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I'll read a little
bit of my bootlegged

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copy of Say Translation is Art.

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I bootleg myself at the
same time as my publisher

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because they wanted
to make extra copies

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and I said I was
wanting to do that too.

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So we mutually
bootlegged the same book.

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And I'm going to read
a middle section.

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Say vomit.

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Say gagging.

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Say choking translation.

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Say I spent the
entire summer of 2020

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with low grade fever
and endless nausea.

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Say this vomit inducing
country translation.

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Say my younger body
drinking alcohol.

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Body rejecting even a
small amount by vomiting.

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They say women have
trouble saying no.

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I envied my body's clarity
in vomit translation.

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Say race and racism
quiet translation of.

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Say in Asia I learned to better
understand it, to talk freely.

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Say in 2017 I returned
to where I'm from

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and learn a new how to speak.

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How not to say the wrong
thing to the wrong person

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at the wrong time.

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Say translating myself
into silence, into poetry.

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Say a book full of translated
vomit, gagging, choking.

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Say in the before of
translation is silence.

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Say in the after of
translation is silence.

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Say fuck the police translation.

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Say Public Enemy translation.

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Say Tribe Called
Quest translation.

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Say Blackalicious translation.

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Say TLC's No Scrubs
written on an old envelope

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in the car translation.

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Say "Jok'Air!

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On va turn up toute
la nuit" translation.

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Say defund the
police translation.

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Say divesting from
racist brutality

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and investing in social
services translation.

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Say priorities, preferences,
customs, inclinations,

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values of importance
and investment

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can shift because they need not
stay the same in translation.

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Say just because it is common
and normal to translate

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and prioritize the sense
and meaning of a poem

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at the cost of goods
sound and music,

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or to translate this
poem and that poem

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but not the book in its
entirety translation.

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Say micro translation.

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Say for example translate
only one component of a poem.

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Translate only the syntax.

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Translate the syntax
in its entirety.

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Say translate the entire
sonic landscape of the poem.

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Say translate the
spirit, the kinetics,

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the ghost that haunts it.

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Say leaf behind, leaf
out, alter the sense.

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Say no they would never do that.

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Would I do that?

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Say I would do that.

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Say do that to me.

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Do that to me.

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Say the more time I spend
writing and translating

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and making art, the more they
all blend into each other.

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Say the more time I spend being
human and knowing and caring

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about other humans, the more
the conventional structures

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of human relationships
blend and regroup

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and reinvent those structures.

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Say new structures of language
articulated via the LGBTQIA+

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community opening the door to
new formulations for structures

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of literature.

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Say translation is opportunity.

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Say I'm sick of too
many conversations

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about source and target,
author and translator,

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foreignizing and domesticating.

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Say non-binary stances
toward translation

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sitting with and
alongside both extremes.

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Say on one end the
magic of translation

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allows me to read the work of
Alejandra Pizarnik and Ursula

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Andkjaer Olsen and Dorothy Tse.

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And then say on the other
end, the ambitious comparative

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literature student reading
in 2, 3, 4 languages

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because if one is
to read seriously,

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one must read it
in the original.

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Say all of it
together alongside.

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Say two-legged human being,
female, lesbian, musician,

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composer among other things
translation, Pauline Oliveros.

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Say what you can
do to help if you'd

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like is to call your families,
your bosses, your landlords,

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your friends, everyone
you know and come out

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of the closet as
queer translation.

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CAConrad and Harvey Milk.

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Say overcoming heteronormativity
naturalized desires

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by learning to recognize
all naturalized desires,

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such as the desire for a certain
kind of beauty in translation.

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Say desire wears the
mask of naturalization.

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Say translation is a process of
denaturalization, which also is

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a means of decolonizing desire.

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Say suspicion in
all that appears

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to be natural translation, all
that appears to be compulsorily

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able-bodied translation.

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Joyelle McSweeney,
Johannes Göransson.

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Say I translate with my body.

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Say my body is not
the same as your body.

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Kate Briggs.

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In fact, say my body
produces bags of shit.

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One heat seeking bag of shit
and another heat seeking

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bag of shit translation.

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Translation into and out
of continuous inferno.

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Translatable bags of shit
because we cannot scream,

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we translate.

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Daniel Borzutzky.

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Say translation as a means
of denaturalizing desire

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in language as rehearsal for
denaturalizing, decolonizing,

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and overall flat out liberating
desire in real actual,

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lived life hurray.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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