Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
Chinaka Hodge: Ce le vei spune fiicelor tale despre 2016?
Poet, playwright, filmmaker and educator Chinaka Hodge uses her own life and experiences as the backbone of wildly creative, powerful works. Full bio
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strewn about our morning papers,
împrăștiate în ziarele de dimineață,
of our sisters, spouses, small children.
ale surorilor, soților, copiilor.
when she asks, as she certainly should,
când va întreba, așa cum ar trebui,
we didn't own it outright.
arendării libertății, nu am avut-o pe loc.
for every way we used our privates
pentru cum să ne folosim privatele
pe părțile noastre moi,
that enforced them.
care le impuneau.
și să ne acoperim,
să așteptăm.
despre acest timp de război,
against the outlines of our fallen,
în fața contururilor celor căzuți,
and moved with courageous abandon
și ne-am mutat cu curaj
în care am privit pe țeava puștilor,
ne-am ferit și am parat,
ducked and parried,
collected death threats,
am colectat amenințări,
and found a running mate,"
e timpul să ne stabilim undeva”,
shamed nothing but fear,
am necinstit doar frica,
bineînțeles,
to be docile or small.
ca să fii docil sau mic.
that we were women,
că suntem femei,
jurământ de solidaritate.
and some of us did not,
altele nu,
dacă asta ne-a făcut reale
whether that made us real
or heir to your triumph,
al triumfului tău,
teetering towards woman,
șovăind spre a fi femeie,
Were you fearful or fearsome?
Ai fost temătoare sau de temut?
in the year it was time?
în anul în care venise timpul?
which bones had to break?
pentru calea ce mi-ai creat-o?
about the arc of your brow,
already carried so much, wants to know
atâtea, vrea să știe
what light did you keep from extinction?
ca flacără ai ferit de stingere?
or were you roused?
what did you do with your privilege?
a expirat, ce ai făcut cu dreptul tău?
sau direct spre flacără?
or directly into the flame?
sau ai luat-o ca pe o datorie?
or treat it like a liability?
of "nasty" or "less than"?
„scârbos” sau „insuficient”?
or a clenched fist?
sau cu pumnul strâns?
„Fata mea, am fost acolo
drawn on my face like a dagger,
in spite of crooked odds.
în ciuda sorții necinstite.
și mereu, mereu în compania curajului,
in the company of courage,
when you just had yourself.
în care ai fost singură.
and the sisters beside them,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chinaka Hodge - Writer, educatorPoet, playwright, filmmaker and educator Chinaka Hodge uses her own life and experiences as the backbone of wildly creative, powerful works.
Why you should listen
Chinaka Hodge is a writer and educator from Oakland. She received her BA from NYU’s Gallatin School and studied Writing for Film and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts MFA program. Her work has been featured in Believer Magazine, Teen People Magazine, Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, on PBS and NPR, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry. She was an Associate Producer on Simmons Lathan presents Brave New Voices for HBO.
She is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, was a playwright-in-residence at SF Playwrights Foundation and serves as a Visiting Editor at The California Sunday Magazine. She is an inaugural Senior Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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