WEBVTT - You Can't Ban Queer Joy

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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<v Speaker 1>Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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<v Speaker 1>I am so excited. Why because it is June. It

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<v Speaker 1>is June first, which means that it is the beginning

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<v Speaker 1>of LGBTQ Pride Month. Now, if you've been listening to

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<v Speaker 1>wok at for the past couple of years, then you

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<v Speaker 1>know that I take Pride very very seriously and I

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<v Speaker 1>try to use the month to showcase performers, entertainers, academics, authors, activists,

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<v Speaker 1>all who are members of the LGBTQ community, as well

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<v Speaker 1>as bring you conversations and the issues that are most

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<v Speaker 1>impacting the community. This Pride, however, has me filled with

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<v Speaker 1>a mix of emotions, which is what brings me to

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<v Speaker 1>the title of this month and the theme for this

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<v Speaker 1>month on WOKF, which is you can't ban queer Joy.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot ban queer joy. And why did we choose

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<v Speaker 1>to run with this? Because what we are witnessing happen

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<v Speaker 1>across this country is a wave of hate that I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think that we have seen since the beginning of

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<v Speaker 1>Pride celebrations, which began as a riot at Stonewall in

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen sixties, led by black, trans women and queer

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<v Speaker 1>people who had had enough of being bullied and beaten

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<v Speaker 1>by police on a regular basis, and on that night

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<v Speaker 1>they fought back. One year on this show, we did

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<v Speaker 1>Pride as a Riot as a reminder of the founding

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<v Speaker 1>of Pride that we have seen in many ways become

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<v Speaker 1>commercialized and corporatized over the past several decades. Why because

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<v Speaker 1>before the entirety of the Budweiser and the Target debacle,

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<v Speaker 1>we saw corporations decide that they're gonna rainbow things up

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<v Speaker 1>for the month of June, they'll ignore you for the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the year. And as a black queer woman,

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<v Speaker 1>I can tell you they basically have done to Pride

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<v Speaker 1>what they do to Black History Month, which is, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>let us go all in for these you know, thirty

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<v Speaker 1>days or twenty eight days or what have you. And

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<v Speaker 1>then we're not actually conscious about how we create products,

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<v Speaker 1>how we create real inclusion and belonging in our marketing

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<v Speaker 1>right in both our internal and external work that we're

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<v Speaker 1>doing with these companies, and as we are seeing folks,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Target succumb to the whims and grievances of

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<v Speaker 1>white cis hetero fucking homophobes and transphobes in this country,

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<v Speaker 1>as we're seeing Budweiser do the same and lose money

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<v Speaker 1>because you know, their aggressive, toxic white cis quote unquote

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<v Speaker 1>masculine men have decided that you know, what gets in

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<v Speaker 1>the way of their masculinity, and apparently the ability to

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<v Speaker 1>drink a beer is knowing that queer people too drink

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<v Speaker 1>that same fucking American beer. It's so sick and twisted.

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<v Speaker 1>What's happening, you know, I likened it the other day

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<v Speaker 1>to this like whole rampage around Target, right as me

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<v Speaker 1>walking in as a person who eats meat and says,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, they're selling vegan meat here, They're selling

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<v Speaker 1>vegan baked goods here, and just going in and tossing

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<v Speaker 1>over the fucking kitchen area of Target because I'm a

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<v Speaker 1>meat eater and now I feel infringed upon. That's how

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<v Speaker 1>fucking stupid these people sound. That's how fucking dumb. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't like the pride shit at Target, don't fucking buy it, right,

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<v Speaker 1>It's the same thing that I said, you know, a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago on Twitter. You don't like the

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<v Speaker 1>books that are in certain libraries, don't check them out.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't like the books that are being read in

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<v Speaker 1>a school that you don't even have children that are

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<v Speaker 1>attending in Like, look the other fucking way. This is

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<v Speaker 1>a country with lots of different people who look differently,

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<v Speaker 1>pray differently, love differently, and think differently. That is supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be the beauty and foundation of a democracy. You

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<v Speaker 1>wanna go live right in a theocrisy, then go someplace

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<v Speaker 1>fucking else. But what you're not gonna do is that

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<v Speaker 1>you're not gonna continue to try and decimate our feeling

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<v Speaker 1>of self work right, You're not gonna continue to decimate

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<v Speaker 1>our feeling of pride, of what it means to live

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<v Speaker 1>authentically in our skin and show up in our day

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<v Speaker 1>to day lives. So for the month of June and

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<v Speaker 1>from here until the end of fucking time, you're not

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<v Speaker 1>gonna ban queer joy. You're not gonna ban but black joy.

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<v Speaker 1>Because we have a right to exist, and not just

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<v Speaker 1>in the small, narrow, pale, miserable little bubble that white cis. Hetero, racist, homophobic,

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<v Speaker 1>transphobic pieces of trash want to exist. And yes I

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<v Speaker 1>will call names because if you don't like somebody, here's

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<v Speaker 1>an idea. Don't fuck with them, right, don't go to

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<v Speaker 1>the Drag Bengos show, don't go to the library at

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<v Speaker 1>drag story time. But you don't get to create the

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<v Speaker 1>reality for the rest of us. And this is why

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta tell you, folks that this Pride season is

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<v Speaker 1>so fucking important. You know, there was a time where

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<v Speaker 1>I think that I had gotten complacent myself because I

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<v Speaker 1>have lived only only lived in blue states and cities

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<v Speaker 1>for most of my life. Even growing up out East

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<v Speaker 1>on Long Island. It was not quote unquote Maga country

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<v Speaker 1>and Trump country when I grew up. It was democratic

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<v Speaker 1>right the entire time, working class and middle class Americans

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<v Speaker 1>right of all different persuasions. That's who the fuck lived

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<v Speaker 1>out East on Long Island. Yes, we're there are incidences

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<v Speaker 1>of race and racism, absolutely, because we live in America

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<v Speaker 1>that is a racist country, that fucking you know, white

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<v Speaker 1>supremacy flows through the Fawcetts. At that same time, you

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<v Speaker 1>could ask me, did you ever feel unsafe growing up? No?

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<v Speaker 1>I did not. Did ever feel racism, yeah, up, so

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<v Speaker 1>fucking lutely, But did I feel unsafe? Did I feel unwanted? No?

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<v Speaker 1>It hasn't been folks, until the last seven years that

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<v Speaker 1>when I go out east on Long Island and I

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<v Speaker 1>see these fucking tattered Trump flags flying everywhere, that I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I had no idea that the neighbor two doors down

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<v Speaker 1>was a racist. I had no idea right that the

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<v Speaker 1>neighborhood that I frequently walked in and played in as

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<v Speaker 1>a kid was filled with a bunch of homophobes in Transphil.

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<v Speaker 1>I had no idea, right. And so what Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and magaism has done is give permission for people to

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<v Speaker 1>put their hoods on right, fly their fucking racist flags,

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<v Speaker 1>beat their yes, and I ask those people, right, how

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<v Speaker 1>is your life better over the last seven years? I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just curious what Donald Trump and magadon has actually done

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<v Speaker 1>to better the lives of their most loyal, fucking rabid followers.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you richer? Right? Like? Were you able to buy

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<v Speaker 1>a home off of your hate? Are you happier? Because

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<v Speaker 1>what's wild is that these people seem more miserable than

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<v Speaker 1>fucking ever because guess what, holding and spewing so much

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<v Speaker 1>hate and toxicity and taking that QAnon and fox in

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<v Speaker 1>every day all day, all it does is corrode your insides.

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<v Speaker 1>They'll learn that later on, right, because to be actually

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<v Speaker 1>conscious to the ways in which you are holding such

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<v Speaker 1>horrible negativity that your glory in life right now is

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<v Speaker 1>to ensure that other people suffer more. It's just it

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<v Speaker 1>is a wild, wild place to exist. And you see

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<v Speaker 1>the thing that I understand and what I have understood

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<v Speaker 1>to be true about the LGBTQ plus community in this

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<v Speaker 1>country and around the world. And why you have groups

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<v Speaker 1>of people that are so full of hate and you

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<v Speaker 1>know so much so that they will act violently towards

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<v Speaker 1>the queer community. Is this? The queer community is bold,

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<v Speaker 1>exists outside of the box, decided right when folks came

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<v Speaker 1>out that we're not going to follow the prescribed fucking

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<v Speaker 1>rules that we don't even know who created them or

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<v Speaker 1>why outside of your ability to control. You see the

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<v Speaker 1>reason why cis hetero, anti trans and anti queer folks

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<v Speaker 1>act the way that they fucking do is out of

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<v Speaker 1>pure fucking fear. What does it mean? What does their

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<v Speaker 1>life mean when they've followed the rules and suppressed their

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<v Speaker 1>own feelings and their own desires, and now here you

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<v Speaker 1>come as a mirror into who they could have been

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<v Speaker 1>if they had courage enough. That's what that is about,

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<v Speaker 1>because it takes a whole hell of a lot more

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<v Speaker 1>bravery and courage to show up as your true fucking

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<v Speaker 1>self than it does to go along with the fucking pack,

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<v Speaker 1>to step out and say this is who I am,

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<v Speaker 1>and have the audacity to demand that those around you

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<v Speaker 1>treat you with the dignity and respect that you deserve,

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<v Speaker 1>even if you don't fall into their uniform idea of

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<v Speaker 1>what it means to be a man or a woman

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<v Speaker 1>who made up the rules, And why the fuck does

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<v Speaker 1>everybody have to look and act and be and love

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<v Speaker 1>and pray and exist in the same fucking way. The

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<v Speaker 1>last time I checked, we're not robots yet. The last

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<v Speaker 1>time I checked, Elon Musk didn't implant us all with neuralink.

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<v Speaker 1>The last I checked. That the God that these people

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<v Speaker 1>say that they worship also gave free will, the will

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<v Speaker 1>to live and be and exist as free as you

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<v Speaker 1>want to be, And that is what these people fear.

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<v Speaker 1>They're banning books right, changing curriculum, because the power that

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<v Speaker 1>we have is in our ability to think and live free,

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<v Speaker 1>to challenge the systems they can't stand. Generation zenare trying

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<v Speaker 1>to rob them of their autonomy, of their ability to

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<v Speaker 1>think and exist because they have the tools in their

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<v Speaker 1>pockets and they're not afraid to ask the questions that

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<v Speaker 1>these motherfuckers don't have the answers to. So instead of

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<v Speaker 1>actually having to answer to this rising and growing constituency,

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<v Speaker 1>they say, we're gonna shut them down. We're gonna take

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<v Speaker 1>away their access to education, We're gonna take away critical thought.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna make them turn on each other and hate

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<v Speaker 1>each other so much so we can usher in this

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<v Speaker 1>straw man. Queer liberation is about the pushback against that

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<v Speaker 1>fucking heteronormative lie, gender fucking bias. Why does a woman

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<v Speaker 1>have to look and act a certain way? Why does

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<v Speaker 1>a man have to look and act a certain way?

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<v Speaker 1>The queer community pushes back against those quote unquote stereotypical norms,

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<v Speaker 1>and they make everyone else around them start to question

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<v Speaker 1>the why why have we been going along with this?

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<v Speaker 1>Why have we accepted this as the way? Why can't

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<v Speaker 1>close just be closed? Why can't toys just be toys?

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<v Speaker 1>Why do things need to be pink or blue? Who

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<v Speaker 1>said we need both the blend of masculine and femininity,

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<v Speaker 1>We need right to recreate this idea of humanness? What

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<v Speaker 1>it means to value people outside of the is that

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<v Speaker 1>you can put them in. Why do you need to

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<v Speaker 1>quote unquote understand me in order to respect my humanity.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not asking for your tolerance. I'm not even asking

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<v Speaker 1>for your understanding. I'm asking for you to get the

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<v Speaker 1>fuck out of our way, to honestly live and let live.

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<v Speaker 1>So part of me is always going to be about

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<v Speaker 1>the fight, is always going to be about literally raging

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<v Speaker 1>against the machine. The other part of me, though, is

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<v Speaker 1>steeped in the fucking joy of the thing, because there

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<v Speaker 1>is nothing that these people hate more, These fucking narrow minded, conservative,

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<v Speaker 1>bigoted people hate more than queer joy, than black then

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<v Speaker 1>bipoc joy, then people being proud of who they are,

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<v Speaker 1>how they look, who they love, how they pray, and

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<v Speaker 1>embodying it to the fullest extent. You can throw as

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<v Speaker 1>much hate and as much lies at me as possible,

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<v Speaker 1>but you are not going to steal my humanity, not

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<v Speaker 1>my dignity. So what I ask for all of you,

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<v Speaker 1>whether or not you are queer, in this month of June,

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<v Speaker 1>is to find a way to support LGBTQ youth who

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<v Speaker 1>are truly struggling during this time. Because the Republican Party

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<v Speaker 1>is trying to paint a future that they don't see

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<v Speaker 1>themselves in. So, whether it is that you look at

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<v Speaker 1>an organization like Family Quality, you look at an organization

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<v Speaker 1>like Glisten p HRC, your local organizations that are queer focused.

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<v Speaker 1>If you have the resources, donate, if you have the time, volunteer.

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<v Speaker 1>I just saw today that my own Brooklyn Public Library

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<v Speaker 1>is going to provide library cards to teens outside of

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<v Speaker 1>Brooklyn who can actually check out e books. Right So,

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<v Speaker 1>for that kid that is living in Florida that can't

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<v Speaker 1>access the books that they want from the library and

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<v Speaker 1>it's too expensive to be buying them and shipping them

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<v Speaker 1>to their home, they can now check out e books

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<v Speaker 1>from the Brooklyn Library. Help those kids find a way,

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<v Speaker 1>help them make a way out of nowhere, Help them

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<v Speaker 1>understand that not all cis hetero people hate them. What

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<v Speaker 1>we need to do this month and every single month

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<v Speaker 1>is about building community to combat the hate that is

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<v Speaker 1>raining down on this country. The LGBTQ community deserves more.

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<v Speaker 1>Queer youth deserve more than what is happening, and we

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<v Speaker 1>can all do better to make sure that queer joy

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<v Speaker 1>is not banned. So find a way to excise your

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<v Speaker 1>power and take up space this fucking month. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are queer, if you live at the intersection of marginalized communities,

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<v Speaker 1>take up fucking space. And for those that are allies,

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<v Speaker 1>do your best to find ways to support, to donate,

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<v Speaker 1>to volunteer, to let queer youth know, and queer people

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<v Speaker 1>in your own community know they are not fighting this

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<v Speaker 1>fire alone, that you are there with them, because you

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<v Speaker 1>know that queer people are often the canaries in the

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<v Speaker 1>coal mine, as was said to me recently, first they

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<v Speaker 1>go after them, then they go after everybody else. Don't

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<v Speaker 1>let that be the case. Not this month of June,

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<v Speaker 1>and not any fucking month. Now is the time to

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<v Speaker 1>get off of the sidelines and to put yourself, your life,

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<v Speaker 1>and your future on the line for our democracy, for

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<v Speaker 1>all communities that are under attack. I look forward to

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<v Speaker 1>this month of June on wokf with each and every

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<v Speaker 1>single one of you. That is it for me today,

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<v Speaker 1>dear friends, on as always, power to the people and

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<v Speaker 1>to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke

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<v Speaker 1>as fuck. H