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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.69,0:00:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, it's me, Sister Doctor Lex,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.98,0:00:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and welcome to week 5 \Nof Audre Lorde Resurrection Sundays.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.90,0:00:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you believe we've already been doing this\Nfor more than a month?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.36,0:00:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks for watching again.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.03,0:00:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, I am in Anguilla visiting my family,\Nand I am {\i1}so{\i0} happy to be here,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.27,0:00:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and definitely feeling very close \Nto the energy of my ancestors
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.88,0:00:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the divinity that I always feel \Nwhen I'm here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.34,0:00:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this week's poem is called "Call",
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.74,0:00:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Audre Lorde's 1986 collection \N"Our Dead Behind Us".
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.45,0:00:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she explains the name of the goddess that you will hear repeated in this poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.94,0:00:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aido Hwedo is the Rainbow Serpent,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.20,0:00:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also in this powm, \Nthe name for all those ancient divinities
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.19,0:00:59.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose names and faces have been forgotten.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.12,0:01:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"{\i1}Call{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.79,0:01:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Holy ghost woman{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.99,0:01:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}stolen out of your name{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.42,0:01:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Rainbow Serpent{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.79,0:01:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}whose faces have been forgotten{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.29,0:01:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Mother, loosen my tongue or adorn me{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.12,0:01:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}with a lighter burden{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.32,0:01:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.96,0:01:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}On worn kitchen stools and tables{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.33,0:01:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}we are piecing our weapons together{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.19,0:01:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}scraps of different histories{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.94,0:01:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}do not let us shatter{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.86,0:01:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}any altar{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.18,0:01:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}she who scrubs the capitol toilets, listening{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.22,0:01:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}is your sister's youngest daughter{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.65,0:02:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}gnarled Harriet's anointed{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.39,0:02:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}you have not been without honor{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.13,0:02:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}even the young guerrilla has chosen{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.36,0:02:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}yells as she fires into the thicket{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.52,0:02:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.76,0:02:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I have written your names on my cheekbone{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.32,0:02:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}dreamed your eyes{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.49,0:02:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}flesh my epiphany{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.95,0:02:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}most ancient goddesses{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.22,0:02:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}hear me enter{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.36,0:02:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I have not forgotten your worship{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.29,0:02:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}nor my sisters{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.46,0:02:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}nor the sons of my daughters{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.39,0:02:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}my children watch for your print\Nin their labors{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.12,0:02:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and they say Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.49,0:02:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I am a Black woman turning{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.79,0:02:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}mouthing your name as a password{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.75,0:02:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}through seductions self-slaughter{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.59,0:02:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and I believe in the holy ghost mother{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.97,0:03:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}in your flames beyond our vision{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.65,0:03:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}blown light through the fingers of women{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.60,0:03:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}enduring warring{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.56,0:03:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes outside your name
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.80,0:03:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}we do not choose all our rituals{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.12,0:03:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Thandi Modise winged girl of Soweto{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.58,0:03:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}brought fire back home in the snout of a mortar{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.32,0:03:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and passes the word from her prison cell{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.45,0:03:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}whispering Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.25,0:03:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Rainbow Serpent who must not go unspoken{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.82,0:03:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I have ottered up the safety of separations{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.18,0:03:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}sung the spirals of power{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.59,0:03:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and what fills the spaces{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.69,0:03:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}before power unfolds or flounders{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.88,0:03:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}in desirable non-essentials{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.51,0:03:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I am a Black woman{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.89,0:03:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}stripped down and praying{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.42,0:03:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}my whole life has been an altar{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.76,0:03:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}worth its ending{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.46,0:04:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and I say Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.72,0:04:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}I may be a weed in the garden{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.90,0:04:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}of women I have loved{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.78,0:04:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}who are still trapped in their season{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.56,0:04:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}but even they shriek{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.49,0:04:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}as they rip burning gold from their skins{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.83,0:04:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.98,0:04:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}We are learning by heart{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.95,0:04:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}what has never been taught{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.38,0:04:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}you are my given fire-tongued{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.09,0:04:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Oya Seboulisa Mawu Afrekete{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.39,0:04:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and now we are mourning our sisters{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.19,0:04:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}lost to the false hush of sorrow{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.06,0:04:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}to hardness and hatchets and childbirth{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.22,0:04:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and we are shouting{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.02,0:04:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.78,0:04:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Assata Shakur and Yaa Asantewa{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.78,0:04:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}my mother and Winnie Mandela \Nare singing in my throat{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.82,0:05:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}the holy ghosts linguist{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.08,0:05:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}one iron silence broken{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.28,0:05:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is calling{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.82,0:05:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}calling{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.09,0:05:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}your daughters are named{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.59,0:05:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and conceiving{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.18,0:05:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Mother loosen my tongue{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.31,0:05:13.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}or adorn me{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.93,0:05:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}with a lighter burden{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.82,0:05:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.20,0:05:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.38,0:05:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Aido Hwedo is coming.{\i0}"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.34,0:05:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So of course, I love this poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.37,0:05:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that this poem is about collective survival,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.61,0:05:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the survival of that black, feminine, \Ntransformative, warrior spirit,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.84,0:05:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,divinely flowing through Audre Lorde of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.07,0:05:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flowing through anyone who reembodies \Nand narrates this poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.10,0:06:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flowing through, as she names, the sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.50,0:06:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the daughters, the sons of the daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.79,0:06:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the closeted women who she loves and \Nwho treat her like a weed in their garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.30,0:06:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still, that energy moves through.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.58,0:06:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am so grateful for the way that energy \Ncan be with us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.27,0:06:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way this poem makes space \Nfor that energy to move through
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.38,0:06:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as faith, as wisdom, as each of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.32,0:06:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And speaking of South Africa, and clearing space,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.87,0:06:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and black feminine transformative warrior divinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.30,0:06:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and calling names,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.64,0:06:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gloria Joseph sent out a very timely and pointed email recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.57,0:06:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking from a black feminist perspective
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.37,0:06:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why is it, that as we honour \Nand uplift Nelson Mandela,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.36,0:06:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his recent transition to join the ancestors,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.26,0:07:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the name Winnie Mandela \Nhas been conspicuously absent,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.57,0:07:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has not been lifted up \Nin the way that it might be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.12,0:07:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so in the spirit of honouring that inquiry,\Nwhich I think we could all think about,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.49,0:07:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lifting up the name of Winnie Mandela \Nas Audre Lorde does in this poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.99,0:07:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to offer the Poem For The Letter W
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.20,0:07:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I distilled when I was reading through, \Nworking with this poem, 26 times.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.82,0:07:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the Poem For The Letter W.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.97,0:07:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman whose worn
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.80,0:07:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we weapons without written worship
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.43,0:07:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watch woman women warring
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.14,0:07:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we winged word whispering
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.12,0:07:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who? what woman?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.26,0:08:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whole worth weed women
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.27,0:08:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who? we
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.84,0:08:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what? we.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.57,0:08:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we, Winnie Mandela."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.03,0:08:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your assignment this week
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.72,0:08:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to call the names of those ancestrally present,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.22,0:08:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those living, those who you intend to live one day,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.49,0:08:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will carry this warrior, transformative energy \Nthat we so need in the times that we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.98,0:08:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So call the names of your own ancestors,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.92,0:08:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call the names of the warriors you admire,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.35,0:08:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call your own name in the mirror,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.35,0:08:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this week, making space for that transformative energy that you may need,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.38,0:08:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a warrior in your own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.42,0:08:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we certainly, collectively, need
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.62,0:08:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as those who have the stewardship \Nfor carrying this energy forward
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.69,0:09:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among our species and on our planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.35,0:09:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As always, I am so grateful to Audre Lorde \Nfor giving us the space, giving us this poem
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.29,0:09:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a ritual to bring that energy through.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.37,0:09:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm so happy to be able to share it with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.95,0:09:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please do check out the School of Our Lorde website
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.06,0:09:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hit me up if you are interested \Nin having your own custom poem,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.40,0:09:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in working more with the energy of the Lorde,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.00,0:09:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and... yes! I will see you next week,\Nfrom Anguilla again,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.96,0:09:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Resurrection Sunday.