WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.710 --> 00:00:02.550 align:middle line:90% "Alyson Singes". 00:00:02.550 --> 00:00:05.180 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.180 --> 00:00:07.010 align:middle line:90% Hi all, I'm Alyson. 00:00:07.010 --> 00:00:08.990 align:middle line:90% Some people call me Al. 00:00:08.990 --> 00:00:10.550 align:middle line:90% I am many things to many. 00:00:10.550 --> 00:00:13.160 align:middle line:84% A few thyinge to some, and nothing 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.340 align:middle line:84% but an irritant to socialites and othire glossing 00:00:16.340 --> 00:00:17.960 align:middle line:90% troglodytes. 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:19.340 align:middle line:90% Just don't call me Alice. 00:00:19.340 --> 00:00:22.280 align:middle line:84% I dig conversation, but the only rabbit I ever liked 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:25.010 align:middle line:84% is rabbit in prunes of Agen, sauted in duck fat, 00:00:25.010 --> 00:00:27.680 align:middle line:90% or a conys in Hoggepotte. 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:30.500 align:middle line:84% It's been a long time, quod she, some and 600. 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:33.200 align:middle line:84% Everything was different, yet pretty much the same. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.420 align:middle line:84% God above ruled all, and the Franks the rest. 00:00:35.420 --> 00:00:38.130 align:middle line:84% Womenfolk were owned, ne trafficked, nor ghosted, and so 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:39.950 align:middle line:90% were most workfolk enserfed. 00:00:39.950 --> 00:00:43.220 align:middle line:84% Sunsets were redder then-- legs, a little shorter. 00:00:43.220 --> 00:00:46.250 align:middle line:84% In my time, I made my bed a stretch a streowen. 00:00:46.250 --> 00:00:48.230 align:middle line:90% For many leien in hoo we did! 00:00:48.230 --> 00:00:50.090 align:middle line:90% It's like ha said, my mie Emma-- 00:00:50.090 --> 00:00:52.430 align:middle line:84% Goldman, great lasse, freedom fighter. 00:00:52.430 --> 00:00:54.440 align:middle line:90% Ha loose, free from ties-- 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:59.240 align:middle line:84% if I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.550 align:middle line:84% You know tis on the home front, it begins. 00:01:01.550 --> 00:01:03.080 align:middle line:90% Womenfolks development. 00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:06.605 align:middle line:84% Hire freedom, hire independence, must come from and through hire 00:01:06.605 --> 00:01:07.940 align:middle line:90% self, quod she. 00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:10.700 align:middle line:84% And ha poked how she preached, she reproached, 00:01:10.700 --> 00:01:12.380 align:middle line:84% and she fought and paid a high price 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:14.270 align:middle line:84% for a whole lot of decent raving. 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:17.660 align:middle line:84% I kenow this wheel, who've got a big front, I can't deny. 00:01:17.660 --> 00:01:18.650 align:middle line:90% I've got appetit. 00:01:18.650 --> 00:01:22.070 align:middle line:84% It's for fighting and humming, for heming good fight ability. 00:01:22.070 --> 00:01:24.440 align:middle line:84% Easier said thanne doon, but ne will 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:27.170 align:middle line:84% have lovemakes plow my garden without checking out 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:30.650 align:middle line:84% the instruments and the state of their flowering. 00:01:30.650 --> 00:01:32.560 align:middle line:84% And that is basically how she-- for there 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.060 align:middle line:84% could be no doubt of her sex, though the fashion of the time 00:01:35.060 --> 00:01:37.820 align:middle line:84% did something to disguise it, chopped the esitant haitch off 00:01:37.820 --> 00:01:39.980 align:middle line:84% my head with a vigorous smile and entered 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:43.040 align:middle line:90% the scene of my need. 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.190 align:middle line:84% Lo, she seyde, dont bleed me, give me light. 00:01:46.190 --> 00:01:48.200 align:middle line:84% Everywhere I go, I hear about what 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.800 align:middle line:84% was a range of movements and battles for social revolution, 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:55.430 align:middle line:84% love and respeck and swich human diuersitie-- all manner 00:01:55.430 --> 00:01:57.260 align:middle line:90% of this, that, and the annar dm. 00:01:57.260 --> 00:01:59.300 align:middle line:84% What was serious glosage and causes 00:01:59.300 --> 00:02:02.810 align:middle line:84% in groups and cells of selves, deep corage for deep psycho 00:02:02.810 --> 00:02:04.580 align:middle line:90% rev groping together. 00:02:04.580 --> 00:02:07.490 align:middle line:84% Pushing the homefront out in all fields and croppings, 00:02:07.490 --> 00:02:09.590 align:middle line:84% laboring your entries into history, 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:10.850 align:middle line:90% I am majorly impressed. 00:02:10.850 --> 00:02:12.260 align:middle line:90% Yea should be dancing-- 00:02:12.260 --> 00:02:16.340 align:middle line:84% Course for certayn, nis all what gold glitters. 00:02:16.340 --> 00:02:18.140 align:middle line:90% Ye tell me nah that ye free. 00:02:18.140 --> 00:02:21.470 align:middle line:84% Crusading got jammed in larder, sugary spices still rise 00:02:21.470 --> 00:02:24.470 align:middle line:84% from the ire of your fruits, hidden held up tightly 00:02:24.470 --> 00:02:27.920 align:middle line:84% from grouperie, don't proteck cont protest, much open 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:28.790 align:middle line:90% to abusage. 00:02:28.790 --> 00:02:31.640 align:middle line:84% Didn't break nuff skin sgot a bad vibe, all gone volauvent, 00:02:31.640 --> 00:02:34.340 align:middle line:84% barely scratchte the crust of that pasty geologically 00:02:34.340 --> 00:02:35.060 align:middle line:90% speaking. 00:02:35.060 --> 00:02:39.110 align:middle line:84% Nested generacion wilt open same olde bloody can, 00:02:39.110 --> 00:02:41.480 align:middle line:90% what's for certeyn. 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:44.780 align:middle line:84% Ye tell me still, no woman, no lie's, still a no go zone, 00:02:44.780 --> 00:02:45.740 align:middle line:90% violent fliquée. 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:48.500 align:middle line:84% Full of flipping eruptions and reruns, voices, 00:02:48.500 --> 00:02:51.290 align:middle line:84% voices whimpering, language, language, language. 00:02:51.290 --> 00:02:54.020 align:middle line:84% Names hurled down, doors pushed down, bodies burned. 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:57.290 align:middle line:84% Burns bashed to pull, pounded, pissed on, drag, drop, remove. 00:02:57.290 --> 00:02:59.840 align:middle line:84% Noffing under low ceilings but the peeling of pain, 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:01.880 align:middle line:90% and I'm barely glosing. 00:03:01.880 --> 00:03:04.820 align:middle line:84% Experience shows any one hark ye, listen up, 00:03:04.820 --> 00:03:08.320 align:middle line:84% never be any free all pawned in 2D wooed in mirage. 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:09.920 align:middle line:90% Gender is no army for nought. 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:11.810 align:middle line:90% A structure for industry innit. 00:03:11.810 --> 00:03:15.925 align:middle line:84% Indeedy don't know any oon, born oh, but oh, become so-- 00:03:15.925 --> 00:03:18.380 align:middle line:84% 'member ne give a fig takes the queen that which 00:03:18.380 --> 00:03:19.880 align:middle line:90% bulges same trousing. 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:22.130 align:middle line:84% Folk be arranged one type per pair, 00:03:22.130 --> 00:03:24.980 align:middle line:84% so never be stood for long one on one. 00:03:24.980 --> 00:03:26.510 align:middle line:90% Disallowed one for one. 00:03:26.510 --> 00:03:29.270 align:middle line:84% Nor on any accounting there be o wit o. 00:03:29.270 --> 00:03:32.870 align:middle line:84% And what if I present as a pair of divine cows diverse in form, 00:03:32.870 --> 00:03:35.450 align:middle line:84% free to chew, 'n nit be jailed nor killed for it. 00:03:35.450 --> 00:03:38.335 align:middle line:84% What if I pressent three graces, the good, the bold, 00:03:38.335 --> 00:03:38.960 align:middle line:90% and the shaved. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.870 align:middle line:84% Like that pic-- by what great queer Della Grace 'n 00:03:41.870 --> 00:03:43.430 align:middle line:90% nat be jailed nor killed for it. 00:03:43.430 --> 00:03:46.100 align:middle line:84% Or like what artist Rodney McMillan, who sow 00:03:46.100 --> 00:03:48.920 align:middle line:84% seams to see what seems to keep things the way 00:03:48.920 --> 00:03:51.620 align:middle line:84% they moostn't be like, things black like shiny, 00:03:51.620 --> 00:03:54.170 align:middle line:84% landscape of black textile erectiles for instance, 00:03:54.170 --> 00:03:56.240 align:middle line:84% sown up in white thread-- what do ye see? 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:56.930 align:middle line:90% Red. 00:03:56.930 --> 00:03:59.390 align:middle line:84% Certes everything feels different. 00:03:59.390 --> 00:04:01.460 align:middle line:90% Lo, the rains are devastating. 00:04:01.460 --> 00:04:03.830 align:middle line:84% Networks vaster than all of England's castels 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:07.340 align:middle line:84% assembled but perhappes tis more like same bus, more workers, 00:04:07.340 --> 00:04:10.220 align:middle line:84% more voters, or even more workers-- 00:04:10.220 --> 00:04:12.630 align:middle line:90% less votes. 00:04:12.630 --> 00:04:17.660 align:middle line:84% Doubt enters oon, doubt works on ones, doubt has that one, 00:04:17.660 --> 00:04:21.589 align:middle line:84% doubt questions hire, doubt increases doubt, dissipates 00:04:21.589 --> 00:04:25.050 align:middle line:84% anger, overwhelm, doubt overtakes, over does it, 00:04:25.050 --> 00:04:26.780 align:middle line:90% doubt eats, out at the throat. 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:29.072 align:middle line:84% Eats out the foughts, doubt eats out the love, 00:04:29.072 --> 00:04:32.030 align:middle line:84% enters the liver, the kidneys, doubt builds up more bile. 00:04:32.030 --> 00:04:34.910 align:middle line:84% Blocks the arteries, cramps up the limbs, the style-- 00:04:34.910 --> 00:04:37.970 align:middle line:84% doubt balloons oon, doubt makes them heavy with doubt, 00:04:37.970 --> 00:04:40.100 align:middle line:84% and they grow absent, hair by hair. 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:43.320 align:middle line:90% 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:46.680 align:middle line:84% Searching my bodice, I objected it to various kinds, 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:48.810 align:middle line:90% wrapping my body around my neck. 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:51.810 align:middle line:84% Nat ulikt a goose, a swan, or a cran-- 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:53.400 align:middle line:90% strakt to crane, 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:55.165 align:middle line:84% certes my neck thus stretched, nat 00:04:55.165 --> 00:04:59.040 align:middle line:84% ulikt the common hern or heron, or powerful cormeraunt. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.130 align:middle line:84% Low flying ocean catcher what strange flemengo 00:05:02.130 --> 00:05:04.890 align:middle line:84% is the sacred ibis, round and round, the ancient 00:05:04.890 --> 00:05:06.390 align:middle line:90% and the recent egrets. 00:05:06.390 --> 00:05:09.480 align:middle line:84% My throat was wrapde to limit around itself. 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.110 align:middle line:84% Bad air come out this side of knot, that side the nus, 00:05:13.110 --> 00:05:15.540 align:middle line:84% a bestiary unhinges a rep of forgetting. 00:05:15.540 --> 00:05:18.480 align:middle line:84% I knew bare bones about kenowing and kenulling, 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.780 align:middle line:84% negating annulling, move into muscle focus. 00:05:21.780 --> 00:05:23.730 align:middle line:90% Ye know, ignorance nis bliss. 00:05:23.730 --> 00:05:25.770 align:middle line:84% This shackle been warping my fitness. 00:05:25.770 --> 00:05:28.680 align:middle line:84% Nah the animal is in me thinking, growing, learning, 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.310 align:middle line:84% pumping my bum cheeks to breast buns-- mental concentrate 00:05:32.310 --> 00:05:33.270 align:middle line:90% much improved. 00:05:33.270 --> 00:05:35.370 align:middle line:90% Soon could chillax my efforts. 00:05:35.370 --> 00:05:36.900 align:middle line:90% Soften up with ointments. 00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.160 align:middle line:90% Get waxed all over. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.380 align:middle line:84% Mead and prepare for all those that 00:05:40.380 --> 00:05:43.590 align:middle line:84% would be precious without doubt make me trouly. 00:05:43.590 --> 00:05:45.210 align:middle line:90% Get your freak on, I said. 00:05:45.210 --> 00:05:47.040 align:middle line:90% Some founde me 2 sexy. 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.770 align:middle line:84% Same 2 saucy, just like a maiden, 00:05:49.770 --> 00:05:51.570 align:middle line:84% touched for the very firest time. 00:05:51.570 --> 00:05:53.550 align:middle line:90% Some me founde real hot. 00:05:53.550 --> 00:05:56.130 align:middle line:84% Ik feel love, I said throughout summer. 00:05:56.130 --> 00:05:58.530 align:middle line:84% Then I spin round a recors, I'm alone. 00:05:58.530 --> 00:06:01.380 align:middle line:84% It's like ha said, slim lady, from now on I 00:06:01.380 --> 00:06:03.405 align:middle line:90% commit my body and my language. 00:06:03.405 --> 00:06:06.420 align:middle line:90% 00:06:06.420 --> 00:06:09.790 align:middle line:84% Byways, please nat let what weedy poet, Caroline Bergman 00:06:09.790 --> 00:06:11.745 align:middle line:90% or outher represent me. 00:06:11.745 --> 00:06:14.880 align:middle line:84% Ha means well, but won't go the whole hog-- too bloody 00:06:14.880 --> 00:06:17.370 align:middle line:84% well educated, makes her circumflexed. 00:06:17.370 --> 00:06:20.190 align:middle line:84% All these books, and still hey don't-- and still, 00:06:20.190 --> 00:06:21.900 align:middle line:84% hey doesn't finish her sentence/s. 00:06:21.900 --> 00:06:24.660 align:middle line:84% She just doesn't have a big front, far too creeped out. 00:06:24.660 --> 00:06:26.550 align:middle line:90% Books used to be me forbidden. 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:28.530 align:middle line:90% And writing them unfinkable. 00:06:28.530 --> 00:06:31.800 align:middle line:84% Some things best women not understand, affirmed Juvenal, 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.420 align:middle line:90% or was that Furnivall. 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:35.250 align:middle line:84% Language cropped back to minimum for 00:06:35.250 --> 00:06:38.550 align:middle line:84% fear I might speak like Eve did who spoke, Saint Bernard sayn, 00:06:38.550 --> 00:06:41.910 align:middle line:84% but once and threw the world into disorder. 00:06:41.910 --> 00:06:45.300 align:middle line:84% Books, or bokes, or bookes, as we call them then, 00:06:45.300 --> 00:06:47.400 align:middle line:84% were used to keep chicks and outher menial 00:06:47.400 --> 00:06:48.780 align:middle line:90% birds on the farm down. 00:06:48.780 --> 00:06:51.810 align:middle line:84% Like Joan ne sheep, and they who burn small fry. 00:06:51.810 --> 00:06:54.960 align:middle line:84% And odires are stoned, while armies of clerics cuss them 00:06:54.960 --> 00:06:56.370 align:middle line:90% with their höly bök. 00:06:56.370 --> 00:06:59.370 align:middle line:84% Certes y wet wool I used to be, physically 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:02.430 align:middle line:84% beaten with large voluminous, leather bound to the bed. 00:07:02.430 --> 00:07:05.700 align:middle line:84% While my many manly folks would read and balk by the fire 00:07:05.700 --> 00:07:08.880 align:middle line:84% at the succubines that fill their pages and agree, Pardee, 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:11.790 align:middle line:84% the sexual life of bitches sure is a dark continent 00:07:11.790 --> 00:07:14.190 align:middle line:90% for psychologie. 00:07:14.190 --> 00:07:16.110 align:middle line:84% This stuff's been filling their pages ever 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:19.080 align:middle line:84% since quote Simone de Beaver at great length. 00:07:19.080 --> 00:07:21.120 align:middle line:84% Pardee, today's mother- hating scribes 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.670 align:middle line:84% squeeze old sham out of the same greased up postules, 00:07:23.670 --> 00:07:26.970 align:middle line:84% just different spelt. By God, if women hadde written stories 00:07:26.970 --> 00:07:29.250 align:middle line:84% as clerkes han withinnne hire oratories, 00:07:29.250 --> 00:07:31.800 align:middle line:84% they wolde han written of men moore wikkednesse than al 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.210 align:middle line:90% the mark of Adam may redresse. 00:07:33.210 --> 00:07:36.270 align:middle line:84% So what's the use of more books, if they don't fight back? 00:07:36.270 --> 00:07:39.060 align:middle line:84% Give me piss factory, give me the slim lady-- 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:40.470 align:middle line:90% real Slim Lady Jordan. 00:07:40.470 --> 00:07:41.790 align:middle line:90% I'm unspeakable Acker! 00:07:41.790 --> 00:07:43.170 align:middle line:90% Just call me Castor! 00:07:43.170 --> 00:07:45.780 align:middle line:84% What scribe Lispector, and many otheres 00:07:45.780 --> 00:07:49.480 align:middle line:84% miss Demeanors, who namoore axe how to spell YNOGH, than how 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:50.730 align:middle line:90% to spell AMOR. 00:07:50.730 --> 00:07:51.780 align:middle line:90% Can you see? 00:07:51.780 --> 00:07:52.830 align:middle line:90% Can you see? 00:07:52.830 --> 00:07:55.590 align:middle line:84% Can you see, they just open their pages wide, 00:07:55.590 --> 00:07:57.870 align:middle line:84% and, Audree Lordee, they give a good affront. 00:07:57.870 --> 00:08:00.090 align:middle line:84% Who kenow how to use books making 00:08:00.090 --> 00:08:03.600 align:middle line:84% me sing, and they dress so fine, and they look so good. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.440 align:middle line:90% 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:10.290 align:middle line:84% I do the best I can, protested I sheepishly. 00:08:10.290 --> 00:08:11.940 align:middle line:90% It's not all of a piece. 00:08:11.940 --> 00:08:15.810 align:middle line:84% I'm not who you think I am, nor am I who you think I should be. 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:18.000 align:middle line:84% Nor in truth, am I who I'd hoped I'd be. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:19.120 align:middle line:90% My fear is great. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.930 align:middle line:84% For years I confess, I was broke n petrified. 00:08:21.930 --> 00:08:23.040 align:middle line:90% I used to cry. 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.680 align:middle line:84% I believed all I was told, that my vows are 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.170 align:middle line:90% too curly for grand plots. 00:08:28.170 --> 00:08:30.630 align:middle line:84% That my consonants are too elongated for the shortness 00:08:30.630 --> 00:08:33.360 align:middle line:84% of my ideas, that I have no structure. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.730 align:middle line:84% My continuity's continuously lost 00:08:35.730 --> 00:08:37.799 align:middle line:84% to the phasm of another greay area. 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:40.780 align:middle line:84% That I pout too much pressure on the palatial area. 00:08:40.780 --> 00:08:44.159 align:middle line:84% Swells the speech era and makes the personal ways of my era 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.680 align:middle line:84% untenable, specifically un-shareable 00:08:46.680 --> 00:08:48.540 align:middle line:90% in any available form odor. 00:08:48.540 --> 00:08:51.690 align:middle line:84% Certainly quite useless for any sort of current activision 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:53.340 align:middle line:90% or cultural service. 00:08:53.340 --> 00:08:56.460 align:middle line:84% Thyngges change, no can tell a book by its cover. 00:08:56.460 --> 00:08:58.800 align:middle line:90% Just use me, said I. I can type. 00:08:58.800 --> 00:08:59.670 align:middle line:90% I'm online. 00:08:59.670 --> 00:09:00.330 align:middle line:90% I'm on it. 00:09:00.330 --> 00:09:07.530 align:middle line:90% 00:09:07.530 --> 00:09:10.920 align:middle line:84% Right on, reports what artist Nancy Spero. 00:09:10.920 --> 00:09:12.540 align:middle line:84% I've copied out reports, hung them 00:09:12.540 --> 00:09:15.930 align:middle line:84% on the gallery walls for all to see the terror and the torture. 00:09:15.930 --> 00:09:19.740 align:middle line:84% Sometimes copying, typing out, stamping, quoting, taking on, 00:09:19.740 --> 00:09:22.350 align:middle line:84% carrying one's body the burden of otheres pain-- 00:09:22.350 --> 00:09:24.540 align:middle line:84% otheres codex skin as one's work. 00:09:24.540 --> 00:09:27.060 align:middle line:84% Keeping each truth alive, reincorporated, 00:09:27.060 --> 00:09:30.480 align:middle line:84% testified, and loved in an age that chastises, isolates, 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.780 align:middle line:90% ridicules what it debases. 00:09:33.780 --> 00:09:35.850 align:middle line:84% Yeah, well, we kenow querelles with copyists, 00:09:35.850 --> 00:09:38.160 align:middle line:84% grumbles a voice at the back-- authentically clad, 00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:39.900 align:middle line:90% chosen for his language. 00:09:39.900 --> 00:09:42.090 align:middle line:84% They can hardly stick to the trewe of the line, 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:44.530 align:middle line:84% have to stick a hole in with their own. 00:09:44.530 --> 00:09:47.110 align:middle line:84% Nancy is a good pilot, quinces me, retorts Aly. 00:09:47.110 --> 00:09:49.900 align:middle line:84% Just like the rider who rides, ha moves me deeplie. 00:09:49.900 --> 00:09:52.360 align:middle line:84% Listen, I had a body, yet I was with the dead. 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.560 align:middle line:84% I have no roots, no legib language. 00:09:54.560 --> 00:09:56.950 align:middle line:84% On pouvait me faire mal à la lettre, to the letter. 00:09:56.950 --> 00:09:57.970 align:middle line:90% You won't kill. 00:09:57.970 --> 00:09:58.990 align:middle line:90% You'll be killed. 00:09:58.990 --> 00:09:59.830 align:middle line:90% You won't write. 00:09:59.830 --> 00:10:00.610 align:middle line:90% You won't touch. 00:10:00.610 --> 00:10:03.040 align:middle line:84% These are the laws of the foreigner, quod Cixous. 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:05.650 align:middle line:84% Then I sneezed, she writes, and something happened. 00:10:05.650 --> 00:10:07.570 align:middle line:90% I sneeze, and something began. 00:10:07.570 --> 00:10:10.570 align:middle line:84% I sneezed, I crossed my death with this life, wrote hey. 00:10:10.570 --> 00:10:13.530 align:middle line:90% 00:10:13.530 --> 00:10:17.175 align:middle line:84% OK, yes, where was-- oh, ja, let me begin the beguine continues 00:10:17.175 --> 00:10:17.790 align:middle line:90% Al-- 00:10:17.790 --> 00:10:21.870 align:middle line:84% your kiss-ability, love your ass, shaking that fear force, 00:10:21.870 --> 00:10:23.970 align:middle line:84% body talks gendre be damned, damned. 00:10:23.970 --> 00:10:26.280 align:middle line:84% Tongue and politics be dumbed down to the fight. 00:10:26.280 --> 00:10:28.110 align:middle line:90% Ye wet wool scratches badly. 00:10:28.110 --> 00:10:30.780 align:middle line:84% Too right, we've kept separate fronts for too long. 00:10:30.780 --> 00:10:33.150 align:middle line:84% Separate ponds, separate beds, separate ways, 00:10:33.150 --> 00:10:34.320 align:middle line:90% and battles of kinds. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.720 align:middle line:84% Together, not by kin, not by kind-- 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.730 align:middle line:90% all kings a drag anyhow. 00:10:38.730 --> 00:10:41.520 align:middle line:84% Operatively, takes time, takes aspiration. 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:43.800 align:middle line:84% Sending love out nis simpel matter. 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:46.110 align:middle line:84% Naming kept me stumm until I stepped off. 00:10:46.110 --> 00:10:48.600 align:middle line:84% One by one I peel the layers and give thanks. 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.150 align:middle line:84% Ne fetish love, ne totemic love-- 00:10:51.150 --> 00:10:53.340 align:middle line:84% I speak from the yoni in my Johnny. 00:10:53.340 --> 00:10:56.640 align:middle line:84% See, I'm gap-toothed-- I was, and that bicam me weel. 00:10:56.640 --> 00:10:58.080 align:middle line:84% The winds whistle through my lips 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.230 align:middle line:84% when I speak and tell the things even I have forgotten. 00:11:01.230 --> 00:11:03.780 align:middle line:90% 00:11:03.780 --> 00:11:06.450 align:middle line:84% Just let me tell you this, a trewe story. 00:11:06.450 --> 00:11:08.070 align:middle line:84% Last night, I was at an opening, and 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:10.630 align:middle line:84% this tall blonde, weel- heeled groomed white curator 00:11:10.630 --> 00:11:13.410 align:middle line:84% cum scholar cum ha was too white, and unsexed, 00:11:13.410 --> 00:11:17.070 align:middle line:84% heavily gendered though young, she was young, some and twenty. 00:11:17.070 --> 00:11:19.890 align:middle line:84% Now, I'm a local lasse, a good kisser, nat French-- 00:11:19.890 --> 00:11:22.920 align:middle line:84% but I can appreciate the clipped sounds of euro-English. 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:24.750 align:middle line:84% So anyway, she was sitting in front 00:11:24.750 --> 00:11:27.690 align:middle line:84% of us disheveled audience, well, I was dressed in my finery. 00:11:27.690 --> 00:11:29.760 align:middle line:84% All of us tranced out from the massive weather 00:11:29.760 --> 00:11:33.570 align:middle line:84% of our own springing, bucketing it outside, 00:11:33.570 --> 00:11:36.450 align:middle line:84% and the large screen that was pulsating behind her when 00:11:36.450 --> 00:11:38.850 align:middle line:90% she started pleading. 00:11:38.850 --> 00:11:42.040 align:middle line:84% Tell me, pled she, who's the new Eva for the new era? 00:11:42.040 --> 00:11:43.500 align:middle line:90% Tell me, she cride and pleyned. 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:45.810 align:middle line:84% Ha was insistent now, who will give pup? 00:11:45.810 --> 00:11:47.820 align:middle line:84% Who will be the new mama dies for us? 00:11:47.820 --> 00:11:49.620 align:middle line:90% Please, may I be me, sir, ma'am? 00:11:49.620 --> 00:11:51.210 align:middle line:90% May I be real, sir, ma'am? 00:11:51.210 --> 00:11:52.980 align:middle line:84% May I pull knowledge from my purse? 00:11:52.980 --> 00:11:54.030 align:middle line:90% May I speak out? 00:11:54.030 --> 00:11:56.100 align:middle line:84% Will you record it, transcribe it? 00:11:56.100 --> 00:11:57.750 align:middle line:90% May I make less evolution? 00:11:57.750 --> 00:12:00.780 align:middle line:84% May I make more blooming revolution? 00:12:00.780 --> 00:12:03.510 align:middle line:84% Ma Em mie wicked enemy of the kind kenew a thing 00:12:03.510 --> 00:12:05.700 align:middle line:90% or two about this kind of fing. 00:12:05.700 --> 00:12:08.550 align:middle line:84% Simone could speck too of the salt of privilege. 00:12:08.550 --> 00:12:11.010 align:middle line:90% Don't axe, said she, represent. 00:12:11.010 --> 00:12:12.180 align:middle line:90% Go disco, she said. 00:12:12.180 --> 00:12:13.830 align:middle line:90% Arise from superstition. 00:12:13.830 --> 00:12:16.090 align:middle line:84% Dance, dance, dance to the dis-arrangement. 00:12:16.090 --> 00:12:18.900 align:middle line:84% Come comrades, la transnationale. 00:12:18.900 --> 00:12:22.650 align:middle line:84% Eg jeg ik en jeu in play, jump ship mid-sentence and back. 00:12:22.650 --> 00:12:24.540 align:middle line:90% Take any fpigment with you. 00:12:24.540 --> 00:12:26.370 align:middle line:90% Food shifts it from a fruit. 00:12:26.370 --> 00:12:27.840 align:middle line:90% Horror hides the horror. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.670 align:middle line:84% It's like it says at the reception, 00:12:29.670 --> 00:12:32.130 align:middle line:84% push good door after 10 PM to open. 00:12:32.130 --> 00:12:36.180 align:middle line:90% Don't axe, slam bam, represent. 00:12:36.180 --> 00:12:39.210 align:middle line:84% I know this, continues Alyson, and bestest as I can, 00:12:39.210 --> 00:12:40.140 align:middle line:90% I transcribe. 00:12:40.140 --> 00:12:42.480 align:middle line:90% My sizeable, chuckles she he he. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.660 align:middle line:84% Dims have me taught a thing or two about glottic profusion. 00:12:45.660 --> 00:12:47.760 align:middle line:84% Now I'm not golden nor articulate. 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:49.920 align:middle line:84% I can't structure a full convolution. 00:12:49.920 --> 00:12:52.770 align:middle line:84% Can't respond to those who gravely salivate over 00:12:52.770 --> 00:12:54.360 align:middle line:90% asks saufely tucked away. 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.400 align:middle line:84% Don't let a single fold out their pleats. 00:12:56.400 --> 00:12:58.770 align:middle line:84% Don't bleed out of their dipping figs and coilles, 00:12:58.770 --> 00:13:01.080 align:middle line:84% what want collective action come ready- done. 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.780 align:middle line:84% What personal corset not corage and cataloged 00:13:03.780 --> 00:13:06.920 align:middle line:84% wait for an istic turn before stirrups art to be sold, 00:13:06.920 --> 00:13:07.860 align:middle line:90% nat soul food. 00:13:07.860 --> 00:13:09.690 align:middle line:84% Action to schlock, nat transform. 00:13:09.690 --> 00:13:11.490 align:middle line:84% Keeping the market canned, reminding 00:13:11.490 --> 00:13:12.960 align:middle line:90% oo it's a good deal for some. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.780 align:middle line:84% But neither art nor poetry change one bleeding f act. 00:13:15.780 --> 00:13:18.090 align:middle line:84% Nouther in the nude, nouther disemboweled, 00:13:18.090 --> 00:13:19.290 align:middle line:90% nouther in the street-- 00:13:19.290 --> 00:13:22.560 align:middle line:84% like hey, say, pump up the V. Nat believe the tag. 00:13:22.560 --> 00:13:25.380 align:middle line:84% Mind's opulent, hystoricise way beyond a temp. 00:13:25.380 --> 00:13:26.190 align:middle line:90% Oh, sis. 00:13:26.190 --> 00:13:27.090 align:middle line:90% Sis, sis. 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:28.230 align:middle line:90% Sis, sis, bro. 00:13:28.230 --> 00:13:29.400 align:middle line:90% Sis, bro, bro. 00:13:29.400 --> 00:13:31.830 align:middle line:84% Bro, sis, bro-- too much jouissance, nat enough 00:13:31.830 --> 00:13:35.130 align:middle line:84% pleasure, too many deals, nat enough daring, too much linguo, 00:13:35.130 --> 00:13:35.970 align:middle line:90% nat enough tongue. 00:13:35.970 --> 00:13:38.880 align:middle line:90% 00:13:38.880 --> 00:13:40.365 align:middle line:84% At this, the small press publisher, 00:13:40.365 --> 00:13:43.020 align:middle line:84% a speaker in their own right, geeky, resentful geezer 00:13:43.020 --> 00:13:45.600 align:middle line:84% at the best of times, has had it with this and interrupts. 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.850 align:middle line:84% Hey, Missy, turn it down a notch will you? 00:13:47.850 --> 00:13:49.440 align:middle line:90% I've had it with this. 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.720 align:middle line:84% People like you have been mouthing off for centuries, 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:52.920 align:middle line:90% get to the point. 00:13:52.920 --> 00:13:54.240 align:middle line:90% Your kind is crude. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.060 align:middle line:84% Lips smacked, babbling away, rubbing words between you, 00:13:57.060 --> 00:13:58.950 align:middle line:84% loosening divine with [Salima's saliva, 00:13:58.950 --> 00:14:00.760 align:middle line:84% and God knows, anya else's breath. 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:02.460 align:middle line:90% It's just how it's always been. 00:14:02.460 --> 00:14:05.760 align:middle line:84% Women poets just don't cut it for public sphere. 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:08.700 align:middle line:84% Undeterred, Alyson continues, and I transcribe. 00:14:08.700 --> 00:14:11.700 align:middle line:84% Abyde, quod she, all good kings in drag. 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:17.220 align:middle line:84% The ear of my tellings nat bygone, just bigonne. 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:18.105 align:middle line:90% Woo. 00:14:18.105 --> 00:14:20.580 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:30.500 align:middle line:90% 00:14:30.500 --> 00:14:32.020 align:middle line:90% Thank you.