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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY
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EMERGENCE
CYNTHIA MACADAMS
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I remember�it was a very important period
in my creative life.
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I really fought to hold my ground
at that time.
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I felt, which might have been a delusion,
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but I felt that I needed to fight
to be who I was.
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I like the way I look here.
I like my hair.
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As I look at this...
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it brings back
the enormous energy of those days...
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and the go-for-broke sense of them.
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How did she convince all these women
to take their clothes off?
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I think it was the times.
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We always said the personal is political.
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The rise of the women's movement
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was just part of
that kind of personification
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of "we're taking our power."
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The second-wave era of feminism...
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we had an opening in history
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and we all, like Nora
in Ibsen's Doll House,
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we all left the house at the same moment.
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STEVEN KASHER GALLERY
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Come on, girl.
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CYNTHIA MACADAMS
FEMINIST PORTRAITS, 1974-1977
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Oh, it looks very beautiful.
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All these...
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beautiful women standing up.
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In the mid-'70s,
photographer Cynthia MacAdams
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asked if she could take a picture of me
for her book.
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She said she thought
women looked different because of feminism
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and she wanted to see�if that difference
showed up in photographs.
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She started with the women she knew,
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artists, writers, activists,
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and gradually went to the streets
of New York and L.A.,
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and she found something more complex
than political fervor,
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more basic than sexual identity.
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She captured these women at a moment
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when they felt the freedom
to be who they are.
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These women represent
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this one hour when women
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-took responsibility for themselves.
-That's right.
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And it's really personal.
It's really personal.
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It's very personal.
We had all this consciousness raising
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where women sit around and find themselves
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and express themselves,
and they were not afraid.
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Did you ask them to pose
in any particular way?
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No. I just wanted to get as much...
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clarity as possible.
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I just wanted them to be
in their innermost self, their core.
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Forty years later,
we meet some of the women again
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and we look at the culture then and now.
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But as the women look back at us,
their eyes remind us
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that the challenge is still there.
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Whenever I look at a picture of myself,
I never look how I thought I looked.
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But this picture looks more like myself
than most do.
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Except for the skirt.
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It's interesting, this shot here, um...
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because I didn't like it
of all the photographs.
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It was a hard time.
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I was working in my studio
and just trying to stay in the moment.
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I always made a dark room where I lived
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because I think as a mother
I had to be there.
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Not that I was that great of a mother,
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don't get me wrong...
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...you know?
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I, uh...
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But I...
That was something that I had to do
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and my oldest children
were at that point--
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were getting into their teens
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and it was really hard.
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But now I love that picture...
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because I, you know, I look
a little beaten up
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but I kinda like it,
because I was beautiful
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and beauty was a commodity.
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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
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♪ We're just two little girls
From Little Rock�♪
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When I was 14 I was an usherette at
a theater in Detroit, the Avalon.
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We were watching a movie one night
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and it was Marilyn Monroe
and Jane Russell.
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♪ Men grow cold
As girls grow old�♪
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A middle-aged couple were leaving
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and the wife was way ahead
of the husband and she kept...
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"Come on. Let's go."
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You know? And he's dragging behind
'cause they're singing and jiggling
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and he just kept lagging back
watching the screen and she said,
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"Oh, come on,
they don't have any talent anyway."
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And he said, "They don't need any."
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And that was epiphanous for me.
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Jane and I wrote about it
and she expressed it this way,
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she said, "I felt the embryonic, uh...
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kicking of feminism,
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uh, even though I didn't know
I was pregnant."
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When I became pregnant
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and I was teaching a full college load
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and had published two books
and was finishing a third...
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I asked to teach
at a slightly different hour
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because I saw when I was getting sleepy,
and the dean at my university...
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he said to me, "Well, look,
you have to make up your mind.
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You wanna be a professor or a mother?"
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I said, "Are you kidding me?"
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Hah! That was an "Aha" moment.
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God, was I young.
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When I was in college
I was a philosophy minor
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and I took all these classes and I would
raise my hand to ask a question
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and the male professors
wouldn't call on me.
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And, you know,
then they'd call on these guys.
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I'm like, "They're not calling on me
because I'm a girl."
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I knew that
but it was impossible to talk about.
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If I tried to raise it,�people would say,
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"What are you, some kind of suffragette?"
And of course, the image of suffragettes
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were these old dowdy ladies, you know,
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who'd made all this trouble.
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So, no, of course I didn't wanna
be identified as a suffragette,
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just like these young women
don't wanna be identified as a feminist.
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-They look free. You wanna be like them.
-Yeah, that's the thing.
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It's contagious. It makes you wanna...
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do you.
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I always feel like when someone�asks me
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if I'm a feminist
that it's a trick question.
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Just amongst my friends,
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we don't use the word "feminism"
that much.
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We tend to be a lot more specific.
You know, like,
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"We are fighting for gender equality"
or "We're fighting for equal pay"
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or "We're fighting
to get more women on-screen."
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But we don't necessarily
throw around the word "feminist."
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In fact, of my friends,
the only ones who are openly feminist
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and use that word are men,
because it makes them look really cool.
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I remember walking into a FedEx
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and I was being helped by a man who was...
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just there to help the customers
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and we got into a conversation somehow
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about gender issues. Somehow.
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And he asked me if I identified
as a feminist, and I said yes.
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And he just looked at me
like I was a green monster.
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Like I had then just affirmed
that I hated him.
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He was repulsed.
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Repulsed.
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My body, my choice!
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THIS PUSSY GRABS BACK
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FEMINISM:
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
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Equal rights. Equal rights to have a job,
to have respect,
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to not be viewed as a piece of meat.
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I've never seen any definition
which refers to women
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when you become the eunuch.
It's always a man who's castrated.
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It's impossible to castrate a woman,
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at least as far as the definition
is concerned in the dictionary.
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It's only impossible
to castrate a woman because...
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...it's assumed that she has no sex.
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I mean, I didn't castrate women,
Freud did.
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Every time you talk
about an issue of feminism,
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you somehow have to have someone
that's saying
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women are not human beings
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or wanting to be a human being
is not ladylike.
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Why do we smile so much?
Why do we try to be so appealing?
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Why are we so afraid to show our anger?
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Why is anger considered not feminine?
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For better or worse there is not
a situation in one's daily life
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that does not have feminist subtext,
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um, superstructure implications,
and one is constantly aware
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that even when you want to rest
it stands up�and hits you in the face.
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WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE!
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This is a whole class of people oppressed
for just millennium, suddenly,
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you know, like, breathing air
and drinking in the light.
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Any kind of change,
I mean, any healthy country,
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like any healthy individual,
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should be in perpetual revolution,
perpetual change.
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I was born resilient.
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I was solitary a lot
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but I was never lonely.
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I had a lot of imagination...
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and there were a lot of oak trees
on our property
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and I would climb to the top...
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and I could see myself leading an army
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up the side of the hill like Joan of Arc.
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That was one of my images of myself.
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Or I was the Lone Ranger,
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the masked bandit
who would come and save people.
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Sometimes I wanted to be Tonto too,
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but always active and masculine.
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This is the world of busy girls.
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The world of Suzy Homemaker.
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For me...
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being a girl, being a woman,
was the end.
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If you wanted to live and you wanted
to have power and you wanted to succeed,
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you were a boy.
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I really wanted an electric train set
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very badly...
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...and my father
didn't get them for me and I...
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Thinking back,
maybe it was because I was a girl.
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I remember inviting a boy from my class,
Billy Young, to my house
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and my mother said,
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"You have to let him win
all the games that you play...
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because girls don't win."
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And I remember thinking,
"That is really strange
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and I don't think it's fair at all
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and I'm not going to follow that at all."
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Most girls, we're feisty
when we're young,
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man, before puberty sets in.
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And it's when the specter of womanhood
begins to loom on the horizon...
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you have to stuff anger...
you know, you have to be a good girl.
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Well, all your life, you know,
people are saying, "Be a good girl."
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Well, that implies that you're not...
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naturally good.
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It's really nice.
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There really is a power to being...
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female. I mean, it's...
I don't know how to explain it but...
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you can see it in these images.
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It's really kind of magical.
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Fourteen for some reason was an age
that just everything...
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Everything shifted.
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I was constantly uncomfortable and sort of
aware of what other people thought of me
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and, of course, that meant, like, boys.
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All of the insecurities
in the world happened.
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In some sense, before...
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that time I was more of
a protagonist in my life.
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It's like your role as a girl is to,
like, watch boys do stuff.
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Suddenly you become aware
that you're living
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sort of from the perspective of a male
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and reclaiming that I think is like...
really hard.
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I was raised
in a politically active, left-wing,
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secular Jewish household.
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My parents believed
in equal rights for women.
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For a woman of my generation
I had a very unusual experience,
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which was I was really fathered.
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My father adored me, he encouraged me,
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he taught me, he played games with me,
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he trained me in logic and in values...
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and he taught me
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that I could trust a man.
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My father was a labor organizer.
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He worked at the post office
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but his passion was change,
making it a better world.
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And he was a victim of McCarthy
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which was, of course, in the '50s.
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The FBI visited my house
when I was six years old.
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My father was hounded out of his work...
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fired from the post office
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and hounded out of the labor union.
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And he went through a slow...
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physical and emotional decline.
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He died when I was 13.
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Here I was faced with the fact that
the world was telling me
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my father was a terrible person...
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but that was not my experience.
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My experience was of my father
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as a wonderful person.
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And at 13 I had to make a choice
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between whether I would believe
what the world said
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or whether I would believe
my own experience.
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I come from a military family
and we traveled with my father.
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My first memories...
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are of the hospital in Japan
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where I had pneumonia.
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They would take us for a walk...
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all the kids, down this big corridor...
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and at the end of the corridor
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were people left from the bombing,
the atomic bomb...
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getting treatment.
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I still remember those people...
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and that colored my whole life.
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I never could understand
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how people could blow each other up.
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Down with the tyrant!
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Down with his exaggerated thunder!
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You want to talk psychosis?
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Down with the tyrant!
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Daggers, hysterical puritans,
starved animals.
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You want to, you want to,
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You want to talk?
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You want to write?
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This is the writing dance
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For all to see...
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The whole picture of the decimated site
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The picture of charnel ground.
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And the jackals came.
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And the jackals came.
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One very strong epiphany moment
was in grade�school.
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Clutching your dog tag,�hiding
under your desk, hands over your head
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with these, you know, sirens going,
there was some tremendous fear
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but also an idea. "This does not
make sense. What is this about?"
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War I associated with men.
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I often feel that was the point
where I went to poetry.
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Oh, yeah. Conceptual artist.
What does that mean, conceptual artist?
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♪ O Superman ♪
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"O SUPERMAN" (1981)
LAURIE ANDERSON
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♪ O judge�♪
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♪ O Mom and Dad
Mom and Dad�♪
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I aspired to be non-aggressive.
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I'm sure that I'm aggressive
in some situations
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but I aspire to non-aggression.
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There is something very, um...
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essentially and really deeply
non-aggressive about women.
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If you look around and see, um...
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who's picking up the guns,
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for the most part it's not us.
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We're not running in the street and...
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In my own experience
and in my own life,
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women tend to be the peacemakers...
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the ones who are going,
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"You guys, you brothers,
don't kill each other, okay?
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Don't kill each other." You know?
They have to like maintain some stuff
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at the very basic family level.
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From that to other models of, um...
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peacekeeping, I think you can, uh,
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uh, big statement, look to women
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to be the ones
who are very skilled at that.
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Very, very skilled at understanding...
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uh, networks and how things work,
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seeing things as not a big storyline
with a big, you know, narrative arc,
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but as a fabric that is
bound together and is...
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You can't do anything without it
affecting something else.
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I was born and raised in Barbados.
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I wasn't from a city,
I was from a small village
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so I'm a village girl.
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And I think that really has had
a big impact in my life
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and how I see the world.
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There was an elder who lived across
the way from us...
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and before we could eat,
my mother would say to my sister and I,
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"You go take this food for Ms. Rice."
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And we would say, "But, Mummy...
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We're hungry, Mummy.
Why can't we eat and take the food?"
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She would say, "No. Before you eat,
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you take the food over to her."
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And we kind of grumbled a bit
and then we did it.
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And then when I was a lot older I realized
the lesson that she was really teaching us
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in terms of
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looking out for others
even though we had very little,
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of sharing what little we had.
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Immigrating from that village
to Brooklyn was like
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one of the most traumatic experiences
in my life.
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We were living with my aunt
who was a member of Brooklyn CORE,
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Congress of Racial Equality,
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and immediately, I think about two weeks
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after arriving from Barbados,
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we were out on the picket lines
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because there was
a huge civil disobedience
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where black people
were protesting the fact
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that they were building
a medical center in Brooklyn,
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the Downstate Medical Center,
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and they weren't hiring black people.
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We would take a little paper bag lunch...
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and we would stand there
and block the cement trucks.
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And that's how we'd spend
our summers, so this...
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was my introduction from my village
to the United States.
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My mother was a witch,
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my father was an atheist...
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and from these two sources,
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my father was the one who recognized me.
348
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When I was three months old already,
I was not yet christened,
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and on my mother's side my grandma
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and mother's older sister
wanted to do that
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because that was like
a Catholic thing to do,
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and Father said, "No, no, don't...
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don't do that. When she grows up
she finds her own religion."
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So my father had the sense about me
that I will find my own religion,
355
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and you know where I found it?
Right here in L.A.
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The balmy weather�and the wonderful smells
that the air got from
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blooming flowers, the jasmines
and the orange trees,
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and the Goddess is very, very
feelable and visible.
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I didn't have a coven anywhere else
but here...
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and this is where it became an activism,
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it became a spiritual, political activism
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and, to me, they were the same.
363
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I felt that the oppression of women
is rooted in religion.
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From childhood, little boys think
that they're going to grow up to be God,
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and this is consciousness raising.
We say,
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"Hey Church, if you really, really think
of all human beings,
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you better start changing that image of...
368
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You see that thing?
"And God created woman in her own image."
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Cynthia wanted me
to be the Reverend Sally Kirkland,
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um, and she said to me
that she was just gonna do my torso...
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and, there I am.
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Thinner than I am now.
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My mom, Sally Kirkland, Senior,
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she was the first person to hire
an African American at LIFE magazine,
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Gordon Parks, the photographer
and then filmmaker.
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And Henry Luce was very upset
and came to my mother and said,
377
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"We can't do this. He's a negro."
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And my mother said,
"If you don't hire him, I quit."
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My mother was extremely independent.
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It was hard not to inherit a feeling
that I deserved equality,
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that I deserved to be paid the same as men
and to have the same opportunities
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as an actor, as a painter.
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I became a yoga teacher at a time
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where there were only men teaching.
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You know, so she taught me
how to just go for what I wanted
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and not take no for an answer.
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I was being photographed somewhere...
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outside Boulder, Colorado.
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So I was
a slightly misplaced New Yorker...
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in this photograph.
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I quickly saw
that I had a certain...
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You know,
I became the head of the Poetry Project,
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founded this school...
You know, the Kerouac school.
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Allen couldn't be there full time,
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somebody had to, you know,
really mind the store and take charge.
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I just took charge.
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I think I was able to hold my own...
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with Allen, with Burroughs.
It was, you know, not easy at first.
399
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I wasn't intimidated.
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At some point I felt
I had to correct Allen.
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I mean, I had to... You know,
he would say "girls" instead of "women."
402
00:25:20,728 --> 00:25:21,729
I mean...
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I don't know where this, you know,
came from exactly
404
00:25:24,565 --> 00:25:26,233
but my mother was a real force.
405
00:25:26,734 --> 00:25:31,697
She had a real vision
for what it was to be a female artist
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and a fully liberated person in the world.
407
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,578
One letter she's saying to me,
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"Men can put love aside
and get on with their work,
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they can be more compartmentalized.
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Don't just fall into this fallacy
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about falling�in love
and giving it all up for love."
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She was very afraid.
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And this was in my last year of college
she was writing me these kinds of letters.
414
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I had to please her.
I had to do the work that she couldn't do.
415
00:25:58,348 --> 00:25:59,725
I had a mother who was...
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incred...
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Well, at least her discourse
was like very, very feminist.
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Something that she said my whole life was,
"Les femmes ont le pouvoir,"
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which means "Women have the power."
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00:26:10,944 --> 00:26:14,364
She really raised my sister and I
to believe that, to live that.
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She would even, like, discourage my sister
from having boyfriends for too long.
422
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It was like, "You need to go have fun,
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uh, and be free
and not be tied down to men."
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But at the same time, you know,
she did grow up in France
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so she did have these
pretty conservative ideas
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of, like, what women should be.
427
00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:34,134
The more my mother would tell me�to be
feminine and quiet and not funny or loud,
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00:26:34,218 --> 00:26:36,762
the louder I would get
and the more irreverent I would get.
429
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,935
I remember wanting to...
fit in with the group.
430
00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:47,689
And one day, one of the little girls...
431
00:26:48,190 --> 00:26:49,191
tells me...
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Mind you,
this is a little fifth grade girl,
433
00:26:51,693 --> 00:26:55,405
"I just wanted to let you know that
you can hang out with us
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if you lose a little bit of weight."
435
00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:01,036
I remember...
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00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:04,957
kind of feeling, like, resistance to that
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00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,209
but feeling like, "Okay...
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00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:10,379
If that's what I need to do to fit in."
439
00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:14,049
But I knew that it wasn't about my size.
440
00:27:15,384 --> 00:27:17,594
I remember I went home and I told my mom
441
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:21,265
and I asked her about ways
in which I could potentially lose weight
442
00:27:21,348 --> 00:27:24,184
and my mom told me, essentially,
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00:27:24,268 --> 00:27:28,063
"Anybody that does not see
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how phenomenal and beautiful you are
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and that does not value
the fullness of you as you are,
446
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essentially does not deserve
to share space and time with you.
447
00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:41,451
And that instilled
a dignity in me early on...
448
00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:46,290
and it helped me navigate the world
as a black woman.
449
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WHITE SILENCE = VIOLENCE
450
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-This is my mom. Yeah.
451
00:27:59,887 --> 00:28:01,972
What is it like being here
with your daughter?
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00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:03,599
Well, it's really great
453
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:06,768
because I was here in 1993 with my mother
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00:28:06,852 --> 00:28:08,395
and that's when I wore this button.
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00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:11,815
She's no longer here
but we're representing her
456
00:28:11,899 --> 00:28:14,109
and it's just really, really nice,
457
00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:17,779
um, to be here with my daughter
but it's very sad at the same.
458
00:28:17,863 --> 00:28:22,951
I'm just ashamed that I've lived through
not being able to pass the ERA,
459
00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:26,163
I now have lived through not being able to
get a woman president
460
00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:30,542
and, um, it just... I cry a lot still.
461
00:28:30,626 --> 00:28:32,628
I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE STILL
PROTESTING THIS SHIT.
462
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,464
It's like, "Come on. It's 2017."
463
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:36,757
-I'm done.
464
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,218
-I wanna be done fighting but you can't.
-Yeah.
465
00:28:40,761 --> 00:28:42,638
-Thank you.
-Thank you, sweetie.
466
00:28:46,934 --> 00:28:51,355
WHY STUDY HOME ECONOMICS
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If I'm gonna be a homemaker
the rest of my life,
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00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:55,484
I wanna know what I'm doing.
469
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,526
So do I.
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00:28:56,610 --> 00:29:00,280
What can they teach you in home ec class
that you can't learn right here at home
471
00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:02,157
or pick up after you get married?
472
00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:06,078
We had to bring a demonstration
into homemaking.
473
00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:09,915
Because I had a brother
who was 15 years younger...
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00:29:10,499 --> 00:29:14,211
I brought in a demonstration
of how to diaper a baby,
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00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:15,712
and I got an A.
476
00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:19,633
One of the things
they taught us in home ec
477
00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:20,926
was how to cook.
478
00:29:21,385 --> 00:29:22,552
I got an A in that.
479
00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:26,974
And they also taught us
how to wash dishes.
480
00:29:27,808 --> 00:29:31,645
They gave us a chart:
what to do first and what to do last.
481
00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:35,357
It was home ec. We had to take it.
All the girls had to take it.
482
00:29:40,988 --> 00:29:43,991
I just had to see what pictures of me
are in this book.
483
00:29:45,242 --> 00:29:48,870
Aw, look. I love this picture
of me and Aloma.
484
00:29:51,081 --> 00:29:51,999
And here I am...
485
00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:56,420
on... my 1970 Mercedes...
486
00:29:57,462 --> 00:29:58,797
which I still have.
487
00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:05,762
I was thrown out of high school
488
00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:09,433
for forging absentee slips...
489
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:11,476
and I never went back.
490
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:13,770
That summer I went to San Francisco...
491
00:30:15,147 --> 00:30:18,191
and that's when I turned into an adult.
492
00:30:18,275 --> 00:30:21,278
["Four Strong Winds"
The Journeymen]
493
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:25,574
HUNGRY I
494
00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:27,659
And that's when I met John Phillips,
495
00:30:27,743 --> 00:30:30,704
because the Journeymen were playing
the Hungry I...
496
00:30:31,288 --> 00:30:35,959
and I just fell madly in love
with the tall guitar player.
497
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:40,297
And we had my father
come up from Los Angeles
498
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:43,008
and John just begged him...
499
00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:45,969
to let him take me to New York.
500
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:51,183
And my father said, "You know,
she hasn't even finished high school."
501
00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:52,351
And John said...
502
00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:56,938
"Gil... l'll teach her everything
she has to know."
503
00:31:00,192 --> 00:31:02,402
And my father said,
"Yeah, I bet you will."
504
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:10,077
I was walking down the street
in my poncho,
505
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,081
and the reason I'm in that outfit
is I could not afford a winter coat.
506
00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:17,501
I was a professor
and making very little money.
507
00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:27,427
I was in a male-dominated
academic environment.
508
00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:30,222
Other women my age
have said the same thing:
509
00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,307
English departments were all men.
510
00:31:33,934 --> 00:31:36,520
I didn't have any women professors.
511
00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:41,942
I was not a liberated woman.
512
00:31:42,025 --> 00:31:46,696
I had a boyfriend from high school
that I followed through college.
513
00:31:47,197 --> 00:31:51,785
So I was following a guy that I thought
I would be spending my life with.
514
00:31:52,786 --> 00:31:56,748
He didn't know how to make love
so I had no experience sexually.
515
00:31:56,832 --> 00:32:02,003
I didn't know what a clitoris was.
I didn't ever experience gratification
516
00:32:02,087 --> 00:32:05,674
until I met someone who was like
26 or whatever in college.
517
00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:09,636
It was actually my professor
and I had an affair with him.
518
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:17,269
And he showed me what it's about.
519
00:32:17,352 --> 00:32:19,438
And that was the end...
That was the beginning of my,
520
00:32:19,521 --> 00:32:21,022
"Oh, my God, you can have an orgasm."
521
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:23,483
It was a very big thing.
522
00:32:27,904 --> 00:32:31,783
When I met Abdul Kareem,
and that's not his real name,
523
00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:37,581
we talked about Dostoyevsky and Proust
and we were film buffs and opera buffs.
524
00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:40,333
He promised a life of adventure
525
00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:43,503
and travel and I was lusting for that.
526
00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:47,382
He's the first man I slept with.
I'm a nice Jewish girl,
527
00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:50,552
you're supposed to do right
by the first man you sleep with.
528
00:32:51,303 --> 00:32:52,137
So...
529
00:32:52,679 --> 00:32:53,889
I brought him home.
530
00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:58,018
I brought him home to impress my family.
My family freaked out.
531
00:32:58,226 --> 00:33:00,687
He was the wrong religion,
he was the wrong color,
532
00:33:00,770 --> 00:33:02,355
he was from the wrong country,
533
00:33:02,439 --> 00:33:05,150
nobody knew his family,�you know?
534
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:09,237
And... in retrospect,
if my family had been a bit more cool,
535
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:11,531
I might have tired of him.
536
00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,288
I believed that I would
just meet his family.
537
00:33:18,747 --> 00:33:19,956
He never told me...
538
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:24,794
that his father had three wives
and 21 children.
539
00:33:24,878 --> 00:33:25,837
Didn't mention it.
540
00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:28,131
Knew this guy for three years,
didn't say it.
541
00:33:28,215 --> 00:33:30,926
He didn't tell me
I would be living with my mother-in-law.
542
00:33:32,928 --> 00:33:34,304
When we land...
543
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:36,473
there's an official at the airport...
544
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:40,852
who very smoothly says,
"Madam, we need your passport."
545
00:33:40,936 --> 00:33:43,146
I said, "No, it's my American passport."
546
00:33:43,772 --> 00:33:46,107
And he said, "Well, it's just a formality.
547
00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:48,193
You know, we'll send it to your home."
548
00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:50,153
I never saw it again.
549
00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:52,948
I instantly became the property...
550
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:57,410
of a large, wealthy,
polygamous Afghan family
551
00:33:57,494 --> 00:33:58,745
and the citizen of no country.
552
00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:03,542
From that moment on,
553
00:34:03,792 --> 00:34:06,878
I became a firebrand feminist.
554
00:34:06,962 --> 00:34:13,134
Born in America but always with my eye
on women's fate globally.
555
00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:17,430
Back to London to meet the designer
who may go down in fashion history
556
00:34:17,514 --> 00:34:19,808
as the man who invented the new walk.
557
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:23,019
With one hand he puts back the clock
to the days of the hobble skirt
558
00:34:23,103 --> 00:34:25,564
and with the other, well, wait and see.
559
00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:31,778
A few pins and the answer to
"What's his line?" is "A straight line."
560
00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:34,990
The only thing is
will Sheila be able to walk at all?
561
00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:49,379
I had several breakdowns
562
00:34:49,462 --> 00:34:53,758
and actually was in hospital
for periods of time...
563
00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:56,886
and what they would do
in these hospitals, really,
564
00:34:56,970 --> 00:34:59,681
would be to retrain you to go back
565
00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:04,102
to what you were doing before. You know,
to be a good girl, to be a housewife.
566
00:35:05,854 --> 00:35:06,938
I was in college
567
00:35:07,022 --> 00:35:09,858
and I wasn't getting the best grades
and I remember my father saying,
568
00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:12,861
"Oh, she's just gonna get married anyway.
It doesn't matter."
569
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:15,989
And that still rings in my ears.
570
00:35:16,906 --> 00:35:20,619
I felt that I had something else to do...
571
00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:24,831
other than just get married
and be Mrs. Somebody.
572
00:35:26,666 --> 00:35:30,170
But I ended up putting
a husband through medical school
573
00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,506
and I'd spent a lot of time alone.
574
00:35:35,091 --> 00:35:37,886
I was getting more and more depressed...
575
00:35:38,428 --> 00:35:41,139
and I kind of came to...
576
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:46,353
standing in our bedroom
with a blanket over my head...
577
00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:49,314
and I just said to myself...
578
00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:51,524
"This is not me.
579
00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:54,569
I can't live like this.
I have to do something."
580
00:35:56,613 --> 00:35:58,323
One particular weekend
581
00:35:58,823 --> 00:36:02,369
there was one of these staged
family picnics.
582
00:36:02,452 --> 00:36:06,373
The only time we ever did stuff like that
was if some photographs were being taken
583
00:36:06,456 --> 00:36:08,249
to show us as "family."
584
00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:10,126
All the dynamic is there.
585
00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:13,755
I am hovering close to my father.
586
00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:16,841
That was the start that would
587
00:36:16,925 --> 00:36:18,635
bring me to salvation.
588
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:22,555
He was not paying attention to anybody,
589
00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:24,224
everybody was kind of separate,
590
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:27,727
and my mother
was leaning forward looking desperate.
591
00:36:28,687 --> 00:36:31,648
Well, of course, she killed herself
five months later.
592
00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:44,369
I remember
taking a whole bottle of pills...
593
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:48,206
you know, upset about
some relationship thing and...
594
00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:51,793
But also feeling... You know, sort of
watching myself from above
595
00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:53,628
feeling like a total idiot and...
596
00:36:53,712 --> 00:36:56,047
I had better things to do.
My mother was right,
597
00:36:56,464 --> 00:36:58,675
don't give it up for love.
598
00:36:58,758 --> 00:37:01,010
No. Love is all there is.
599
00:37:01,094 --> 00:37:03,179
Love is all... Love...
600
00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:12,564
People have asked me,
"How long did it take you
601
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:13,773
to write Women and Madness?"
602
00:37:13,857 --> 00:37:15,734
And I say, "My whole life."
It was my first book.
603
00:37:15,817 --> 00:37:22,115
FEMINIST PSYCHOTHERAPY:
SEEKING TO REDEFINE 'HEALTHY WOMEN'
604
00:37:22,198 --> 00:37:26,786
TOLD TO 'ADJUST', SHE ONLY GOT WORSE
605
00:37:28,663 --> 00:37:32,667
I had made headlines because�I demanded
a million dollars in reparations
606
00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:35,086
from
the American Psychological Association
607
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:38,006
on behalf of women
who had been very badly treated.
608
00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:43,595
Publishers came calling, I was consumed
by the ideas in this book.
609
00:37:44,637 --> 00:37:46,097
It's never been out of print.
610
00:37:46,181 --> 00:37:48,016
It's gone through many editions.
611
00:37:48,558 --> 00:37:50,894
Feminists became therapists.
612
00:37:51,311 --> 00:37:54,773
Women patients signed themselves
out of mental hospitals.
613
00:37:54,856 --> 00:37:56,816
They wrote me letters, they told me.
614
00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,444
They left abusive marriages.
615
00:37:59,527 --> 00:38:02,614
They began to think
like Amazons, they said,
616
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:04,824
because I used the Amazon myth.
617
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:09,204
And it changed
the profession by 10 percent,
618
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:11,289
maybe by 15 percent.
619
00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:14,334
That's not good enough for me
but that is something.
620
00:38:18,421 --> 00:38:21,049
In Chicago is where I gave birth
621
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:22,884
to my two little boys...
622
00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:25,136
and after the second one
623
00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:27,680
I sort of thought,
"I replenished the Hungarians.
624
00:38:27,764 --> 00:38:30,350
Two is enough." And, um...
625
00:38:30,433 --> 00:38:31,810
...so I went to this church
626
00:38:31,893 --> 00:38:35,063
because I had to have
community somewhere
627
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:38,525
and... there was Father Taylor
628
00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:43,071
who I got to confess to and I told him,
629
00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:45,949
"Yes, that I'm using contraception now."
630
00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:50,328
And he said,
"Well, I cannot forgive you then."
631
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:55,250
And I just thought about it a moment
and it hit me that...
632
00:38:56,376 --> 00:38:59,295
I said, "Father Taylor,
you father of nothing.
633
00:38:59,379 --> 00:39:01,589
You have not having any children."
634
00:39:01,965 --> 00:39:07,554
I just laid down my anger about,
"How dare you telling a woman what to do?"
635
00:39:08,054 --> 00:39:11,933
And that woke me up,
how men tell women how to do babies.
636
00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:16,271
♪ We must control our bodies
To control our lives�♪
637
00:39:16,563 --> 00:39:20,233
♪ If we have children
We want them to be planned�♪
638
00:39:20,316 --> 00:39:24,696
♪ What we want is abortion
Abortion on demand�♪
639
00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:28,324
It's important to understand:
640
00:39:28,408 --> 00:39:31,452
you had to have the child.
There were no options.
641
00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:35,957
And so when I was off on my own
after I got away from that first husband,
642
00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:40,503
uh, literally, you know,
I made a lot of mistakes.
643
00:39:41,713 --> 00:39:43,214
But I had no money,
644
00:39:43,298 --> 00:39:46,134
I got two abortions in Mexico,
645
00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:49,762
one here where I almost died, uh,
646
00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:54,225
with a balloon of something
that they put inside of me.
647
00:39:54,309 --> 00:39:56,644
But you were that desperate.
648
00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:59,105
Was some of that before it was legal?
649
00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:01,566
Oh, all of them were before it was legal.
650
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:07,405
I wanted to battle that.
I wanted to take that on.
651
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,743
Birth control rights
were very, very important to me,
652
00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:13,828
because I went through an experience.
653
00:40:14,370 --> 00:40:17,040
-What was that?
-Well, I got pregnant.
654
00:40:17,123 --> 00:40:20,084
Uh, from the boyfriend who didn't know
anything about...
655
00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:23,129
...how to make love
but he knew how to get you pre...
656
00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:27,467
So I used a diaphragm
and I got pregnant in '67...
657
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:29,594
before it was legal.
658
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:34,223
Just word of mouth...
found a psychiatrist...
659
00:40:35,058 --> 00:40:36,309
um, I could bribe.
660
00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:37,977
He told me what to say, you know.
661
00:40:38,061 --> 00:40:39,771
He said "They can only give you
a psychiatric
662
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:41,147
if you say you'll kill yourself."
663
00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:43,232
So I said, "I'll kill myself.
Okay. No problem."
664
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,236
And then I went into, um, the thing
665
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,697
and they said,
"You should be out in like a half hour."
666
00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:52,033
I woke up two days later
667
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:55,203
with IVs in my arm
and I bled for two days straight.
668
00:40:56,371 --> 00:41:01,167
So I'm alive now, probably,
because I went to a legal abortion
669
00:41:01,501 --> 00:41:03,711
in a hospital where they had transfusions.
670
00:41:04,504 --> 00:41:08,132
This is a live picture
of Fort Worth senator Wendy Davis
671
00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:11,678
leading a filibuster
until the session runs out.
672
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:15,139
Now, if it's passed, the bill
would effectively shut down
673
00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:17,475
most abortion clinics in Texas.
674
00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:21,396
Our bodies, our lives,
our right to decide.
675
00:41:21,646 --> 00:41:25,358
Our bodies, our lives,
our right to decide.
676
00:41:25,775 --> 00:41:30,238
And that's what is so scary
about losing this right that we have.
677
00:41:30,530 --> 00:41:33,491
Because women will do it.
678
00:41:34,117 --> 00:41:35,910
It's the only power they have.
679
00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:39,956
That it's hard for men to believe
women should have the right to control...
680
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:40,999
their own bodies.
681
00:41:41,249 --> 00:41:44,002
Mentally the right-wingers are doing that
682
00:41:44,085 --> 00:41:46,713
because they don't want women
to have the freedom...
683
00:41:47,213 --> 00:41:50,258
and they have a magical thinking
about sperm, I think.
684
00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:55,888
WOMANHOUSE
685
00:41:59,726 --> 00:42:04,647
Will you help me do the dishes?
686
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:08,443
Help you do the dishes?
687
00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:15,158
Well, they're your dishes as much as mine.
688
00:42:15,742 --> 00:42:18,870
But you don't have a cock.
689
00:42:24,834 --> 00:42:30,173
After a decade�of professional practice
in Southern California,
690
00:42:30,256 --> 00:42:33,801
I got sick to death of trying
to "act like a man,"
691
00:42:34,343 --> 00:42:35,762
paint like a man,
692
00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:39,057
you know, not be myself as a woman.
693
00:42:40,850 --> 00:42:43,269
The woman's movement was just starting,
694
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:47,648
some of the radical feminist literature
is coming out in New York
695
00:42:48,316 --> 00:42:51,903
and, of course, it's speaking
to everything I'm feeling.�You know, like,
696
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:53,654
I was getting really pissed off
697
00:42:53,738 --> 00:42:56,407
by being told that I couldn't be
a woman and an artist too.
698
00:42:56,491 --> 00:43:00,036
I was watching the men
get, like, moved along
699
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:03,289
on the choo-choo train of success
and everything.
700
00:43:03,372 --> 00:43:07,502
Every single instance of moving forward...
701
00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:11,005
Okay, I have a show, nothing would happen.
I wouldn't sell anything.
702
00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:18,888
You couldn't really talk
at that time about sexism,
703
00:43:18,971 --> 00:43:21,265
but I decided to start speaking out
704
00:43:21,349 --> 00:43:26,604
and I decided to create
a feminist art practice.
705
00:43:28,815 --> 00:43:31,317
If I help young women...
706
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,277
Younger than me.�I was only 30.
707
00:43:33,361 --> 00:43:34,737
But young women...
708
00:43:35,154 --> 00:43:37,532
learn how to become professional artists
709
00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:41,536
without having to disconnect
from their impulses as women
710
00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:44,288
maybe I can find my way back
711
00:43:44,789 --> 00:43:46,958
to my own voice.
712
00:43:54,632 --> 00:43:59,846
WOMANHOUSE WAS A FEMINIST ART INSTALLATION
CREATED BY JUDY CHICAGO, MIRIAM SCHAPIRO
713
00:43:59,929 --> 00:44:02,890
AND THE CAL ARTS
FEMINIST ART PROGRAM IN 1972.
714
00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:05,852
IT WAS VIEWED BY 10,000 VISITORS.
715
00:44:05,935 --> 00:44:09,230
WOMANHOUSE
716
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:22,201
Men were having the experience
717
00:44:22,702 --> 00:44:25,329
of seeing our point of view.
718
00:44:26,038 --> 00:44:29,959
They were becoming an audience
for the female gaze
719
00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:32,461
in the same way women have been
the audience
720
00:44:32,545 --> 00:44:35,381
for�the male gaze for centuries.
721
00:44:45,474 --> 00:44:48,227
Meeting Judy Chicago
turned my life around.
722
00:44:49,187 --> 00:44:51,355
And one of the things
that had just happened for me
723
00:44:51,439 --> 00:44:53,858
is at the end of the first year
of graduate school,
724
00:44:54,317 --> 00:44:58,154
they had a competition.
First place was a thousand dollars...
725
00:44:58,905 --> 00:45:01,782
and they gave me first place
and the ribbon...
726
00:45:02,909 --> 00:45:04,869
and they gave me 500 dollars.
727
00:45:05,203 --> 00:45:07,914
And they gave the two men
who were second place
728
00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:09,290
500 dollars each.
729
00:45:09,874 --> 00:45:12,001
I was like, "Well, how can you do that?"
730
00:45:12,877 --> 00:45:14,212
"Well, you know...
731
00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:19,133
they weren't as good as yours
but they were as good as each other's."
732
00:45:20,593 --> 00:45:22,261
So I told that story to Judy.
733
00:45:23,763 --> 00:45:26,015
She says, "Nothing you can ever do...
734
00:45:27,183 --> 00:45:30,144
is going to make you one of those boys."
735
00:45:31,479 --> 00:45:34,190
I became much less interested in...
736
00:45:34,774 --> 00:45:38,236
pleasing the world or trying to get
the world to acknowledge me
737
00:45:38,486 --> 00:45:42,114
and much more interested
in how I could make a contribution
738
00:45:42,198 --> 00:45:43,449
that fulfilled me.
739
00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:48,454
I was receiving an award for a film
740
00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:51,791
and so they handed the trophies
to each director.
741
00:45:51,874 --> 00:45:54,961
And when they got to me,
they handed it to my actor,
742
00:45:55,378 --> 00:45:57,088
who is a man.
743
00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,882
And then, after that,
they ushered the actor
744
00:45:59,966 --> 00:46:02,802
onto the backdrop
to take all the pictures
745
00:46:02,885 --> 00:46:05,513
and I just remember
standing there like, "Wow."
746
00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:08,641
I had to push my way onto the backdrop
747
00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,936
to get in the picture
and I felt really stupid
748
00:46:12,019 --> 00:46:14,313
as if I was making a big deal out of it.
749
00:46:14,397 --> 00:46:17,400
But it was a big deal.
You know, I was the director.
750
00:46:18,818 --> 00:46:21,570
If a man says something
that's clearly sexist
751
00:46:21,654 --> 00:46:23,072
or does something that's sexist,
752
00:46:23,155 --> 00:46:25,658
oftentimes my first reaction
is to kind of like...
753
00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:28,494
...like, laugh it off and like
make the man feel comfortable.
754
00:46:28,577 --> 00:46:29,745
It's just such a reflex.
755
00:46:29,829 --> 00:46:32,915
And then afterwards, I'll be like,
"Damn it, that was... I'm not a feminist.
756
00:46:32,999 --> 00:46:34,792
That was not a feminist response.
757
00:46:34,875 --> 00:46:37,545
I should have really, you know,
spoken my mind to that guy."
758
00:46:37,628 --> 00:46:39,797
But we're so conditioned to be like,
"Are you okay?"
759
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,718
You know, like, "I'll go bleed later
but, like, how are you feeling?"
760
00:46:43,801 --> 00:46:46,220
You know, so, um...
761
00:47:03,571 --> 00:47:05,656
I'd of course had heard
about the movement,
762
00:47:05,740 --> 00:47:06,991
then I started
reading Kate Millett...
763
00:47:08,159 --> 00:47:09,869
reading a A Room of One's Own.
764
00:47:10,161 --> 00:47:12,621
I just had this incredible sense of relief
765
00:47:12,705 --> 00:47:16,834
that what I had suffered
and struggled with alone...
766
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:20,963
somehow I realized
that it was not my problem,
767
00:47:21,047 --> 00:47:22,840
that it was just more a social problem.
768
00:47:22,923 --> 00:47:25,092
And, I remember being in bed...
769
00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:27,970
Like, you know,
because I never have slept very well
770
00:47:28,054 --> 00:47:31,140
but I get a lot of ideas
when I'm tossing and turning.
771
00:47:31,223 --> 00:47:36,437
And I remember thinking about,
"If the education of the girl child
772
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,733
was the kind of education that told us
that we have all possibilities,
773
00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:42,818
that there are no limits
to our possibilities,
774
00:47:42,902 --> 00:47:45,029
then the world would be a better place.
775
00:47:48,282 --> 00:47:55,039
EDUCATION OF THE GIRLCHILD (1972)
MEREDITH MONK
776
00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:07,009
In a sense, I feel more like a humanist.
777
00:48:08,094 --> 00:48:12,098
I think that if there's an advance
in half of the human race
778
00:48:12,181 --> 00:48:14,850
then that also helps
the other half of the human race.
779
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:20,231
CHILDREN NEED DAY CARE
780
00:48:22,108 --> 00:48:25,236
I was teaching in CUNY at Queens College
781
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:29,949
and there was a lot of organizing
among the students of color
782
00:48:30,032 --> 00:48:31,283
and the faculty of color.
783
00:48:31,534 --> 00:48:34,954
You know, against racism
and access and that sort of thing.
784
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:39,250
We were working
with some of the welfare mothers
785
00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:41,502
who had gone into City University
786
00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:46,507
under a special program�to help bring in
poor and minority students,
787
00:48:46,590 --> 00:48:48,300
and there were various problems,
788
00:48:48,384 --> 00:48:52,054
including the fact
that the women needed childcare.
789
00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:53,055
There wasn't any.
790
00:48:54,014 --> 00:48:56,183
We went into the Women's Center
791
00:48:56,267 --> 00:48:58,811
and got space in the Women's Center.
792
00:48:58,894 --> 00:49:01,439
Now that was frowned upon by the men...
793
00:49:02,731 --> 00:49:03,566
who were...
794
00:49:03,649 --> 00:49:06,777
Considered themselves, you know,
these third-world revolutionaries
795
00:49:06,861 --> 00:49:09,572
and academic heavies.
It's like, "Why are you going in?
796
00:49:09,655 --> 00:49:13,033
You know, you're separating yourselves
from the black community
797
00:49:13,117 --> 00:49:15,786
by going into the Women's Center?"
Because we know there are
798
00:49:15,870 --> 00:49:19,123
a bunch of white women over there
and a bunch of them are lesbians, right?
799
00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:21,542
And we were like,
"So what? We don't care."
800
00:49:21,876 --> 00:49:24,837
There was that tension
and we had to make that fight
801
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,466
to say that, yes, we are anti-racist
802
00:49:28,549 --> 00:49:30,384
and we are for women's rights.
803
00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:35,764
You have an asking of black women
to silence their gendered experience
804
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:39,643
for the sake of addressing racism.
We have to look at race,
805
00:49:39,727 --> 00:49:43,355
we can't talk about anything else,
and we can't divide the troops.
806
00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:46,233
I met a black man and he seemed real woke.
807
00:49:46,692 --> 00:49:50,070
An ankh around his neck,
a scent of Nag Champa smoke, he said,
808
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:53,324
"Queen sister,
mother of the earth, black girl,
809
00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:54,909
let me treat you like goddess.
810
00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:58,078
Gender binaries are an illusion
and patriarchy is a crook.
811
00:49:58,162 --> 00:50:00,748
It is our duty to fight like
812
00:50:00,831 --> 00:50:03,334
it is our duty to win, like...
813
00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:04,627
How much can we complain?
814
00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:07,254
We had a black man in the White House.
Look how much we've gained.
815
00:50:07,338 --> 00:50:08,297
Who's really woke?
816
00:50:09,715 --> 00:50:14,970
As a black woman,
it is oftentimes difficult...
817
00:50:16,138 --> 00:50:18,224
to identify as a feminist
818
00:50:18,307 --> 00:50:21,310
because it's so stigmatized
in our communities
819
00:50:21,393 --> 00:50:24,980
that the idea is that once you announce
that you're a feminist,
820
00:50:25,064 --> 00:50:29,151
that you are against the black man,
821
00:50:29,235 --> 00:50:30,569
and it's just not true.
822
00:50:30,653 --> 00:50:33,572
And, really, the way
that feminists in general
823
00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:38,702
are stigmatized as being against
and anti-man,
824
00:50:38,786 --> 00:50:44,333
instead of acknowledging the complexity
and fullness of being woman.
825
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:49,004
There were movements.
826
00:50:50,005 --> 00:50:52,132
It was very different
for women of color...
827
00:50:53,092 --> 00:50:55,469
it was very different
for working-class women,
828
00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:58,847
and some of the strongest,
smartest people I met
829
00:50:58,931 --> 00:51:00,349
were union women.
830
00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:03,060
We were sisters, yes.
Sisterhood is powerful...
831
00:51:03,852 --> 00:51:07,273
but the sisters came
from very different families
832
00:51:07,356 --> 00:51:08,732
and that had to be recognized.
833
00:51:21,412 --> 00:51:24,290
The "Ah-ha" moment
was discovering that I was a lesbian.
834
00:51:25,124 --> 00:51:27,167
That this was...
835
00:51:28,043 --> 00:51:30,462
a difference you had not expected...
836
00:51:31,964 --> 00:51:34,592
and this was a despised difference.
837
00:51:34,675 --> 00:51:36,010
Listen to me!
838
00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:41,473
I have loved you
the way they said.
839
00:51:44,685 --> 00:51:46,353
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
840
00:51:46,437 --> 00:51:48,606
There's always been something wrong.
841
00:51:49,315 --> 00:51:51,984
Always.
Just as long as I can remember.
842
00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:56,196
But I never knew what it was
until all this happened.
843
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,698
Stop it, Martha.
844
00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:01,410
Stop this crazy talk!
845
00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:03,454
This was bad.
846
00:52:04,663 --> 00:52:06,332
This was bad.
847
00:52:06,915 --> 00:52:08,250
I would feel...
848
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,588
closer to my girlfriends
than they felt towards me...
849
00:52:13,547 --> 00:52:15,090
and I didn't know what to do with that.
850
00:52:15,924 --> 00:52:19,803
And I remember one night,
I got a hold of a Free Press
851
00:52:20,304 --> 00:52:22,848
and in the back of the Free Press
were all these ads.
852
00:52:23,515 --> 00:52:26,644
And it said,
"Women's consciousness-raising groups."
853
00:52:27,144 --> 00:52:28,812
And I took down the address.
854
00:52:29,313 --> 00:52:32,358
Actually, I think it even said, "lesbian."
855
00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:35,110
And I couldn't say the word.
856
00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:37,363
I went... Le...
857
00:52:37,446 --> 00:52:39,281
I just could not say the word.
858
00:52:40,366 --> 00:52:43,911
And I remember going to that
consciousness-raising group...
859
00:52:44,578 --> 00:52:45,829
being petrified...
860
00:52:46,747 --> 00:52:49,375
sitting cross-legged on a couch,
looking at everybody
861
00:52:49,458 --> 00:52:52,044
and trying to figure out,
"What does this all mean?"
862
00:52:53,045 --> 00:52:55,798
And they talked.
They just talked about feelings.
863
00:52:56,382 --> 00:52:58,842
I was like, "Oh, they're just humans."
864
00:53:07,142 --> 00:53:09,728
I'm thinking I might
have been either planning
865
00:53:09,812 --> 00:53:11,397
to come to Broadway for the first time
866
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,983
or was on Broadway at that moment.
That would be 1977.
867
00:53:15,609 --> 00:53:19,363
Every time I see a yield sign
on the highway I feel sexually threatened.
868
00:53:21,156 --> 00:53:24,660
I've actually seen a man walk up
to four women sitting in a bar and say,
869
00:53:24,743 --> 00:53:26,829
"Hey, what are you doing here all alone?"
870
00:53:31,792 --> 00:53:33,669
My brother and I both are gay,
871
00:53:33,752 --> 00:53:35,170
so my brother, uh...
872
00:53:35,546 --> 00:53:40,968
he probably was treated
less kindly than I was,
873
00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:43,262
uh, because he was somewhat
effeminate as a boy.
874
00:53:43,345 --> 00:53:46,181
The '40s and the '50s
were a very rough time,
875
00:53:46,265 --> 00:53:49,184
uh, gender-wise.
I mean, I was a tomboy
876
00:53:49,268 --> 00:53:51,770
and I could run and jump on things
and jump off roofs
877
00:53:51,854 --> 00:53:56,608
and, you know, my brother wasn't as rough
and tumble as he should be,
878
00:53:56,692 --> 00:53:59,027
according to standards...
879
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,489
and he paid a big price for it, too.
880
00:54:10,414 --> 00:54:14,376
I don't really identify with being aware
of being gay so early in life...
881
00:54:14,835 --> 00:54:18,672
but I was always aware that there was
something different about me.
882
00:54:18,756 --> 00:54:23,302
I had relationships with men
and they did... did very little for me.
883
00:54:23,385 --> 00:54:25,846
And these were men I really liked
and was really close to.
884
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:29,224
Once I had been with a woman
it all came clear to me...
885
00:54:30,893 --> 00:54:32,895
but I never felt...
886
00:54:34,354 --> 00:54:36,231
that something was wrong with me for it.
887
00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:20,943
There I am in my little loft apartment
888
00:55:21,443 --> 00:55:26,490
and I'm juxtaposed across from a woman
who is completely naked
889
00:55:26,573 --> 00:55:28,867
and I can see that I am naked too,
but I...
890
00:55:28,951 --> 00:55:32,037
I don't actually see that
when I look at the picture.
891
00:55:32,621 --> 00:55:35,165
I see my intensity with the violin,
892
00:55:35,249 --> 00:55:37,417
I see the purity of the moment.
893
00:55:39,628 --> 00:55:41,630
The woman's naked body
894
00:55:42,005 --> 00:55:45,133
was no longer reserved to pornography...
895
00:55:46,635 --> 00:55:50,347
but the body was a source of pride...
and of health.
896
00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,350
The body was to be celebrated...
897
00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:55,269
and to be enjoyed.
898
00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:58,522
I loved being nude.
899
00:55:59,273 --> 00:56:01,900
I think that women
should be proud of their bodies,
900
00:56:01,984 --> 00:56:03,861
no matter what they look like.
901
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,616
Back then, you could get me to go out�in
Sheridan Square and take my clothes off,
902
00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:10,701
I'd think nothing of it.
903
00:56:12,536 --> 00:56:17,374
BARBARELLA
904
00:56:17,457 --> 00:56:19,167
I couldn't believe when it opens up
905
00:56:19,251 --> 00:56:21,503
and there you are,
hanging upside down,
906
00:56:21,587 --> 00:56:22,671
almost nude.
907
00:56:22,754 --> 00:56:25,340
-Almost.
-Well. Basically, I mean--
908
00:56:25,424 --> 00:56:29,011
I was nude except that the titles
were covering my tits and my...
909
00:56:29,761 --> 00:56:32,180
-pussy, that's all.
-I appreciate that.
910
00:56:32,264 --> 00:56:35,058
-So did I.
-And you're upside down writhing.
911
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,437
-You were like a sex toy.
-Right.
912
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,731
Yeah, it was pretty interesting,
especially given the fact
913
00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:42,608
that I hate to be naked.
914
00:56:44,651 --> 00:56:46,653
But Vadim had great imagination.
915
00:56:46,737 --> 00:56:49,281
And I thought, "Well, this could...
916
00:56:49,364 --> 00:56:51,408
It could be a really funny way
to open the movie."
917
00:56:51,491 --> 00:56:54,453
But that's the least of the things
that I did that I didn't really want to do
918
00:56:54,536 --> 00:56:56,580
because I didn't know how to say no.
919
00:56:56,955 --> 00:57:00,292
I've only known for ten years
that "no" is a complete sentence.
920
00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:15,682
I had no interest in
becoming part of a musical group.
921
00:57:16,516 --> 00:57:20,020
I couldn't think of anything
I wanted to do less.
922
00:57:20,604 --> 00:57:23,899
But he said,�"Yeah, you're going to be
in the new group."
923
00:57:25,233 --> 00:57:26,652
I said, "But...
924
00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:28,946
I... I can't sing."
925
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:31,281
He said, "You sing just fine."
926
00:57:32,491 --> 00:57:33,617
And that was that.
927
00:57:38,997 --> 00:57:43,001
[The Mamas and the Papas
"California Dreamin'"]
928
00:57:51,635 --> 00:57:55,389
John and I had just written
a song called "California Dreamin'."
929
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,601
When we started singing
with Cass and Denny,
930
00:58:00,143 --> 00:58:01,728
we started pulling out...
931
00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:03,981
...every piece of material that we had.
932
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,033
I was having a lot of fun,
933
00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:17,327
making a lot of money.
934
00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:19,371
I had equal pay,
935
00:58:19,788 --> 00:58:21,790
I had fame...
936
00:58:24,167 --> 00:58:26,753
I was very innocent.
937
00:58:27,587 --> 00:58:31,550
Actually, I was fired
from the Mamas and the Papas...
938
00:58:32,884 --> 00:58:39,307
because I was having a relationship
outside of my marriage.
939
00:58:40,434 --> 00:58:44,104
Um, he was too but, you know...
940
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:47,566
I never thought that he could fire me.
941
00:58:48,150 --> 00:58:49,276
That was a...
942
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,863
moment for me, when I realized...
943
00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:55,574
that I was powerless...
944
00:58:56,491 --> 00:58:58,535
without John.
945
00:59:07,419 --> 00:59:13,050
END THE WAR MADNESS
946
00:59:13,133 --> 00:59:15,761
WARS WILL CEASE
WHEN MEN REFUSE TO FIGHT
947
00:59:15,844 --> 00:59:19,639
I had started demonstrating
because of the Vietnam War
948
00:59:19,723 --> 00:59:22,726
and then I met very strong women
connected to that.
949
00:59:23,810 --> 00:59:27,606
The women were all starting
to group together and do caucuses.
950
00:59:32,819 --> 00:59:35,280
It was like, there's the wave
951
00:59:35,363 --> 00:59:37,449
and I'm getting on it.
952
00:59:42,746 --> 00:59:44,164
1970.
953
00:59:44,956 --> 00:59:47,000
Women's strike for equality.
954
00:59:48,418 --> 00:59:52,923
Edie and Marge and I were there marching
with 50,000 others down Fifth Avenue.
955
00:59:53,924 --> 00:59:58,011
The Senate held ERA hearings
for the first time since 1956.
956
00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:01,181
We thought we were going to change it all.
957
01:00:01,264 --> 01:00:05,143
I sailed into the second wave of feminism
as if I was born for it.
958
01:00:06,728 --> 01:00:10,565
The fact that the leaders among us
may have been strong-willed
959
01:00:10,649 --> 01:00:14,236
and rebellious and already
bent on accomplishment
960
01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:15,570
with a ferocity,
961
01:00:16,238 --> 01:00:19,241
but women were no longer just competing
962
01:00:19,324 --> 01:00:21,201
one against the other for a man.
963
01:00:21,993 --> 01:00:26,748
Women were now all part of a team
fighting for all women's freedom.
964
01:00:28,917 --> 01:00:30,919
We were now Amazons.
965
01:00:31,002 --> 01:00:33,004
We were now sisters.
966
01:00:36,258 --> 01:00:38,844
The power of our sisterhood.
967
01:00:39,219 --> 01:00:42,013
Oh, I feel such a rush.
968
01:00:43,265 --> 01:00:46,393
And anything we said or did
made the headlines.
969
01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:47,978
KATE MILLET
OF WOMEN'S LIB
970
01:00:48,061 --> 01:00:50,480
As feminists, what we believe in
is very simple,
971
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:54,860
and that is the social, economic
and political equality of the sexes.
972
01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:58,321
Now, therefore,
we are in politics, you see,
973
01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:02,617
because the relationship between the sexes
is in fact a political relationship.
974
01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:05,036
Join us now!
975
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,165
Sisterhood is powerful! Join us now!
976
01:01:08,248 --> 01:01:11,626
What do we want?
Equality! When do we want it? Now!
977
01:01:12,043 --> 01:01:13,670
For those who think...
978
01:01:14,296 --> 01:01:17,382
that the women's liberation movement
is a joke,
979
01:01:18,049 --> 01:01:22,762
vaguely connected with burning bras
and getting in the men-only bars,
980
01:01:23,180 --> 01:01:25,223
I disabuse you of that notion.
981
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,478
It is about equal pay
and equal opportunity in the job market.
982
01:01:37,777 --> 01:01:39,863
We wanted to win our autonomy,
983
01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:43,033
we wanted to win our body,
984
01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:45,535
we wanted to win the right to our voice,
985
01:01:45,619 --> 01:01:48,455
we wanted to get our bills
passed in the legislature.
986
01:01:49,039 --> 01:01:50,165
We wanted to get...
987
01:01:50,957 --> 01:01:52,751
women behind the camera...
988
01:01:53,919 --> 01:01:58,256
we wanted to get our poems on the page...
we wanted what Gloria and Leti
989
01:01:58,340 --> 01:02:00,300
and the others did,
to set up our own magazines,
990
01:02:00,759 --> 01:02:03,970
and we wanted them to be successful.
991
01:02:05,513 --> 01:02:07,390
We wanted to win.
992
01:02:08,516 --> 01:02:11,394
Now, thanks to the spirit of equality
in the air
993
01:02:11,478 --> 01:02:14,731
and to the work of many
of my more foresighted sisters,
994
01:02:14,814 --> 01:02:17,651
I no longer accept society's judgment
995
01:02:18,151 --> 01:02:20,070
that my group is second class.
996
01:02:25,742 --> 01:02:27,911
There was a group of about 30 women
997
01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:30,455
who came to Los Angeles,
998
01:02:30,538 --> 01:02:36,169
as a result of Judy Chicago,
Arlene Raven and Sheila de Bretteville
999
01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:41,216
soliciting women to come and join
this new program of feminist art.
1000
01:02:42,133 --> 01:02:45,679
We all showed up having paid our tuition,
1001
01:02:45,762 --> 01:02:47,055
and there was no school.
1002
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:53,061
There was 34 women sitting on the floor
in Sheila de Bretteville's house.
1003
01:02:53,561 --> 01:02:54,813
Women were shocked...
1004
01:02:56,356 --> 01:02:59,526
and, you know, a lot of them were saying,
"Well, what am I paying for?"
1005
01:03:00,735 --> 01:03:03,071
Judy very succinctly said...
1006
01:03:04,114 --> 01:03:05,991
"You're paying for the opportunity
1007
01:03:06,074 --> 01:03:09,619
to do your art�and get support for it.
1008
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:13,373
You're paying for the opportunity
to change the rest of your life.
1009
01:03:14,291 --> 01:03:17,168
You're paying for the opportunity
to change the world."
1010
01:03:18,003 --> 01:03:19,421
We did have to build that...
1011
01:03:20,088 --> 01:03:21,548
we couldn't go rent that.
1012
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:24,050
It didn't come with the building,
1013
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:26,094
it came with the building of the building.
1014
01:03:45,613 --> 01:03:46,990
Women really�benefited...
1015
01:03:47,532 --> 01:03:48,908
from having a place
1016
01:03:48,992 --> 01:03:52,454
where they could say what they wanted,
build what they wanted...
1017
01:03:52,912 --> 01:03:55,248
and be seen as strong
1018
01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:58,126
and powerful and competent.
1019
01:04:00,086 --> 01:04:03,590
We will not be equal.
1020
01:04:03,798 --> 01:04:06,634
In this world,
we will not have our stories told,
1021
01:04:06,718 --> 01:04:08,678
we will not have our stories preserved,
1022
01:04:08,762 --> 01:04:11,431
we will not have our stories recognized
1023
01:04:11,514 --> 01:04:16,603
until we have our institutions
to pass on our culture.
1024
01:04:17,645 --> 01:04:20,023
Because that's what institutions do.
1025
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:27,405
THE WOMAN'S BUILDING
1973-1991 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1026
01:04:28,990 --> 01:04:31,159
1977 Houston,
1027
01:04:31,242 --> 01:04:33,161
International Women's Year.
1028
01:04:35,622 --> 01:04:37,874
ERA YES!
1029
01:04:37,957 --> 01:04:40,794
THERE'S A BETTER WAY!
THAN ERA.
1030
01:04:43,004 --> 01:04:44,756
Never before in our history
1031
01:04:44,839 --> 01:04:46,841
has there been such a women's meeting
1032
01:04:46,925 --> 01:04:47,967
in numbers,
1033
01:04:48,051 --> 01:04:49,594
in preparation,
1034
01:04:49,677 --> 01:04:50,845
in diversity,
1035
01:04:51,221 --> 01:04:52,889
in long-range effect.
1036
01:04:53,348 --> 01:04:55,266
Let us celebrate womanhood
1037
01:04:55,350 --> 01:04:57,852
and let us celebrate democracy
1038
01:04:57,936 --> 01:04:59,646
and let us celebrate woman power.
1039
01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:04,442
This is the time that we will make
women and men share equally
1040
01:05:04,526 --> 01:05:06,277
in the greatness of America.
1041
01:05:06,361 --> 01:05:07,946
Thank you very, very much.
1042
01:05:10,156 --> 01:05:14,369
I was part of the first
congressionally-mandated
1043
01:05:14,452 --> 01:05:18,123
U.S. Conference on Women
held in Houston in 1977.
1044
01:05:18,748 --> 01:05:21,751
Women of color got together
and ran a slate.
1045
01:05:22,919 --> 01:05:27,549
We felt that the concerns
of mothers on welfare of poverty,
1046
01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:31,469
of the forced sterilization
of women of color
1047
01:05:31,553 --> 01:05:33,471
wasn't really getting a look in.
1048
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:38,935
I got to the floor
to raise a resolution...
1049
01:05:39,727 --> 01:05:42,313
opposing the forced sterilization
1050
01:05:42,397 --> 01:05:45,567
of black, Native American
and Puerto Rican women
1051
01:05:45,984 --> 01:05:47,735
and my mic was shut off.
1052
01:05:49,612 --> 01:05:53,825
We were told not to raise these issues
because if we did,
1053
01:05:53,908 --> 01:05:56,619
it would jeopardize choice,
1054
01:05:56,703 --> 01:05:59,372
which we all supported choice,
the right to abortion.
1055
01:05:59,456 --> 01:06:00,707
You know, we all supported it.
1056
01:06:02,125 --> 01:06:03,460
We were saying, "No,
1057
01:06:03,543 --> 01:06:05,795
you can't do that on our�backs."
1058
01:06:06,379 --> 01:06:10,800
Women are going into hospital,
they come out and they're sterilized.
1059
01:06:11,426 --> 01:06:14,471
How the hell are we supposed to keep
our mouth shut about that?
1060
01:06:15,138 --> 01:06:19,142
We did ask that we not be segregated
1061
01:06:19,225 --> 01:06:21,811
into minority women, on your own,
1062
01:06:21,895 --> 01:06:24,898
that we�wanted to be part
of�the mainstream of women
1063
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:29,986
and that we wanted to be included in
every part of the plan�that affected us.
1064
01:06:31,529 --> 01:06:34,699
It's all well and good to say
you're for all women...
1065
01:06:35,241 --> 01:06:39,329
but if you're not listening�to the voices
of the women of color
1066
01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:45,877
and telling us that we have got to put
our concerns and issues on the sideline
1067
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,504
for the greater good...
1068
01:06:47,587 --> 01:06:49,756
That's part of what happened there
1069
01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:53,760
and, unfortunately, it meant
that some people fell into separatism.
1070
01:06:54,177 --> 01:06:56,596
"Oh, yeah, we can't have nothing to do
with these white women
1071
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:58,223
because they're going
to sell you down the river."
1072
01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:02,310
So, where, then, do black women
exist in this conversation?
1073
01:07:02,393 --> 01:07:05,021
If you can't talk about,
within black spaces,
1074
01:07:05,104 --> 01:07:06,773
you can't talk about your gender,
1075
01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:09,943
and within women's spaces,
you can't talk about your race,
1076
01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:15,365
but you are both, equally, every day
when you wake up, what, then, do you do?
1077
01:07:16,616 --> 01:07:19,577
There were others of us
who took another approach
1078
01:07:19,661 --> 01:07:21,454
because, at the end of the day,
1079
01:07:21,538 --> 01:07:25,083
when you look at the abolitionist movement
1080
01:07:25,166 --> 01:07:27,293
and you look at civil rights movements
1081
01:07:27,377 --> 01:07:30,547
you saw that, of course,
white women were there.
1082
01:07:30,922 --> 01:07:34,092
You know, because they were
considered property.
1083
01:07:34,175 --> 01:07:36,636
Do you not believe
the woman's place is in the home, right?
1084
01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:39,764
Of course not.
It's a very oppressive concept.
1085
01:07:39,847 --> 01:07:42,809
It's being used to oppress women
and to make them think
1086
01:07:42,892 --> 01:07:44,602
they're lucky to be slaves.
1087
01:07:45,478 --> 01:07:47,647
How many women in the home
are slaves?
1088
01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:49,732
All women are slaves.
1089
01:07:54,737 --> 01:07:58,324
One of my best friends
was organizing female office workers.
1090
01:07:58,825 --> 01:08:01,619
Over the years, she had told me stories
about what happened
1091
01:08:01,703 --> 01:08:04,789
and how women were treated in large,
especially in institutional offices,
1092
01:08:04,872 --> 01:08:07,166
insurance companies, banks and so forth.
1093
01:08:08,209 --> 01:08:11,337
We went to Cleveland
to meet with all these secretaries
1094
01:08:11,421 --> 01:08:14,257
and went around
and the women all told their stories
1095
01:08:14,340 --> 01:08:16,050
and then Colin Higgins asked them,
1096
01:08:16,134 --> 01:08:19,387
"Do any of you ever fantasize
what you'd like to do to your boss?"
1097
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:20,597
Oh, well.
1098
01:08:25,810 --> 01:08:27,228
And that became the movie.
1099
01:08:27,312 --> 01:08:29,314
["9 to 5" Dolly Parton]
1100
01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:48,541
Dolly wrote the song
and that became
1101
01:08:48,625 --> 01:08:51,210
the anthem for the movement of secretaries
1102
01:08:51,753 --> 01:08:54,005
and it was the biggest
money maker that year.
1103
01:08:55,214 --> 01:08:57,884
And it was one of the most
glorious experiences...
1104
01:08:59,093 --> 01:09:00,428
of my life.
1105
01:09:09,228 --> 01:09:13,483
I knew about sexism
but I didn't think about it that much...
1106
01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:16,235
and then as soon
as I became conscious of it,
1107
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:19,822
I started to notice it everywhere,
more and more.
1108
01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:23,951
I'm not a very aggressive person by nature
1109
01:09:24,035 --> 01:09:25,995
and so wanting to pursue my career
1110
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:29,290
has taken me a lot of work,
emotionally. You know,
1111
01:09:29,374 --> 01:09:33,002
I've had to exercise�muscles
that I didn't naturally have.
1112
01:09:33,086 --> 01:09:35,797
So, you know, being able
to speak up for myself,
1113
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,841
be louder than the person next to me
or be able to assert...
1114
01:09:39,342 --> 01:09:40,968
my voice in the room.
1115
01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:44,555
You know, those are things
that I really had to learn�the hard way
1116
01:09:44,639 --> 01:09:48,476
because I really care
about becoming a filmmaker.
1117
01:10:08,413 --> 01:10:13,418
The violin was something
that my parents had set up for me to have
1118
01:10:13,501 --> 01:10:15,503
when I was being a housewife
1119
01:10:16,129 --> 01:10:19,590
and raising children,
that I would have something for myself.
1120
01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:24,804
I gradually realized
and then I kept realizing that
1121
01:10:24,887 --> 01:10:26,264
that was myself...
1122
01:10:26,806 --> 01:10:29,434
the violin had been myself
from the beginning...
1123
01:10:30,143 --> 01:10:31,060
and...
1124
01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:33,312
And that I loved it.
1125
01:10:34,814 --> 01:10:36,607
I have a career now.
1126
01:10:36,691 --> 01:10:39,610
I have this amazing life.
1127
01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:49,412
And that picture of me...
1128
01:10:50,037 --> 01:10:54,333
is me beginning�to listen
to my inner voice.
1129
01:11:04,719 --> 01:11:06,512
When John and I got divorced,
1130
01:11:06,596 --> 01:11:08,556
I had never written a check in my life,
1131
01:11:08,848 --> 01:11:11,267
he cleaned out our bank accounts,
1132
01:11:11,350 --> 01:11:14,353
I never received any child support
1133
01:11:14,437 --> 01:11:16,731
and I never received any alimony.
1134
01:11:17,482 --> 01:11:19,484
I had to fight for my money,
1135
01:11:19,567 --> 01:11:21,486
money that I had already earned.
1136
01:11:22,403 --> 01:11:26,824
I was going to have
to take care of myself, of my life.
1137
01:11:28,910 --> 01:11:31,537
I came to this moment
1138
01:11:31,621 --> 01:11:33,164
where I said, "Never again.
1139
01:11:33,873 --> 01:11:36,042
This will never happen to me again."
1140
01:11:36,918 --> 01:11:38,169
And it never did.
1141
01:11:39,629 --> 01:11:43,007
TURTLE DREAMS (1983)
MEREDITH MONK
1142
01:11:48,262 --> 01:11:49,847
There was a time
1143
01:11:49,931 --> 01:11:54,060
that I did a number of pieces
that I would call apocalyptic pieces,
1144
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:57,980
where I felt that the artist's role
was to state the problem,
1145
01:11:58,064 --> 01:11:59,649
to be kind of mirror of the society.
1146
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:04,821
So, then I... I thought, "You know,
I'd rather offer a kind of antidote."
1147
01:12:23,631 --> 01:12:26,175
You could think of art
as healing in that way...
1148
01:12:26,467 --> 01:12:29,262
and that people do seem,
as far as I can tell,
1149
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:31,138
people do seem to be inspired by that.
1150
01:12:32,265 --> 01:12:37,228
I had the good fortune to perform
in Damascus in 2009 with my ensemble,
1151
01:12:37,478 --> 01:12:40,565
and I just love these people,
I loved my students so much
1152
01:12:40,648 --> 01:12:44,819
and I just loved the people that I met
in Damascus, the Syrian people.
1153
01:12:44,902 --> 01:12:46,445
So utterly generous.
1154
01:12:46,529 --> 01:12:49,031
I mean, I've gone
to 50 countries in my life,
1155
01:12:49,115 --> 01:12:52,702
but I think I will never forget that time
in Damascus as long as I live.
1156
01:12:53,369 --> 01:12:56,497
So, when the trouble
started happening in Syria,
1157
01:12:56,581 --> 01:12:58,749
I just was undone.
1158
01:13:02,795 --> 01:13:05,339
I would literally
listen to the radio and be sobbing.
1159
01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:12,054
And this happened also after 9/11.
1160
01:13:13,347 --> 01:13:15,683
We were all questioning,
"Why are we doing art?
1161
01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:18,102
I mean, what difference
does this make in the world?"
1162
01:13:19,687 --> 01:13:22,565
I think that when you are
doing something that you love...
1163
01:13:23,441 --> 01:13:28,195
it's like throwing a rock in the pool
because that love is hitting the pool
1164
01:13:28,279 --> 01:13:30,406
and then it starts radiating out...
1165
01:13:31,032 --> 01:13:33,492
and so, when you're doing
something that you love
1166
01:13:33,576 --> 01:13:37,038
and sharing it with other human beings,
you are doing something of benefit.
1167
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:45,004
HABEAS CORPUS (2015)
LAURIE ANDERSON
1168
01:13:48,466 --> 01:13:49,675
The last few things
1169
01:13:49,759 --> 01:13:52,762
that I've done, I've learned a lot
of things about the audience and one is,
1170
01:13:52,845 --> 01:13:57,183
never underestimate the audience
and what they can do with things.
1171
01:13:59,644 --> 01:14:02,355
I particularly found that in a work
I did a few months ago
1172
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:06,984
called Habeas Corpus, in which
my collaborator was Mohammed el Gharani,
1173
01:14:07,068 --> 01:14:09,487
who was
the youngest detainee at Guantanamo.
1174
01:14:10,529 --> 01:14:13,783
Most of the people in the United States
know more about Al Qaeda than this guy.
1175
01:14:13,866 --> 01:14:17,954
He's a kid who was studying computers
at his uncle's school in Pakistan
1176
01:14:18,037 --> 01:14:22,208
and for seven years, from the ages
of 14-21, we�tortured him
1177
01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:24,835
and did... very bad things.
1178
01:14:31,676 --> 01:14:33,135
I watched people...
1179
01:14:33,803 --> 01:14:36,305
looking at this, uh, statue,
1180
01:14:36,389 --> 01:14:38,265
and we had a camera that connected...
1181
01:14:38,891 --> 01:14:41,018
New York to West Africa, where he was.
1182
01:14:42,103 --> 01:14:44,730
I did see a number of people
who came up...
1183
01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:50,194
and made eye contact with this
on the delay to Africa and went...
1184
01:14:50,277 --> 01:14:52,613
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
1185
01:14:52,697 --> 01:14:53,781
I'm sorry.
1186
01:14:59,620 --> 01:15:02,665
I love taboos�and I love to see
how I can push them around
1187
01:15:02,748 --> 01:15:05,376
and make them interesting and visible,
1188
01:15:05,793 --> 01:15:07,670
um, because I think that, uh,
1189
01:15:08,045 --> 01:15:11,257
when you become aware of the rules,
it's easier to break them.
1190
01:15:11,340 --> 01:15:13,009
And... And to be free.
1191
01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:15,261
That's my main goal as an artist
is freedom.
1192
01:15:21,851 --> 01:15:25,062
There was this curator
at the Museum of Modern Art, a good guy,
1193
01:15:25,146 --> 01:15:27,189
and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum
1194
01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:31,235
who talked about when they were
in their respective positions,
1195
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:33,988
they were always trying
to bring women's work
1196
01:15:34,071 --> 01:15:35,865
to the acquisitions committee,
1197
01:15:35,948 --> 01:15:38,284
and they did in fact make...
1198
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:42,204
Have some successes,
as long as the work was small.
1199
01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:50,629
THE DINNER PARTY (1979)
JUDY CHICAGO
1200
01:15:54,508 --> 01:16:01,474
THE DINNER PARTY IS A SYMBOLIC HISTORY
OF WOMEN IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION
1201
01:16:04,351 --> 01:16:06,270
TOLD THROUGH CHINA-PAINTING AND
NEEDLEWORK.
1202
01:16:06,353 --> 01:16:09,315
VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
1203
01:16:14,195 --> 01:16:17,698
THE DINNER PARTY WAS EXHIBITED IN
SIXTEEN VENUES, IN SIX COUNTRIES,
1204
01:16:17,782 --> 01:16:21,577
ON THREE CONTINENTS,
1205
01:16:21,660 --> 01:16:26,373
TO A VIEWING AUDIENCE OF
OVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE
1206
01:16:26,457 --> 01:16:28,918
Look at this garbage.
1207
01:16:29,251 --> 01:16:31,295
Now we have this pornographic art.
1208
01:16:32,046 --> 01:16:35,091
I mean, three-dimensional ceramic art
1209
01:16:35,174 --> 01:16:39,970
of 39 women's, uh, vaginal area,
their genitalia
1210
01:16:40,054 --> 01:16:42,389
served up on plates
that requires a whole room.
1211
01:16:42,807 --> 01:16:46,519
In order to display weird, sexual art.
1212
01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:48,854
"Thirty-six thousand, five hundred
NEA money."
1213
01:16:48,938 --> 01:16:53,275
"Thirty-nine elaborate place settings
depicting female vaginas."
1214
01:16:53,526 --> 01:16:57,238
I'm a poet and I do have trouble with this
because it's not art,
1215
01:16:57,321 --> 01:16:59,657
it is not art. It's pornography.
1216
01:17:01,951 --> 01:17:07,206
During the period The Dinner Party
was being vilified...
1217
01:17:08,165 --> 01:17:11,752
for the first time,
I visited my father's grave in Chicago...
1218
01:17:12,336 --> 01:17:14,296
and I told him he had told me a lie.
1219
01:17:14,380 --> 01:17:17,675
That he had told me I could be myself
and be loved.
1220
01:17:23,264 --> 01:17:28,853
In the recent show in Spain,
Why Not Judy Chicago?,
1221
01:17:29,603 --> 01:17:34,024
the curator, Xabier Arakistain,
his premise
1222
01:17:34,483 --> 01:17:38,154
is that my career can be understood
1223
01:17:38,237 --> 01:17:40,197
around two concepts:
1224
01:17:40,281 --> 01:17:43,284
deficit and disobedience.
1225
01:17:44,326 --> 01:17:46,287
That is, that as a young woman,
1226
01:17:46,370 --> 01:17:51,792
I awoke to the deficit of information
on women's history,
1227
01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:53,335
woman's art,
1228
01:17:53,711 --> 01:17:57,798
women's experiences
in the cultural dialogue...
1229
01:17:58,340 --> 01:18:00,676
and I wanted to change that.
1230
01:18:01,135 --> 01:18:03,554
But in order to change it,
1231
01:18:03,929 --> 01:18:07,224
I had to become disobedient.
1232
01:18:07,808 --> 01:18:10,728
And he's right, I've been
a very disobedient woman.
1233
01:18:12,146 --> 01:18:17,276
If there is one message
that echoes forth from this conference,
1234
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:21,071
let it be that human rights
are women's rights
1235
01:18:21,155 --> 01:18:23,908
and women's rights are human rights
1236
01:18:23,991 --> 01:18:26,493
-once and for all.
1237
01:18:27,912 --> 01:18:31,373
That feminism has a future is inevitable.
1238
01:18:31,832 --> 01:18:34,877
It has seized
the imagination of the world.
1239
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:36,921
Lift your head up!
1240
01:18:37,004 --> 01:18:38,839
Egyptian women don't get stripped!
1241
01:18:38,923 --> 01:18:43,427
You have women under dire death threats
1242
01:18:43,510 --> 01:18:45,387
who are asserting their rights.
1243
01:18:46,639 --> 01:18:49,308
When you're discriminated against
as a woman,�when you're not allowed
1244
01:18:49,391 --> 01:18:52,603
to go to school in a country
because you're a woman...
1245
01:18:54,063 --> 01:18:57,274
or when you're shot
because you've gone to school...
1246
01:18:58,859 --> 01:19:01,946
then being a woman
is a primary part of your identity.
1247
01:19:02,529 --> 01:19:04,281
What's going to get you killed?
1248
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:07,451
The extremists...
1249
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:12,748
were and they are afraid
of books and pens.
1250
01:19:12,831 --> 01:19:15,334
The power of education frightens them.
1251
01:19:16,835 --> 01:19:18,837
They are afraid of women,
1252
01:19:19,546 --> 01:19:22,716
the power of the voice of women
frightens them.
1253
01:19:23,384 --> 01:19:26,262
Because there were and they are
1254
01:19:26,595 --> 01:19:28,013
afraid of change,
1255
01:19:28,097 --> 01:19:32,101
afraid of equality that we will bring
into our society.
1256
01:19:40,818 --> 01:19:41,819
That's gorgeous.
1257
01:19:49,868 --> 01:19:51,620
It's like an audacity.
1258
01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:55,040
I get it.
1259
01:19:56,458 --> 01:19:57,293
I get it.
1260
01:20:32,536 --> 01:20:35,873
As I have gotten older,
I have come back to where I started
1261
01:20:35,956 --> 01:20:39,626
as that feisty girl,
who would climb to the top of the oak tree
1262
01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:42,504
and lead armies up the hill
and knew who she was,
1263
01:20:42,588 --> 01:20:45,632
and would stand up to anything
and never told a lie.
1264
01:20:46,842 --> 01:20:50,763
That part of a lot of girls
goes way subterranean.
1265
01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:52,264
It's not that it disappears.
1266
01:20:52,348 --> 01:20:53,557
It doesn't get lost.
1267
01:20:54,141 --> 01:20:55,684
It goes underground.
1268
01:20:55,768 --> 01:20:57,686
And the goal of our lives...
1269
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,481
is to bring her back up.
1270
01:21:08,822 --> 01:21:10,824
I try not to focus too much
1271
01:21:11,241 --> 01:21:15,120
on how feminism has only moved
the world a little ways.
1272
01:21:15,204 --> 01:21:16,372
Because I see it...
1273
01:21:16,955 --> 01:21:19,041
in the next generation already.
1274
01:21:19,375 --> 01:21:20,709
The men I know...
1275
01:21:21,752 --> 01:21:23,754
who were raised by single mothers
1276
01:21:23,837 --> 01:21:25,172
are different men.
1277
01:21:26,340 --> 01:21:30,052
The young people
who don't care what race someone is...
1278
01:21:31,178 --> 01:21:32,346
are different people...
1279
01:21:33,347 --> 01:21:35,015
and we contributed to that.
1280
01:21:43,023 --> 01:21:46,902
In the feminist movement, you know,
politically correct is a good thing.
1281
01:21:47,236 --> 01:21:51,156
I didn't think it was fair
to just open the door�to every kind of,
1282
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:52,616
uh, you know...
1283
01:21:53,492 --> 01:21:55,452
prejudice and stereotype
1284
01:21:55,536 --> 01:21:58,997
and I just like to believe that
there's something higher that we could be.
1285
01:22:04,294 --> 01:22:08,757
Yes we can! Yes we can!
1286
01:22:08,841 --> 01:22:12,094
You know what? I'm done playing nice.
I'm done going along with...
1287
01:22:12,344 --> 01:22:13,554
the way things are.
1288
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:17,015
We're all uniting
and we're building solidarity
1289
01:22:17,099 --> 01:22:18,976
across these different struggles.
1290
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:24,690
Saying this is a woman's issue
and then this is an environmental issue,
1291
01:22:24,773 --> 01:22:26,567
we can't do that anymore,
1292
01:22:26,650 --> 01:22:28,152
because that still, again,
1293
01:22:28,235 --> 01:22:31,905
creates division, creates hierarchies.
And that's what patriarchy does.
1294
01:22:31,989 --> 01:22:34,825
EQUALITY FOR MY GRANDMA
MOTHER SISTER NIECE =
1295
01:22:38,704 --> 01:22:41,832
Women are raped, women are denigrated,
women are marginalized,
1296
01:22:42,291 --> 01:22:46,420
even in this... The glorious country
of Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty...
1297
01:22:47,296 --> 01:22:49,631
there are still hard things
about being a woman
1298
01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:52,426
and that's why we still need
a feminist movement
1299
01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:54,094
and must have a feminist movement.
1300
01:22:56,763 --> 01:22:58,765
NASTY MAN
1301
01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:03,937
LOVE WINS
1302
01:23:05,898 --> 01:23:09,234
All of us gained from the fact
that there was a women's movement.
1303
01:23:11,028 --> 01:23:13,489
It's how are we moving forward,
1304
01:23:13,572 --> 01:23:15,449
keeping our autonomy,
1305
01:23:15,532 --> 01:23:19,286
but realizing also
that we better find our way to each other.
1306
01:23:19,369 --> 01:23:20,829
We need each other
1307
01:23:20,913 --> 01:23:25,626
because we are all on this planet
and we are all in trouble right now.
1308
01:25:29,625 --> 01:25:36,590
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ALOMA ICHINOSE (1943-2018)107622
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