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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.42,0:00:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.94,0:00:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is sister doctor Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.17,0:00:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,founder of the School of Our Lorde,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.94,0:00:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is week 3 of our 21 week
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.57,0:00:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Resurrection Sunday series
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.37,0:00:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in honour of the persistent, unstoppable, survival \Nof the spirit of black lesbian poet warrior mother
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.50,0:00:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audre Lorde.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.63,0:00:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this week, the poem that we're going to look at
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.29,0:00:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is called The Brown Menace, or, \NPoem To The Survival of Roaches,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.16,0:00:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was published in Audre Lorde's collections, \NNew York City Headshop and Museum in 1974.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.46,0:00:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this poem is amazing to me in many ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.79,0:00:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it's one of the places where \Nwe see Audre Lorde talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.58,0:00:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survival on terms that go beyond \Nthe human species.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.26,0:01:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And...oh I have so much to say about this poem...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.19,0:01:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but... why don't you check it out for yourself?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.49,0:01:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Brown Menace,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.03,0:01:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Poem To The Survival of Roaches.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.93,0:01:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.46,0:01:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your deepest urge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.19,0:01:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward survival
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.56,0:01:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.29,0:01:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my brothers and sisters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.16,0:01:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sharp smell of your refusal
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.99,0:01:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.36,0:01:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roach and presumptuous
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.50,0:01:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nightmare on your white pillow
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.24,0:01:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your itch to destroy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.48,0:01:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the indestructible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.24,0:01:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.24,0:01:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call me your own determination
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.49,0:01:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most detestable shape\Nyou can become
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.97,0:01:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,friend of your image\Nwithin me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.47,0:01:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.77,0:01:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your most deeply cherished nightmare
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.04,0:01:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scuttling through the painted cracks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.13,0:02:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you create to admit me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.44,0:02:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your kitchens
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.11,0:02:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your fearful midnights
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.37,0:02:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your values at noon
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.81,0:02:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your most secret places
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.53,0:02:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with hate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.23,0:02:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you learn to honor me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.81,0:02:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by imitation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.67,0:02:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I alter -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.36,0:02:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through your greedy preoccupations
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.42,0:02:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through your kitchen wars
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.64,0:02:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your poisonous refusal -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.21,0:02:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.86,0:02:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.95,0:02:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Survive."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.37,0:02:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this poem is incredible, confrontational,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.20,0:02:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really takes on white supremacy's project
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.90,0:02:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to exterminate people of colour, very specifically,\N"The Brown Menace".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.40,0:02:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So right now in our contemporary society,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.70,0:02:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what immigration policy looks like,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.44,0:02:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the war on drugs, \Ni.e. the war on the poor, looks like,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.01,0:03:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the same project of extermination,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.17,0:03:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can see it in, um, 1978,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.81,0:03:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michel Foucault would talk about it in terms of\Nwhat's now called "biopolitics",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.02,0:03:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanna remind you all this poem came out in 1974,\N{\i1}before{\i0} he coined that term.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.20,0:03:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\b1}And{\b0}, this is an incredibly confrontational way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.53,0:03:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say that when you seek to\Nmarginalize a portion of your own species,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.80,0:03:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you seek to destroy the \Nindestructible part of yourself;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.72,0:03:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you seek to not survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.98,0:03:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.42,0:03:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this poem is amazing because it does\Nthis deeply interpersonal work
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.34,0:03:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how that which we want to destroy\Nwhen we see it in other people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.90,0:03:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really something we're working through\Nin ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.48,0:04:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By using the figure of the roach in this case,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.03,0:04:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audre Lorde brings out that visceral feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.37,0:04:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The roach being the "most detestable shape",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.14,0:04:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that most hated yet most resilient creature\Nthat we think of or know about on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.79,0:04:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That species that will outlive us, no matter what\Nwe do to ourselves on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.53,0:04:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this poem itself has survived.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.69,0:04:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see legacies of it in the performances \Nof La Chica Boom,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.70,0:04:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who does Juan Cucaracha shows,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.77,0:04:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about what does it mean to take on \Nthat status of the most hated creature.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.57,0:04:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cherrie Moraga shouted out this poem \Nat this event in Oakland several years back,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.55,0:04:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she talked about what it means to say\N"call me roach",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.02,0:04:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really to take on in identification and solidarity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.28,0:04:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that figure that is the most feared\Nby society.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.92,0:04:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I love this poem for all of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.98,0:05:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the assignment, the challenge for you,\Nshould you choose to accept it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.88,0:05:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to think about that person \Nwho gives you that feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.95,0:05:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A person who you are disgusted with.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.94,0:05:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be a person that you know \Nin your community or your life;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.11,0:05:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it may be a political figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.98,0:05:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...For a long time it was Clarence Thomas.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.39,0:05:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And think about what is the lesson \Nfor your evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.65,0:05:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is tied to that feeling you have \Nfor that other person;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.68,0:05:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that other, other other, person,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.60,0:05:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you would want to say is nothing like you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.46,0:05:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually may - in your ability to see them - \Nhold the key to an indestructible part of yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.46,0:05:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an evolution that you can demand from yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.80,0:05:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at this moment because you can see them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.48,0:05:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's your assignment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.76,0:05:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, I want to read one of the poems...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.78,0:06:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked with this poem 26 different times\Nfor all the letters of the alphabet today,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.92,0:06:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wanted to dedicate to us, \Nthis Poem For The Letter S.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.27,0:06:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"S" is for Sunday and survival,\Nand here it is:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.21,0:06:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Poem For The Letter S is
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.50,0:06:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survival
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.31,0:06:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survival
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.54,0:06:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sisters sharp smell shape scuttling secret
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.57,0:06:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survive
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.22,0:06:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survive
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.99,0:06:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.18,0:06:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that is this week's Resurrection Sunday\Nritual for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.32,0:06:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to get in touch with me \Nand find one of your alphabetized poems
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.04,0:06:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to aid you, like a vitamin, as you seek to look at \Nthat indestructible part of yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.96,0:06:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you {\i1}don't{\i0} want to look at,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.22,0:06:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that you're seeing in other people [ {\i1}LAUGHS{\i0} ]\Nwho disgust you,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.95,0:06:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please hit me up,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.42,0:06:56.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can check out the School of Our Lorde webpage
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.75,0:06:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find our how you can get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.79,0:07:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And have such an amazing week!