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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.77,0:00:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello loved ones!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.16,0:00:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to week 8 \Nof Audre Lorde Resurrection Sundays.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.83,0:00:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Sister Doctor Lex.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.36,0:00:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm especially excited today because I am \Ngetting ready to go to Cuba very soon,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.59,0:00:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am thinking so much about Audre Lorde,\Nwho went to Cuba in January also, in 1985,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.30,0:00:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with a lot of other brilliant Black women writers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.60,0:00:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Alexis DeVeaux and Jayne Cortez,\Nand Mari Evans, and so many more.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.80,0:00:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I am excited about this video because \NI'm getting my energy up for that trip,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.60,0:01:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really excited to participate \Nin a cultural exchange,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.34,0:01:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm able to go with a delegation of \Namazing people of colour who I love,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.33,0:01:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who I'm doing work with here in the united states,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.41,0:01:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm very excited about how what we learn in Cuba \Nwill influence the work we do together.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.61,0:01:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this week I'm sharing with you \Nthe poem "Diapora".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.93,0:01:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we know of, and, um, \Nbiographer Alexis DeVeaux also said
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.73,0:01:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't know of a place where Audre Lorde \Nwrote publicly about her experience in Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.58,0:01:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this poem "Diapora" is about \Nher transnational work more generally,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.79,0:01:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how she thought about the experiences \Nof people all over the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.88,0:01:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including folks in Lebanon, \Nincluding people in South Africa...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.62,0:01:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that as I think about what it will mean \Nto engage with other Black folks in Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.19,0:01:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to have these words in mind. \NSo this is "Diaspora".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.95,0:02:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Afraid is a country with no exit visas{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.91,0:02:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}a wire of ants walking the horizon{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.50,0:02:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}embroiders our passports at birth{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.87,0:02:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Johannesburg Alabama{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.15,0:02:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}a dark girl flees the cattle prods{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.52,0:02:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}skin hanging from her shredded nails{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.31,0:02:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}escapes into my nightmare{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.43,0:02:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}half an hour before the Shatila dawn{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.24,0:02:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}wakes in the well of a borrowed Volkswagen{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.54,0:02:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}or a rickety midnight sleeper \Nout of White River Junction{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.60,0:02:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Washington bound again{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.52,0:02:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}gulps carbon monoxide in a false bottomed truck{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.38,0:02:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}fording the Braceras Grande{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.61,0:02:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}or an up-country river{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.99,0:02:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}grenades held in a dry calabash{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.88,0:02:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}leaving{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.45,0:02:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for me that poem has to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.95,0:02:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is at stake for people of colour to be \Nin solidarity with each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.86,0:03:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of that means in terms of \Nthe conflicts that exist all around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.88,0:03:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially the economic violence that is part \Nof systems of domination and globalization,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.77,0:03:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people of colour face differently\Nin different places.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.66,0:03:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm excited! Sometime soon, a chapter that I wrote about Audre Lorde's theories of solidarity,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.90,0:03:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in relationship to majority Black \Nspaces and nations in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.22,0:03:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, will be coming out in a book that's about \NAudre Lorde's transnational impact.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.85,0:03:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So of course if you are following the \NSchool of Our Lorde blog
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.20,0:03:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will know when you will have access to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.40,0:03:49.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And! I also wanted to make a somewhat self-serving \Nassignment to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.35,0:03:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to thinking about your impact \Non people of colour
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.42,0:03:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other countries than the country \Nthat you may be situated in right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.31,0:04:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would love it if you could make a donation \Nto Witness For Peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.98,0:04:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm so grateful to that organization for sponsoring this people of colour specific delegation to Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.18,0:04:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have information on the \NSchool of Our Lorde site
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.99,0:04:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also on the Doctor Alexis Pauline Gumbs site
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.64,0:04:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how you can make a donation to that project.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.25,0:04:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I strongly hope that you will,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.89,0:04:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to support not just our trip
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.47,0:04:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the practice, the continued practice
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.78,0:04:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people of colour delegations to be able to exchange in a particular specific and nuanced way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.94,0:04:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.84,0:04:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much for listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.64,0:04:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.51,0:04:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy Resurrection Sunday.