TEDxWomen 2012
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
iO Tillett Wright: Petdeset odtenkov homoseksualnosti
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Umetnica iO Tillett Wright je fotografirala 2.000 ljudi, ki se vidijo na neheteroseksulnem spektru, in mnogo izmed njih vprašala: "Ali lahko oceniš z odstotki, kako homoseksualen ali heteroseksualen si?" Izkazalo se je, da se večina ljudi vidi kot del sivega območja seksualnosti, in ne 100% homoseksualno ali heteroseksualno. To je resen problem, kar se tiče diskriminacije. Kje se potegne črto?
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iO Tillett Wright - Photographer
As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist. Full bio
As a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist. Full bio
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00:16
Human beings start putting each other into boxes
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Ljudje opredeljujemo druge ljudi
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the second that they see each other --
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takoj, ko se zagledamo.
00:20
Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?
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Ali je ta oseba nevarna? Ali je privlačna?
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Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?
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Ali je potencialni partner?
Ali je potencialna možnost za navezovanje stikov?
Ali je potencialna možnost za navezovanje stikov?
00:27
We do this little interrogation when we meet people
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Ko nekoga spoznamo, jih malce izprašamo,
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to make a mental resume for them.
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da bi naredili nekakšen namišljeni življenjepis.
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What's your name? Where are you from?
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Kako ti je ime? Od kod si?
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How old are you? What do you do?
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Koliko si star? Kaj počneš?
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Then we get more personal with it.
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Potem postanemo bolj osebni.
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Have you ever had any diseases?
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Ali si kdaj imel kako bolezen?
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Have you ever been divorced?
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Ali si se kdaj ločil?
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Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?
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Ali ti med mojimi vprašanji smrdi iz ust?
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What are you into? Who are you into?
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Kaj te zanima? Kdo te zanima?
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What gender do you like to sleep with?
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S katerim spolom imaš rad spolne odnose?
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I get it.
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Razumem.
00:54
We are neurologically hardwired
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Nevrolško smo programirani,
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to seek out people like ourselves.
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da iščemo ljudi podobne nam samim.
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We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough
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Skupine oblikujemo takoj, ko smo dovolj stari
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to know what acceptance feels like.
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da vemo, kaj pomeni biti sprejet.
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We bond together based on anything that we can --
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Povežemo se na podlagi, česarkoli se lahko;
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music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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glasbenega okusa, rase, spola, ulice, kjer smo odrasli.
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We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.
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Iščemo okolja, ki potrjujejo naše osebne odločitve.
01:17
Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"
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Včasih pa samo vprašanje "Kaj počneš?"
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can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box
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lahko da občutek, da nekdo odpira majhno škatlico
01:21
and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.
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in te prosi, da se stisneš vanjo.
01:23
Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.
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Ugotovila sem namreč,
da so te kategorije preveč omejujoče.
da so te kategorije preveč omejujoče.
01:26
The boxes are too narrow.
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Škatle so premajhne.
01:28
And this can get really dangerous.
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In to je lahko zelo nevarno.
01:30
So here's a disclaimer about me, though,
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Najprej nekaj o meni
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before we get too deep into this.
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preden zabredemo preveč globoko.
01:34
I grew up in a very sheltered environment.
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Odrasla sem v zelo varnem okolju.
01:37
I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,
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Vzgojena sem bila v Manhattnu v zgodnjih 80-ih
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two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.
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le dve ulici stran od epicentra panka.
01:44
I was shielded from the pains of bigotry
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Prihranjena mi je bila bolečina nazadnjaštva
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and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
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in socialnih omejitev, ki jih da verska vzgoja.
01:51
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker
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Če pri nas nisi bil transvestit ali radikalec
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or a performance artist of some kind,
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ali nekakšen umetnik,
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you were the weirdo.
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si bil ti čudak.
01:58
(Laughter)
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(smeh)
01:59
It was an unorthodox upbringing,
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Bila je neobičajna vzgoja,
02:01
but as a kid on the streets of New York,
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a, če si otrok na ulicah New Yorka,
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you learn how to trust your own instincts,
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se naučiš zaupati lastnim instinktom,
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you learn how to go with your own ideas.
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naučiš se, kako se držati svojih idej.
02:09
So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.
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Ko sem bila stara šest, sem se odločila,
da hočem biti fantek.
da hočem biti fantek.
02:12
I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.
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Nekega dne sem šla v šolo in otroci mi niso pustili,
da bi z njimi igrala košarko.
da bi z njimi igrala košarko.
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They said they wouldn't let girls play.
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Rekli so, da puncam ne pustijo.
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So I went home, and I shaved my head,
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Šla sem domov, si obrila glavo
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and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."
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in naslednji dan prišla v šolo ter rekla: "Fant sem."
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I mean, who knows, right?
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Mislim, kdo ve, kajne?
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When you're six, maybe you can do that.
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Morda lahko to storiš, ko si star šest let.
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I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
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Nisem hotela, da bi kdo vedel, da sem dekle, in niso.
02:30
I kept up the charade for eight years.
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To igrico sem nadaljevala osem let.
02:32
So this is me when I was 11.
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To sem jaz, ko sem bila stara 11.
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I was playing a kid named Walter
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Igrala sem fantka po imenu Walter
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in a movie called "Julian Po."
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v filmu z naslovom "Julian Po".
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I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.
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Bila sem mali ulični silak,
ki je sledil naokrog in težil Christianu Slaterju.
ki je sledil naokrog in težil Christianu Slaterju.
02:43
See, I was also a child actor,
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Bila sem tudi otroška igralka,
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which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,
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kar je podvojilo možnosti igralske identitete,
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because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
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ker nihče ni vedel, da sem pravzaprav dekle, ki igra fanta.
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In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --
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Pravzaprav ni nihče v mojem življenje vedel, da sem dekle;
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not my teachers at school, not my friends,
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ne moji učitelji v šoli, ne moji prijatelji,
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not the directors that I worked with.
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ne direktorji, s katerimi sem delala.
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Kids would often come up to me in class
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Otroci so pogosto prišli do mene v razredu
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and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple
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in me zgrabili za grlo, da bi našli Adamovo jabolko,
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or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.
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ali za mednožje, da bi videli, kaj imam tam spodaj.
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When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls
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Ko sem šla na stranišče, sem čevlje obrnila naokrog,
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so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.
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da bi bilo videti, kot da lulam stoje.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks
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Na pižama žurih sem imela napade panike,
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trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me
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ko sem dekletom poskusila razložiti, da me nočejo poljubiti,
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without outing myself.
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ne da bi se izdala.
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It's worth mentioning though
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Potrebno je omeniti,
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that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.
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da nisem sovražila svojega telesa ali spolnih organov.
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I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.
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Nisem se počutila, kot da sem v napačnem telesu.
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I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.
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Počutila sem se, kot da sem izvajala zapleteno točko.
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I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.
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Ne bi rekla, da sem zamenjala spol.
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If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,
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Če bi moja družina verjela v terapijo,
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they probably would have diagnosed me
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bi me verjetno diagnosticirali
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as something like gender dysmorphic
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s telesno dismorfijo
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and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.
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in mi dali hormone, da bi odložili puberteto.
03:42
But in my particular case,
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V mojem primeru pa
03:43
I just woke up one day when I was 14,
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sem se nekega dne, ko mi je bilo 14 let, zbudila
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and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.
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in se odločila, da želim zopet biti dekle.
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Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,
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Začela se je puberteta in pojma nisem imela,
kaj pomeni biti dekle,
kaj pomeni biti dekle,
03:50
and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
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a pripravljena sem bila ugotoviti, kdo dejansko sem.
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When a kid behaves like I did,
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Ko se otrok vede, kot sem se jaz,
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they don't exactly have to come out, right?
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jim ni treba priznati, kdo so, kajne?
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No one is exactly shocked.
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Pravzaprav ni nihče zares presenečen.
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(Laughter)
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(smeh)
04:04
But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
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A moji starši niso zahtevali od mene, da se definiram.
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When I was 15, and I called my father
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Ko sem bila stara 15, sem poklicala očeta,
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to tell him that I had fallen in love,
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da bi mu povedala, da sem se zaljubila.
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it was the last thing on either of our minds
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Zadnja stvar, ki jo je hotel katerikoli izmed nas,
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to discuss what the consequences were
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je bila razpravljati o posledicah,
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of the fact that my first love was a girl.
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da je bila moja prva ljubezen dekle.
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Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,
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Ko sem se tri leta kasneje zaljubila v moškega,
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neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
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ni prav tako noben od mojih staršev bil šokiran.
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See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood
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To je eden izmed najlepših delov
mojega neobičajnega otroštva;
mojega neobičajnega otroštva;
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that I wasn't ever asked to define myself
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da nikoli niso zahtevali, da se definiram
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as any one thing at any point.
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kot karkoli in to kadarkoli.
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I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.
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Dovolili so mi, da sem jaz,
da neprestano rastem in se razvijam.
da neprestano rastem in se razvijam.
04:35
So four, almost five years ago,
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Štiri, skoraj pet let nazaj,
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Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,
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se je zaradi predloga 8 in debate o enakovrednem zakonu
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was raising a lot of dust around this country.
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dvignilo veliko prahu po tej državi.
04:43
And at the time, getting married wasn't really something
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Takrat poroka ni bila nekaj,
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I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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o čemur bi veliko razmišljala.
04:47
But I was struck by the fact that America,
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Presenetilo pa me je, da bi Amerika,
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a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,
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država, ki ima tako zaznamovano
zgodovino s človekovimi pravicami,
zgodovino s človekovimi pravicami,
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could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
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lahko tako nesramno ponavljala svoje napake.
04:55
And I remember watching the discussion on television
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Spomnim se, da sem na televiziji spremljala debato
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and thinking how interesting it was
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in razmišljala, kako zanimivo je,
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that the separation of church and state
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da je delitev cerkve in države
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was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,
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po celi državi risala geografske meje
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between places where people believed in it
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med kraji, kjer so ljudje verjeli vanjo
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and places where people didn't.
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in kjer niso.
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And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
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In še, da je ta razprava risala meje v moji okolici.
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If this was a war with two disparate sides,
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Če je bila to vojna med dvema različnima stranema,
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I, by default, fell on team gay,
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sem bila jaz jasno v gej ekipi,
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because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
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ker nisem bila 100-odstotno hetero.
05:24
At the time I was just beginning to emerge
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Takrat sem ravno prihajala
05:27
from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag
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iz te osemletne krize identitete,
05:31
that saw me go from being a boy
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v kateri sem se iz fanta
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to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes
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spremenila v to nerodno dekle,
ki je bilo v dekliških oblačilih videti kot fant,
ki je bilo v dekliških oblačilih videti kot fant,
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to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,
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nato v popoln ekstrem pomanjkljivo oblečeno,
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over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl
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preveč zavzeto, punčkasto dekle, ki je na lovu za fanti,
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to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,
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in končno v obotavljivo raziskovanje pravega sebe;
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a tomboyish girl
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fantovskega dekleta,
05:48
who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
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ki so ji bili všeč tako fantje kot dekleta; odvisno od osebe.
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I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,
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Eno leto sem fotografirala to novo generacijo deklet,
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who fell kind of between-the-lines --
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ki so bile nekako med mejama;
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girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,
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dekleta s skejtbordi, ki nosijo čipkasto perilo,
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girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,
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dekleta s fantovskimi pričeskami,
a s punčkastim lakom za nothe
a s punčkastim lakom za nothe
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girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,
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dekleta, katerih ličenje se je ujemalo z opraskanimi koleni,
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girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls
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dekleta, ki so jim všeč fantje in dekleta,
in fantje, ki so jim všeč fantje in dekleta,
in fantje, ki so jim všeč fantje in dekleta,
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who all hated being boxed in to anything.
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ki so sovražili, da jih nekdo opredeljuje.
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I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,
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Rada sem imela te ljudi, občudovala njihovo svobodo,
06:17
but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble
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a zunaj našega utopičnega mehurčka sem videla,
06:20
exploded into these raging debates
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kako so na svetu eksplodirale te divje debate,
06:22
where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
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v katerih so kritiki na javni televiziji
našo ljubezen enačili z bestialnostjo.
našo ljubezen enačili z bestialnostjo.
06:27
And this powerful awareness rolled in over me
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In močno sem se zavedla,
06:30
that I was a minority, and in my own home country,
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da sem v svoji domovini del manjšine
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based on one facet of my character.
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zaradi ene plasti mojega karakterja.
06:38
I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.
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Zakonsko in neoporekljivo sem bila drugorazredni državljan.
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I was not an activist.
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Nisem bila aktivistka.
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I wave no flags in my own life.
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V življenju nisem nikoli mahala z zastavo.
06:47
But I was plagued by this question:
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A napadlo me je naslednje vprašanje:
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How could anyone vote to strip the rights
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kako lahko kdorkoli glasuje za odvzem pravic
06:52
of the vast variety of people that I knew
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velikim količinam ljudem, ki jih poznam,
06:55
based on one element of their character?
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zaradi enega elementa njihove osebnosti?
06:58
How could they say that we as a group
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Kako lahko rečejo, da si mi kot skupina
07:00
were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?
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ne zaslužimo enakih pravic, kot kdorkoli drug?
07:02
Were we even a group? What group?
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Ali smo sploh bili skupina? Katera skupina?
07:05
And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?
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In ali so te ljudje kadarkoli
zavestno spoznali žrtev svoje diskriminacije?
zavestno spoznali žrtev svoje diskriminacije?
07:09
Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
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Ali so vedeli, proti komu glasujejo in kakšen je bil učinek?
07:13
And then it occurred to me,
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In potem se mi je posvetilo,
07:15
perhaps if they could look into the eyes
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da bi morda, če bi lahko pogledali v oči
07:17
of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship
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tistih, ki so jih označili kot drugorazredne državljane,
07:21
it might make it harder for them to do.
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to otežilo stvari.
07:23
It might give them pause.
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Morda bi jih ustavilo.
07:25
Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,
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Jasno ne bi mogli na eno zabavo povabiti 20 milijonov ljudi,
07:30
so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically
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zato sem poiskala način, kako bi jih lahko predstavila
drug drugemu s fotografijami,
drug drugemu s fotografijami,
07:35
without any artifice, without any lighting,
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brez izumetničenosti, brez osvetljave,
07:38
or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
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ali kakršnekoli manipulacije z moje strani.
07:41
Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers
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Ker lahko na fotografiji proučuješ levje brke,
07:44
without the fear of him ripping your face off.
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ne da bi te bilo strah, da te bo raztrgal.
07:46
For me, photography is not just about exposing film,
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Zame fotografija ni le razvijanje filma,
07:50
it's about exposing the viewer
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je izpostavljanje gledalca
07:52
to something new, a place they haven't gone before,
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nečemu novemu, kraju, kjer še niso bili,
07:54
but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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a, kar je najbolj pomembno, ljudem, ki se jih morda bojijo.
07:57
Life magazine introduced generations of people
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Revija Life je generacijam ljudi pokazala
07:59
to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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oddaljene kulture, za katere niso vedeli,
da obstajajo, skozi fotografije.
da obstajajo, skozi fotografije.
08:03
So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,
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Odločila sem se narediti serijo zelo preprostih portretov,
08:09
mugshots if you will.
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kot nekakšne policijske fotografije.
08:11
And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country
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In odločila sem se, da bom fotografirala
kogarkoli v tej državi,
kogarkoli v tej državi,
08:15
that was not 100 percent straight,
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ki ni bil 100-odstotno hetero,
08:17
which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
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kar, če ne veste, je nešteto ljudi.
08:20
(Laughter)
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(smeh)
08:23
So this was a very large undertaking,
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To je bil zelo velik podvig
08:25
and to do it we needed some help.
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in, da bi ga izvedla, sem potrebovala pomoč.
08:27
So I ran out in the freezing cold,
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V peklenskem mrazu sem šla ven
08:30
and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to
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in fotografirala vsako osebo,
za katero sem vedela, da bi jih lahko dobila
za katero sem vedela, da bi jih lahko dobila
08:33
in February of about two years ago.
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februarja dve leti nazaj.
08:37
And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.
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Posnela sem fotografije in prosila za pomoč
Kampanjo za človekove pravice.
Kampanjo za človekove pravice.
08:41
And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.
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Dali so sredstva za dvotedensko snemanje v New Yorku.
08:43
And then we made this.
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Naredili smo to.
08:46
(Music)
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(glasba)
08:59
Video: I'm iO Tillett Wright, and I'm an artist born and raised in New York City.
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Video: Sem iO Tillett Wright in sem umetnica.
Rodila sem se in odrasla v New Yorku.
Rodila sem se in odrasla v New Yorku.
09:03
(Music)
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(glasba)
09:16
Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.
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Samoumevna resnica je fotografski zapis združenja Neheteroseksualcev Amerike.
09:21
My aim is to take a simple portrait
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Moj cilj je narediti preprost portret
09:23
of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight
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vseh, ki so manj kot 100-odstotno hetero,
09:25
or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
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ali se jim zdi, da kakorkoli spadajo
v neheteroseksualen spekter.
v neheteroseksualen spekter.
09:30
My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us
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Moj cilj je pokazati človeštvo, ki obstaja v vsakem izmed nas,
09:33
through the simplicity of a face.
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s pomočjo preprostosti obraza.
09:36
(Music)
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(glasba)
09:38
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
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"Za nas so samoumevne resnice,
da so vsi ljudje ustvarjeni enaki."
da so vsi ljudje ustvarjeni enaki."
09:41
It's written in the Declaration of Independence.
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To je zapisano v Deklaraciji neodvisnosti.
09:44
We are failing as a nation
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Kot narodu nam ne uspeva
09:45
to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
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spoštovati vrednote, na katerih smo bili ustanovljeni.
09:47
There is no equality in the United States.
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V ZDA ni enakosti.
09:49
["What does equality mean to you?"]
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["Kaj zate pomeni enakost?"]
09:52
["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]
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["Poroka"]["Svoboda"]["Človekove pravice"]
09:53
["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]
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["Da z vsakim ravnaš, kot bi ravnal s seboj"]
09:55
It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
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Če o tem niti ne premišljuješ, tako preprosto je.
09:59
The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
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Pri boju za enake pravice se ne gre le za istospolni zakon.
10:02
Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,
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Danes je v 29 državah, več kot v polovici ZDA,
10:06
you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.
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zakonsko dovoljeno odpustiti nekoga
samo zaradi njihove spolne usmerjenost.
samo zaradi njihove spolne usmerjenost.
10:10
["Who is responsible for equality?"]
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["Kdo je odgovoren za enakost?"]
10:13
I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:
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Na stotine ljudi mi je dalo enak odgovor:
10:16
"We are all responsible for equality."
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"Mi vsi smo odgovorni za enakost."
10:20
So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.
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V New Yorku smo do sedaj posneli 300 obrazev.
10:23
And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it
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In tega ne bi mogli storiti
10:24
without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.
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brez radodarne pomoči Kampanje za človekove pravice.
10:27
I want to take the project across the country.
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Ta projekt bi rada razširila na celo državo.
10:29
I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
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Rada bi obiskala 25 ameriških mest in posnela od 4.000 do 5.000 ljudi.
10:33
This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
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To je moj prispevek boju
moje generacije za človekove pravice.
moje generacije za človekove pravice.
10:37
I challenge you to look into the faces of these people
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Izzivam vas, da pogledate obraze teh ljudi
10:39
and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.
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in jim rečete, da si zaslužijo manj kot drugi ljudje.
10:42
(Music)
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(glasba)
10:44
["Self evident truths"]
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["Samoumevna resnica"]
10:46
["4,000 faces across America"]
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["4.000 obrazov po Ameriki"]
10:48
(Music)
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(glasba)
10:53
(Applause)
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(aplavz)
11:01
iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.
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Nič nas ne bi moglo pripraviti na to,
kar se je zgodilo potem.
kar se je zgodilo potem.
11:05
Almost 85,000 people watched that video,
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Skoraj 85.000 ljudi si je pogledalo ta video
11:08
and then they started emailing us from all over the country,
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in s cele države so nam začeli pošiljati e-pošto
11:11
asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.
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ter nas prositi, da pridemo k njim in pokažemo njihov obraz.
11:16
And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.
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Veliko več ljudi, kot sem pričakovala,
je hotelo pokazati svoj obraz.
je hotelo pokazati svoj obraz.
11:20
So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.
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Spremenila sem svoj cilj na 10.000 obrazov.
11:24
That video was made in the spring of 2011,
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Ta video smo posneli spomladi leta 2011
11:28
and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities
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in do danes sem obiskala skoraj 20 mest
11:31
and photographed almost 2,000 people.
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in forografirala skoraj 2.000 ljudi.
11:34
I know that this is a talk,
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Vem, da je to pogovor,
11:37
but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet
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a rada bi minuto tišine,
11:40
and have you just look at these faces
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da si lahko ogledate obraze,
11:41
because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
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ker nič, kar bom rekla, ne bo dodalo vrednosti.
11:45
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,
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Če je slika vredna tisoč besed,
11:48
then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
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potrebuje slika obraza popolnoma novo besedišče.
12:12
So after traveling and talking to people
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Po tem, ko smo potovali in se pogovarjali z ljudmi
12:16
in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,
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v krajih, kot so Oklahoma ali majhna mesteca v Teksasu,
12:20
we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
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smo našli dokaz, da je bila začetna predpostavka
popolnoma pravilna.
popolnoma pravilna.
12:24
Visibility really is key.
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Vidnost je ključna.
12:25
Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.
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Spoznavanje vodi do empatije.
12:29
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,
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Ko se na vašem domu ali v vaši družini pojavi težava,
12:32
you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it
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je veliko bolj verjetno, da boste poiskali sočutje
12:35
or explore a new perspective on it.
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ali novo perspektivo.
12:37
Of course, in my travels I met people
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Jasno sem na svojih potovanjih spoznala ljudi,
12:39
who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,
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ki so se odrekli svojim otrokom,
ki niso bili heteroseksualni,
ki niso bili heteroseksualni,
12:43
but I also met people who were Southern Baptists
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a spoznala sem tudi ljudi, ki so konservativni verniki
12:46
who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
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in so zamenjali cerkev, ker je bila njihova hči lezbijka.
12:49
Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.
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Ustvarjanje empatije je postala hrbtenica
Samoumevne resnice.
Samoumevne resnice.
12:53
But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:
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A naučila sem se nekaj zelo zanimivega:
12:56
Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.
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samoumevna resnica ne izbriše razlik med nami.
13:01
In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
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Obratno, še poudari jih.
13:04
It presents, not just the complexities
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Predstavi ne le kompleksnost
13:06
found in a procession of different human beings,
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v vrsti različnih ljudi,
13:08
but the complexities found within each individual person.
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a tudi kompleksnost znotraj vsakega posameznika.
13:12
It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.
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Problem ni bil, da smo imeli preveč opredelitev,
premalo smo jih imeli.
premalo smo jih imeli.
13:23
At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,
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V nekem trenutku sem ugotovila,
da je moja misija fotografiranja gejev zelo napačna,
da je moja misija fotografiranja gejev zelo napačna,
13:30
because there were a million different shades of gay.
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ker obstaja milijon različnih odtenkov gejev.
13:33
Here I was trying to help,
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Želela sem jim pomagati,
13:36
and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --
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a sem ustvarila prav to,
čemur sem sem se celo življenje izogibala:
čemur sem sem se celo življenje izogibala:
13:39
yet another box.
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še eno škatlico.
13:41
At some point I added a question to the release form
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V nekem trenutku sem na obrazec dodala vprašanje,
13:45
that asked people to quantify themselves
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ki je ljudi spraševala, da se ocenijo
13:46
on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
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po lestvici od 1 do 100 procentov, koliko so gej.
13:49
And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.
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Pred menoj se je odvilo mnogo eksistencialnih kriz.
13:53
(Laughter)
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(smeh)
13:56
People didn't know what to do
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Ljudje niso vedeli, kaj bi,
13:57
because they had never been presented with the option before.
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ker se še nikoli niso soočili s to možnostjo.
14:00
Can you quantify your openness?
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Ali lahko s številko oceniš svojo odprtost?
14:02
Once they got over the shock, though,
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Ko pa so preboleli šok,
14:04
by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent
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se je večina odločilaz a nekje med 70 in 95 odstotkov
14:08
or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
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ali za možnost med 3 in 20 odstotkov.
14:10
Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,
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Seveda se je veliko ljudi odločilo za 100 odstotkov,
14:13
but I found that a much larger proportion of people
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a ugotovila sem, da je veliko večji del ljudi
14:15
identified as something that was much more nuanced.
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izbral nekaj, ki je imelo odtenek.
14:18
I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as "Grey."
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Ugotovila sem, da večina ljudi spada v spekter,
ki sem ga poimenovala "siv".
ki sem ga poimenovala "siv".
14:25
Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --
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Naj vam bo jasno, to je pomembno,
14:29
in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.
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niti slučajno ne trdim, da ne obstaja preferenca.
14:33
And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,
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In ne bom se lotila problema izbire in biološke obveze,
14:38
because if any of you happen to be of the belief
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ker, če morda kdo izmed vas verjame,
14:41
that sexual orientation is a choice,
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da je spolna usmerjenost izbira,
14:43
I invite you to go out and try to be grey.
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vas vabim, da tvegate in poskusite biti sivi.
14:44
I'll take your picture just for trying.
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Fotografirala vas bom že, če poskusite.
14:47
(Laughter)
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(smeh)
14:48
What I am saying though is that human beings are not one-dimensional.
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Kar govorim, je, da ljudje nismo enodimenzionalni.
14:52
The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:
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Najpomembnejše je,
da si iz tega sistema odstotkov zapomnite:
da si iz tega sistema odstotkov zapomnite:
14:58
If you have gay people over here
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če so na tej strani homoseksualci
15:00
and you have straight people over here,
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in na tej strani heteroseksualci
15:04
and while we recognize that most people identify
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in, čeprav se zavedamo, da se veliko ljudi vidi
15:07
as somewhere closer to one binary or another,
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bolj v eni skupini kot v drugi,
15:10
there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.
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obstaja ogromen spekter ljudi, ki spadajo vmes.
15:15
And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.
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In resničnost, ki se s tem pojavi, je zelo zapletena.
15:18
Because, for example, if you pass a law
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Ker, če na primer potrdite zakon,
15:20
that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,
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ki dovoljuje šefu, da lahko odpusti svojega uslužbenca,
ker je ta homoseksualec,
ker je ta homoseksualec,
15:23
where exactly do you draw the line?
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kje točno potegnete črto?
15:26
Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?
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Je tu, kjer so ljudje, ki so do sedaj imeli
eno ali dve heteroseksualni izkušnji?
eno ali dve heteroseksualni izkušnji?
15:32
Or is it over here
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Ali je tu,
15:33
by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?
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kjer so ljudje, ki so do sedaj imeli
eno ali dve homoseksualni izkušnji?
eno ali dve homoseksualni izkušnji?
15:37
Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?
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Kdaj točno nekdo postane drugorazredni državljan?
15:42
Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels
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Še ena zanimiva stvar,
ki sem se jo naučila iz mojih potovanj in projekta,
ki sem se jo naučila iz mojih potovanj in projekta,
15:47
is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.
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je, kako slabo povezuje spolna usmerjenost.
15:51
After traveling so much and meeting so many people,
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Toliko sem prepotovala in spoznala toliko ljudi
15:54
let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts
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in naj vam povem, ravno toliko kretenov in prisrčnih ljudi
15:57
and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens
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kot demokratov in republikancev, kot športnikov in princesk,
16:00
and every other polarization you can possibly think of
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in vseh drugih nasprotovanj, kot si jih lahko izmislite,
16:03
within the LGBT community
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je znotraj neheteroseksualne skupnosti,
16:05
as there are within the human race.
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kot jih je znotraj človeške rase.
16:09
Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,
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Če pozabite, da igramo z eno roko
z zakonom zvezano za hrbtom,
z zakonom zvezano za hrbtom,
16:14
and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,
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in pustite ob strani skupne zgodbe o predsodkih in boju,
16:17
just being other than straight
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to da nismo heteroseksualni,
16:19
doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.
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še ne pomeni, da imamo kaj skupnega.
16:24
So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,
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Samoumevna resnica postaja vedno večji nabor obrazov
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as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,
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in upam, da se bo pojavila na vedno več platformah;
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bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,
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avtobusnih postajah, plakatih,
Facebook straneh, ohranjevalnikih zaslona ...
Facebook straneh, ohranjevalnikih zaslona ...
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perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,
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Morda se bo med gledanjem tega človeškega sprevoda
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something interesting and useful will begin to happen.
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zgodilo nekaj zanimivega in uporabnega.
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Hopefully these categories, these binaries,
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Upam, da bodo te kategorije, te spremenljivke,
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these over-simplified boxes
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te preveč preproste škatle,
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will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.
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postale neuporabne in začele izginjati.
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Because really, they describe nothing that we see
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Ker v resnici ne opišejo ničesar, kar vidimo,
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and no one that we know and nothing that we are.
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nikogar, ki ga poznamo, in ničesar, kar smo.
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What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.
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Vidimo ljudi v celoti.
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And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.
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In če jih vidimo, težko zanikamo njihovo človeštvo.
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At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
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Upam, da to vsaj oteži zanikanje njihovih človekovih pravic.
17:17
So is it me particularly
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Ali bi prav meni
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that you would choose to deny the right to housing,
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odvzeli pravico do domovanja,
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the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,
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do posvajanja otrok, do poroke,
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the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?
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do nakupovanja tu, do življenja tu, do kupovanja tu?
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Am I the one that you choose to disown
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Ali si boste izbrali mene, da me razlastite
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as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,
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kot otroka, kot brata, kot sestro, kot mamo ali očeta,
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your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,
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kot soseda, bratranca, sestrično, strica, predsednika,
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your police woman or the fireman?
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policistko ali gasilca?
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It's too late.
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Prepozno je.
17:46
Because I already am all of those things.
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Ker sem že vse izmed teh reči.
17:50
We already are all of those things, and we always have been.
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Vse smo vse izmed teh stvari, vedno smo bili.
17:54
So please don't greet us as strangers,
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Ne pozdravite nas kot tujce,
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greet us as your fellow human beings, period.
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pozdravite nas kot soljudi in le to.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
iO Tillett Wright - PhotographerAs a child actor, iO Tillett Wright turned his shoes around in the bathroom stall so that people would think he was a boy. As a teenager, he fell in love with both women and men. His life in the gray areas of gender and sexuality deeply inform his work as an artist.
Why you should listen
iO Tillett Wright thanks his parents for not asking him to define himself as a child. His experience of growing up without having check boxes like “female,” “male,” “gay” or straight” thoroughly infuses his art.
iO’s photography can be seen regularly in two features in The New York Times: Notes from the Underground and The Lowdown. He is also the creator of Self Evident Truths—an ongoing project to document the wide variety of experiences in LGBTQ America. So far, he has photographed about 2,000 people for the project. His goal: 10,000 portraits and a nationwide rethinking of discriminatory laws.
iO had his first solo show at Fuse gallery in New York City in 2010, and exhibited his work at The Hole Gallery in early summer of 2012. He has published three books of photographs; Lose My Number, KISSER, and Look Ma’, No Hands. He has directed several music videos, and spent nineteen years acting in films.
iO Tillett Wright | Speaker | TED.com