Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa: Black life at the intersection of birth and death
موئندا «فریکونسی» کاتویوا: زندگی سیاهان در تقاطع تولد و مرگ
Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa is a storyteller, a truth-teller, a builder and breaker trying to figure out what it means to be human in a world that removes so much of our humanity in order to survive. Full bio
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about Reproductive Justice.
بازآوری عدالت شنیدم.
کار میکردم،
was defined by Sister Song as:
خواهر سانگ اینطور تعریف کرده:
if and when she will have a baby
به بچه دار شدن و زمان اتفاق آن
under which she will give birth.
to decide if she will not have a baby
or ending a pregnancy.
یا پایان بارداری.
to parent the children she already has
نگهداری از بچههایی که دارد
all about the joys of motherhood.
weave wonder into this world.
با شگفتی تنیده میشد.
for something so big, so early.
نقشه بکشی ضرری ندارد.
to stomach motherhood in this country.
مادر شدن در این کشور را دارم.
has taught me more about parenting
درباره موضوع
give birth to babies
that this body will birth kin
همخونی که متولد شود
to be held in prison cells
about being Black in America
to raise my kids right
و زنده نگه داشتن
because it is wrong,
چون کار غلطی است
to justify his death?
مرگش استفاده خواهند کرد؟
for his Skittles and sweet tea
و کلوچهاش را میپردازد
who will watch him
and not wait for them to come.
و منتظر آمدنش نمیمانند.
when I consider calling 911.
خیلی یاد شان بلز میافتم.
that they will not come and kill my son.
و پسرم را میکشد.
of the nooses,
when they murder Black boys
میکشند و اجسادشان را
for four hours in the sun.
یاد مجازات اعدام میافتم.
about being Black in America
از خواب بیدار شوم
of last week's story.
هفته گذشته ببینم.
از خواب بیدار شوم و بفهمم
wouldn't even be newsworthy.
is the only Black woman
تنها زن سیاه پوستی است
more than our silence.
dark-skinned daughters in distress
دیگر چطور
بخاطر بیاوریم؟
between the lives of your genders?
زندگیهای جنسیتی شما نمیگنجند؟
nothing is a great protector
بدنیا بیایید که
that looks like this.
مراقبت نخواهد کرد.
about being Black in America
I look forward to.
about dead Black children to be naïve
سیاه مرده نوشتهام تا درباره این حقیقت
be a poem written about my kids.
بچههای خودم وجود داشته سادهلوح باشم.
who gave birth to poems.
که به شعرها جان میدهد.
who doesn't fit into this world.
که در این دنیا نمیگنجد.
who will live forever
about art and performance.
about Black Lives Matter.
«زندگی سیاهان اهمیت دارد» بوده.
about Reproductive Justice.
my inability to separate the two.
در تفکیک این دو از هم است.
when Trayvon Martin was murdered.
وقتی تریون مارتین به قتل رسید.
actually values Black life.
ارزش قائل است.
and healthy communities
or the state or government.
was not held responsible
تریون مارتین
in the United Stated of America
the Reproductive Justice framework
بازآوری عدالت
about Reproductive Justice
in the Movement for Black Lives,
سیاههان ادامه دادم
to see and feel these similarities.
شباهتها را ببینند و احساس کنند.
آدمها را بهم وصل کند؟
داستانهایی که مردم
از خاک بیرون بیاورند.
to remain silent.
ساکت بمانند.
portion from my talk,"
از سخنرانی خود حذف کنم،»
our stories were being denied
که استحقاق گفته شدن دارد.
they deserve to be told on.
the words I had just spoken.
که قبلش گفتم.
to remain silent.
به ساکت ماندن نمیگیرند.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa - Writer, youth worker, freedom fighterMwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa is a storyteller, a truth-teller, a builder and breaker trying to figure out what it means to be human in a world that removes so much of our humanity in order to survive.
Why you should listen
Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa is a Kenyan Queer Womyn speaker and performer. Katwiwa is an award-winning, internationally touring poet, author, host, youth worker, social-justice speaker, teaching artist and workshop leader who has spent her life at the intersection of arts, education and activism. Her work in Reproductive Justice, the Movement for Black Lives, LGBTQ+ advocacy and poetry have been featured on Upworthy, OkayAfrica, the New York Times, For Harriet, Everyday Feminism and more.
As a writer, Katwiwa has always centered storytelling as an avenue to create change and believes in "speaking things into existence." Her work is heavily influenced by her heritage and her pan-African upbringing, and centers "the other" and "the in between," places she has often found herself occupying as a black, queer immigrant and emigrant. Her experience of the power of words and stories to impact the lives of those sharing and receiving has pushed her to share and teach the craft as a tool of resistance and advocacy.
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