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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.96,0:00:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello, loved ones!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.96,0:00:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's me, Sister Doctor Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.86,0:00:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and today is 21 years from the day
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.86,0:00:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the great poet warrior mother black lesbian icon\NAudre Lorde transitioned to become an ancestor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.78,0:00:33.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to honour Audre Lorde
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.91,0:00:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fact that she is eternally with us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.80,0:00:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the 1st edition of a 21 week series
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.43,0:00:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called Resurrection Sunday.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.98,0:00:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bringing us from Audre Lorde's death date, \Nback around through her re-birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.95,0:00:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are going to bring Audre Lorde's work
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.80,0:00:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,robustly into our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.31,0:01:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through an examination of her poetry on survival.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.33,0:01:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel especially excited about survival today,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.54,0:01:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I just completed a full circle doula training
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.66,0:01:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the International Centre \Nfor Traditional Childbirth...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.29,0:01:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yaaaaaaay!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.78,0:01:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm so excited to support us all in birthing the next warrior poet geniuses onto the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.95,0:01:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and welcoming them with love.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.97,0:01:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, today we're gonna hear Audre Lorde's most famous poem on survival, A Litany For Survival.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.10,0:01:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}"A Litany For Survival{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.97,0:01:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}For those of us who live at the shoreline,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.47,0:02:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}standing upon the constant edges of decision\Ncrucial and alone,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.10,0:02:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}for those of us who cannot indulge\Nthe passing dreams of choice,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.47,0:02:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}who love in doorways coming and going\Nin the hours between dawns,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.03,0:02:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}looking inward and outward{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.50,0:02:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}at once before and after,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.33,0:02:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}seeking a now that can breed futures{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.60,0:02:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}like bread in our children's mouths,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.06,0:02:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}so their dreams will not reflect\Nthe death of ours:{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.15,0:02:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}For those of us\Nwho were imprinted with fear{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.36,0:02:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}like a faint line in the center of our foreheads,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.06,0:02:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}learning to be afraid with our mother's milk,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.25,0:02:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}for by this weapon,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.16,0:02:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}this illusion of some safety to be found,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.49,0:02:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}the heavy-footed hoped to silence us.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.35,0:02:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}For all of us,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.09,0:02:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}this instant and this triumph{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.89,0:03:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}we were never meant to survive.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.83,0:03:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}And when the sun rises \Nwe are afraid it might not remain,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.75,0:03:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}when the sun sets we are afraid\Nit might not rise in the morning,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.42,0:03:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}when our stomachs are full we are afraid \Nof indigestion,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.85,0:03:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}when our stomachs are empty we are afraid\Nwe may never eat again,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.92,0:03:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}when we are loved we are afraid\Nlove will vanish,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.31,0:03:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}when we are alone we are afraid\Nlove will never return,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.38,0:03:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and when we speak we are afraid\Nour words will not be heard{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.96,0:03:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}nor welcomed.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.12,0:03:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}But when we are silent\Nwe are still afraid,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.09,0:04:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}so it is better to speak,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.83,0:04:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}remembering{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.95,0:04:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}we were never meant to survive."{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.77,0:04:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Audre Lorde famously wrote \Nin the Cancer Journals
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.57,0:04:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if she did not speak her truth \Nevery time she was afraid,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.93,0:04:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she would be trying to speak her realness \Nfrom a ouija board from the beyond.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.37,0:04:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She really encouraged us to speak our truth \Ndespite our fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.37,0:04:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I think about A Litany For Survival {\i1}today{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.82,0:04:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after being immersed in a beautiful, \NAfrican centred context
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.44,0:04:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what it means to support the practice of birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.69,0:04:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it means to support the breakthrough,\Nof allowing life to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.47,0:04:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think about what we want to give birth to,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.50,0:04:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are now ready to claim, and push past our fear to achieve and bring into the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.09,0:04:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I want to invite you to journal about that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.94,0:05:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to write about that, to name that and claim that:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.08,0:05:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that you are birthing into the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.53,0:05:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You -never meant to survive- that is already a triumph because {\i1}you{\i0} can imagine it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.26,0:05:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would love it, love it, love it even more
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.05,0:05:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you cuold share in the comments \Nthat which you are birthing into the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.09,0:05:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so everyone can see.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.77,0:05:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, if you want, I'll be making an oracle this week from A Litany For Survival,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.56,0:05:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can check out the School of Our Lorde website at the link below
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.46,0:05:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find out how you can get a custom email,\Npoem, blessing, one on one conversation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.52,0:05:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blessing, oracle, poem from Audre Lorde \Nfor that project, that adventure, that reality
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.85,0:05:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are ready to birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.04,0:05:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So excited to doula you into your dreams!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.41,0:05:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hope to hear from you soon,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.29,0:05:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy Resurrection Sunday.