:06.500,0:24:09.894
of the Paris Commune while [br]tending to wounded comrades,
0:24:09.894,0:24:10.824
to Lucy Parsons,
0:24:10.824,0:24:13.203
co-founder of the Industrial[br]Workers of the World
0:24:13.203,0:24:15.904
and a woman the Chicago Police[br]once described as
0:24:15.904,0:24:18.328
“more dangerous [br]than a thousand rioters”.
0:24:18.328,0:24:19.541
From Emma Goldman,
0:24:19.541,0:24:22.211
who once beat Johann Most [br]on stage with a horsewhip
0:24:22.211,0:24:23.540
for talking shit,
0:24:23.540,0:24:25.117
to Maria Nikiforova,
0:24:25.117,0:24:27.704
the feared Ukrainian [br]anarchist military commander
0:24:27.704,0:24:30.962
and executioner of White [br]Guards and Bolsheviks alike.
0:24:30.962,0:24:32.380
From Kanno Sugako,
0:24:32.380,0:24:35.249
who was hanged at the age [br]of 29 for her failed attempt
0:24:35.249,0:24:37.256
to assassinate [br]the Emperor of Japan,
0:24:37.256,0:24:38.672
to Assata Shakur,
0:24:38.672,0:24:41.745
who managed to escape the [br]bowels of the US gulag system
0:24:41.745,0:24:44.047
and has now been on [br]the FBI's Most Wanted List
0:24:44.047,0:24:45.581
for nearly four decades.
0:24:46.141,0:24:47.879
Not to mention [br]the countless other women
0:24:47.879,0:24:50.056
who've carried out [br]propaganda of the deed,
0:24:50.056,0:24:53.350
rioted, led peasant revolts, [br]and fought on the front lines
0:24:53.350,0:24:55.062
of revolutions [br]around the world.
0:24:55.062,0:24:57.926
And to this day, women [br]are still holding it down,
0:24:57.926,0:25:00.467
taking the lead in countless [br]struggles around the world,
0:25:00.467,0:25:03.212
whether they're those waged[br]against resource extraction
0:25:03.212,0:25:05.715
and the ongoing theft [br]of Indigenous lands,
0:25:05.715,0:25:08.737
the liberation of Syrian [br]territories from Daesh
0:25:08.737,0:25:11.603
and the fight against [br]Turkish aggression in Rojava,
0:25:11.603,0:25:13.662
or the struggle [br]against racist policing
0:25:13.662,0:25:15.470
in the so-called [br]United States.
0:25:16.138,0:25:18.819
I think that any organizing[br]should be feminist organizing.
0:25:18.819,0:25:21.026
I think that if there is [br]something that's affecting
0:25:21.026,0:25:23.338
your community [br]that you want to address,
0:25:23.338,0:25:26.278
it should be [br]with an anti-colonial,
0:25:26.278,0:25:29.372
women-centered, [br]matriarchal focus.
0:25:30.452,0:25:33.614
And so for me [br]the kind of feminism that
0:25:33.614,0:25:36.632
I'm interested in talking about[br]is not a kind of feminism
0:25:36.632,0:25:38.636
that is interested [br]in social control.
0:25:38.636,0:25:41.361
Is not a feminism [br]that is interested in
0:25:41.361,0:25:44.155
who the fuck a CEO is, [br]or who the next president
0:25:44.155,0:25:46.003
is going to be, of Empire.
0:25:46.003,0:25:47.854
But it's a kind of feminism [br]that's based
0:25:47.854,0:25:48.956
on liberation, right?
0:25:48.956,0:25:50.979
That is anti-capitalist, [br]that is anti-racist,
0:25:50.979,0:25:52.080
and more and more and more.
0:25:52.080,0:25:53.117
And that seeks freedom.
0:25:53.117,0:25:54.807
Any kinds of feminism
0:25:54.807,0:25:56.619
– imperial feminisms [br]and otherwise –
0:25:56.619,0:25:59.651
that seek more control, [br]that seek more domination,
0:25:59.651,0:26:02.842
are the antithesis [br]of what feminism is about
0:26:02.842,0:26:06.069
if we understand feminism [br]to be a lens of liberation.
0:26:06.919,0:26:10.596
I hope that the new [br]emerging feminist movement
0:26:10.596,0:26:13.134
is learning [br]the lessons of the past.
0:26:13.134,0:26:16.972
You cannot imagine to [br]change the condition of women
0:26:16.972,0:26:20.936
simply by shifting [br]forms of exploitation.
0:26:20.936,0:26:25.873
It's very important instead [br]to understand, y'know,
0:26:25.873,0:26:29.143
what are [br]the structural mechanisms
0:26:29.143,0:26:32.486
that allow for [br]that exploitation?
0:26:32.486,0:26:35.035
And this is where [br]we have to organize.
0:26:36.725,0:26:39.684
Feminist projects that [br]are really exciting right now
0:26:39.684,0:26:43.351
are feminisms that understand[br]the different connections
0:26:43.351,0:26:45.823
between all the different [br]systems that we're living in.
0:26:46.593,0:26:48.851
Working-class feminisms, [br]for example.
0:26:48.851,0:26:52.727
Feminisms that center the[br]experiences of sex workers.
0:26:52.727,0:26:55.312
Transfeminisms, [br]Indigenous feminisms,
0:26:55.312,0:26:56.888
Black feminisms, [br]migrant feminisms,
0:26:56.888,0:26:58.179
all of these things [br]that understand
0:26:58.179,0:26:59.715
that these systems [br]are connected,
0:26:59.715,0:27:01.333
and that feminism [br]is not simply
0:27:01.333,0:27:04.414
the advancement of some women[br]at the expense of others.
0:27:04.414,0:27:08.198
I'm also most interested [br]in feminism that is aiming
0:27:08.198,0:27:11.186
to visibilize all the [br]different kinds of labour
0:27:11.186,0:27:13.645
that exists in our society.
0:27:14.415,0:27:16.715
We need to learn [br]from their experiences.
0:27:16.715,0:27:18.802
We need to [br]promote their voices.
0:27:18.802,0:27:21.193
And in that way, [br]we can address some of this
0:27:21.193,0:27:23.992
current imbalance [br]and ensure that Syrian women
0:27:23.992,0:27:27.368
are able to speak for [br]and represent themselves.
0:27:28.278,0:27:30.486
Just make a girl gang,[br]you know?
0:27:30.486,0:27:31.280
Everyone should just have
0:27:31.280,0:27:33.043
their own girl gang [br]in their neighbourhoods,
0:27:33.043,0:27:34.271
and in their communities.
0:27:34.271,0:27:35.736
Our movements [br]will never be effective
0:27:35.736,0:27:37.197
if we don't feel safe in them.
0:27:38.217,0:27:40.069
Both anarchism [br]and Black feminism
0:27:40.069,0:27:43.420
are theorizing about the [br]violence of racial capitalism.
0:27:43.420,0:27:45.647
They're theorizing [br]about the violence
0:27:45.647,0:27:47.464
of the American state.
0:27:47.464,0:27:48.870
To synthesize the two
0:27:48.870,0:27:51.749
into a Black feminist [br]anarchism, for example,
0:27:51.749,0:27:55.703
would be to make [br]more efficient the racial
0:27:55.703,0:27:57.554
and gender [br]critiques of the state.
0:27:57.554,0:28:00.260
And to also racialize [br]the anti-state
0:28:00.260,0:28:02.483
politic of anarchism.
0:28:03.483,0:28:06.722
I encourage women [br]and femme folks
0:28:06.722,0:28:10.045
to get involved in [br]male-dominated spaces
0:28:10.045,0:28:12.165
... but go in and [br]have each others' backs.
0:28:12.165,0:28:14.472
And change those [br]spaces into something
0:28:14.472,0:28:17.386
that's more welcoming [br]and more inclusive
0:28:17.386,0:28:19.043
of people of all genders.
0:28:19.043,0:28:24.370
And that doesn't necessarily [br]mean making it less radical,
0:28:24.370,0:28:27.351
or taking less [br]confrontational action.
0:28:27.351,0:28:30.510
And it doesn't mean [br]shifting priorities to
0:28:30.510,0:28:34.388
try to prioritize care work[br]over revolutionary struggle,
0:28:34.388,0:28:36.087
or aggressive or [br]confrontational work.
0:28:36.087,0:28:40.327
It means to re-contextualize [br]those kinds of things
0:28:40.327,0:28:42.750
as not in the [br]realm of machismo,
0:28:42.750,0:28:45.897
but as something that people[br]of all genders engage in.
0:28:46.707,0:28:50.136
I don't know that violence [br]is always the answer,
0:28:50.136,0:28:53.486
but I think in some situations[br]it can be an answer.
0:28:53.486,0:28:57.715
And if you're talking about [br]femicide, rape culture,
0:28:57.715,0:29:01.352
sexual violence, the rise [br]of the misogynist right
0:29:01.352,0:29:04.303
... I think that's a situation [br]in which everything
0:29:04.303,0:29:06.660
should be on the table [br]to at least discuss.
0:29:06.660,0:29:09.405
You don't wanna give up your[br]ability to engage in that way.
0:29:09.405,0:29:10.938
That makes you [br]very vulnerable.
0:29:10.938,0:29:14.086
I don't believe [br]in silver bullets
0:29:14.086,0:29:16.345
... or I think there's [br]a lot of important
0:29:16.345,0:29:18.894
and meaningful [br]work to be done.
0:29:18.894,0:29:21.295
That's less about [br]the specific issue
0:29:21.295,0:29:23.250
or area that [br]you're focusing on,
0:29:23.250,0:29:25.888
but more about [br]how you're engaging with it.
0:29:25.888,0:29:29.788
Are you looking at things[br]beyond just individual actions?
0:29:29.788,0:29:32.868
Trying to look at it in [br]terms of collective responses
0:29:32.868,0:29:35.088
... material responses?
0:29:35.088,0:29:37.953
Are you looking at [br]trying to build autonomy
0:29:37.953,0:29:39.367
outside of the state?
0:29:39.367,0:29:42.151
Are you looking at trying [br]to build a feminist politics
0:29:42.151,0:29:46.352
that isn't just about [br]petitioning to representatives
0:29:46.352,0:29:50.327
or trying to get more [br]institutional representation?
0:29:50.327,0:29:52.849
I think the world [br]is generally shit.
0:29:52.849,0:29:55.207
But I think because [br]it's generally shit,
0:29:55.207,0:29:57.873
the only worthwhile [br]thing to do is struggle.
0:29:57.873,0:30:01.988
And I feel like there's a lot[br]of really inspiring history
0:30:01.988,0:30:04.127
and a lot of [br]really amazing people
0:30:04.127,0:30:06.472
who have fought back [br]and struggled
0:30:06.472,0:30:07.921
in a lot of different ways.
0:30:07.921,0:30:09.224
And it's useful to sort of [br]look at some of
0:30:09.224,0:30:10.511
the different things [br]that they did.
0:30:12.602,0:30:14.218
Although there's still [br]a long way to go
0:30:14.218,0:30:16.655
to the abolition of [br]gender-based inequality,
0:30:16.655,0:30:19.281
the past few decades have seen[br]major advancements
0:30:19.281,0:30:20.735
for women around the world.
0:30:20.735,0:30:22.674
Each step forward [br]has been a struggle,
0:30:22.674,0:30:25.057
as men of all stripes[br]have sought to retain
0:30:25.057,0:30:27.549
the various manifestations[br]of power and control
0:30:27.549,0:30:29.380
afforded them [br]under patriarchy.
0:30:29.910,0:30:32.207
But today, even many of [br]these hard-fought victories
0:30:32.207,0:30:34.106
are under threat [br]of being clawed back
0:30:34.106,0:30:36.533
by resurgent movements [br]of male reaction,
0:30:36.533,0:30:40.187
authoritarian nationalism [br]and religious fundamentalism.
0:30:40.187,0:30:42.837
From MRAs, who blame feminists
0:30:42.837,0:30:45.968
for the many hardships [br]that men face under capitalism
0:30:45.968,0:30:48.699
to the violent misogyny[br]that has embedded itself
0:30:48.699,0:30:50.106
at the heart of the alt-right,
0:30:50.106,0:30:52.401
to the religious fanaticism[br]of Mike Pence
0:30:52.401,0:30:53.813
and the Islamic State.
0:30:53.813,0:30:55.964
This is no time for us [br]to rest on the laurels
0:30:55.964,0:30:57.655
of our past achievements
0:30:57.655,0:31:00.491
... it is crucial that we [br]continue to deepen and extend
0:31:00.491,0:31:03.076
the struggle against [br]patriarchy on all fronts,
0:31:03.076,0:31:06.112
and that we prepare ourselves[br]for the battles to come.
0:31:06.112,0:31:08.283
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