ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Felice Belle - Poet, playwright, pop culture enthusiast
Felice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.

Why you should listen

Felice Belle is a poet, playwright and pop culture enthusiast. She has performed at Joe’s Pub, the Apollo Theater and the American Museum of Natural History. Belle was a featured poet at TED’s City2.0 conference and her young audiences play, Game On!, premiered at the Kennedy Center as part of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival.

Belle co-wrote and performs alongside Jennifer Murphy in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what’s fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.

Belle holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, an M.A. in Individualized Study from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island University. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.

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Jennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined.

Why you should listen

Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award honoring excellence in multicultural literature, she has performed at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Knitting Factory and The Nuyorican Poets Café, among other performance venues. Murphy also maintains a parallel career as a private investigator, specializing in online investigations and threat monitoring for high-consequence events.

Murphy co-wrote and performs alongside Felice Belle in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what's fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.

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TEDWomen 2017

Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy: How we became sisters

Felice Belle e Jennifer Murphy: Como nós nos tornamos irmãs

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As poetas Felice Belle e Jennifer Murphy realizam trechos de sua obra "Outras Mulheres", que foi criada e dirigida por Monica L. Williams. Através de uma jornada cativante, elas tecem juntas histórias cheias de risos, lealdade, tragédia e comoção, lembrando os momentos que as tornaram irmãs.
- Poet, playwright, pop culture enthusiast
Felice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes. Full bio - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined. Full bio

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Chris Waddel: Felice Bell
e Jennifer Murphy
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Chris Waddell: Felice Bell
and Jennifer Murphy
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vão fazer um extrato
de sua peça "Outras Mulheres",
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are going to do an excerpts
from their play "Other Women,"
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que foi criada e dirigida
por Monica L. Williams,
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which is created and directed
by Monica L. Williams,
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so please welcome Felice Bell
and Jennifer Murphy.
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então, recebam com aplausos
Felice Bell e Jennifer Murphy.
00:25
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
00:29
(Music)
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(Música)
00:41
Felice Bell: Gambling.
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Felice Bell: Jogatina.
00:44
Quit your job.
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Deixe seu emprego,
00:46
With no savings and a rough sketch
of the rest of your life.
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sem economias e sem ideia
de como será o resto de sua vida.
00:52
Withdraw money from your 401K,
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Saque dinheiro do seu plano
de aposentadoria privada,
00:55
pay the penalty, why wait?
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pague a multa, por que esperar?
00:58
In this economy, everything you own
is worth more than it will ever be.
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Na economia atual,
tudo que você tem vale mais do que nunca.
01:05
Cut your hair, call yourself "new,"
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Corte seu cabelo, se defina como "nova",
01:08
call your ex, call Robin,
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ligue para seu ex, ligue para a Robin,
01:11
tell her you bought a ticket to the Bay.
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dizendo que comprou
uma viagem para a praia.
01:14
Paso Robles road trip,
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Viaje de carro para Paso Robles,
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wine taste,
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deguste vinhos,
01:18
buy a Malbec and a tight red tee,
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compre um Malbec
e uma camiseta vermelha justa,
01:20
eat a cookie from an LA dispensary,
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coma um biscoito de um dispensário
em Los Angeles,
01:23
chain-smoke around
bed and breakfast hillside fire pit
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fume sem parar na fogueira de uma pousada
01:27
with San Diego newlyweds
and vineyard view.
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com recém-casados de San Diego
e com vista para as vinícolas.
01:30
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
01:32
Go to the water with your girls
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Vá para a água com suas amigas
01:35
and grease-stained
bags of burgers.
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com embalagens engorduradas
de hambúrgueres.
01:38
Sit on driftwood.
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Sente-se num tronco flutuante à beira-mar.
01:40
Sunset.
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Pôr do sol.
01:42
Remember you folded.
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Lembre-se de que você
descartou sua jogada.
01:45
Remember your place.
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Lembre-se do seu lugar.
01:49
Spend the night in Reno.
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Passe a noite em Reno.
01:50
Resent the safety of the slots,
sit at the blackjack table,
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Fruste-se com os caça-níqueis,
sente-se à mesa do 21,
01:55
hand the dealer rent, retirement,
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dê ao crupiê o seu aluguel, aposentadoria,
01:57
pray God cares enough to pony up an ace.
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reze para que Deus te dê um às.
02:01
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
02:03
Leaving.
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Partindo.
02:04
Lunch on Lake Tahoe, they say, is deep
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Um almoço no Lago Tahoe, dizem,
é fundo e frio o bastante
para manter um corpo intacto.
02:07
and cold enough to preserve a body whole.
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02:11
Railroad workers, mafia, military
and possibly a monster like Loch Ness --
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Ferroviários, a máfia, os militares
e até mesmo um monstro como do Lago Ness,
02:17
no one can prove it.
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ninguém pode provar.
02:18
Ignore the math.
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Ignore a matemática.
02:20
Odds are a distraction.
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Probabilidades são uma distração.
02:24
What matters is the chip count.
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O que importa é a contagem das fichas.
02:28
The cards on the table,
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As cartas na mesa,
02:30
the cards in your hand.
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as cartas na sua mão.
02:32
You must be willing to lose.
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Você deve estar disposta a perder.
Jennifer Murphy:
Quando o sonho era uma ideia,
02:42
Jennifer Murphy:
When the dream was a notion,
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02:44
it lived in the desert
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ele vivia no deserto
02:45
near Edwards Air Force Base,
where NASA tested space ships.
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perto da Base Aeronáutica Edwards,
onde a NASA testava espaçonaves.
02:51
It fed on cactus and stars,
but it kept being delayed.
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Ele se alimentava de cactos e estrelas,
mas continuava sendo adiado.
02:55
"It's not time," they said.
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"Não chegou a hora", diziam.
02:58
The dream grew impatient,
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O sonho foi ficando impaciente,
03:00
broke water, extracted from its mother
in a bed of wrecked strawberries.
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quebrou a água, extraiu-se de sua mãe
numa cama de morangos destruídos.
03:06
As a teenager, it cried,
took endless drives over the grapevine
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Na adolescência, ele chorava,
fazia infinitos percursos sobre a videira
03:11
out of a town ripe
with oranges and silence,
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para fora da cidade madura
com laranjas e silêncio:
03:14
"Get me out of here," it begged.
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"Me tirem daqui", implorava.
03:18
It was so tiny and delicate,
you feared for its life.
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Ele era tão pequeno e delicado,
que você temia por sua vida.
03:22
It seemed a butterfly might land
on its face and crush it.
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Parecia que uma borboleta podia
pousar em seu rosto e destruí-lo.
03:27
It frightened you
to love something so much.
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Dava medo amar algo tanto assim.
03:30
Later it rebelled, got drunk,
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Mais tarde, ele se rebelou, se embebedou,
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handcuffed for urinating whiskey
on your neighbor's rose bushes.
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foi algemado por urinar uísque
nas roseiras do seu vizinho.
03:36
The dream had issues, needs.
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O sonho tinha problemas, necessidades.
03:39
"Don't ignore me," it screamed.
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"Não me ignorem", gritava.
03:42
It needed skyscrapers and nicotine,
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Ele precisava de arranha-céus e nicotina,
03:45
needed to stay home
reading the "Easter Parade"
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precisava ficar em casa
lendo "Easter Parade",
03:48
instead of going to its job
as a waitress at a restaurant
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ao invés de ir para seu trabalho
de garçonete num restaurante
03:51
where it could not afford the food.
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onde não conseguia bancar a comida.
03:53
It was a dream, for Christ's sake,
it had better things to do.
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Pelo amor de Deus, era um sonho
e tinha coisas melhores a fazer.
03:57
It had to write, pray,
dispatch fleets of messages to God
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Tinha que escrever, rezar,
enviar muitas mensagens para Deus
04:02
about how to make
itself known in daylight.
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sobre como ser reconhecido à luz do dia.
04:06
All its life, the dream made plans.
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Por toda sua vida, o sonho fez planos.
04:10
It planned to write,
publish, get rich, publish,
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Planejou escrever, publicar,
ficar rico, publicar,
04:13
have sex with reckless, attractive men
in the backseats of taxis,
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fazer sexo com homens bonitos
e ousados no banco traseiro de táxis,
04:17
yes, that happened -- no, it didn't.
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sim, isso aconteceu - não, não aconteceu.
04:21
The dream argued with itself,
with the truth.
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O sonho discutia consigo mesmo,
com a verdade.
04:24
You didn't have the dream,
the dream had you.
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Você não tinha o sonho,
o sonho tinha você.
04:27
Every single one
of its plans fell through.
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Cada um de seus planos deu errado.
04:31
"I give up," it cried, "I quit."
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"Eu desisto", ele chorava, "eu me rendo".
04:34
Hid itself in the dark until finally
it heard its name being called.
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Escondido no escuro até finalmente
ouvir seu nome sendo chamado.
04:41
Pondered the unspeakable miracle
of sticking around long enough to be seen.
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Ponderou o milagre inefável de resistir
o suficiente para ser visto.
04:48
Now it looks around for the ones
who've waited years for its arrival.
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Agora, ele procura por aqueles
que esperaram sua chegada por anos.
04:55
They always come for you,
don't they, your girls?
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Eles sempre te acham, não é, suas garotas?
04:59
With their crossed fingers
and belief in you,
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Com os dedos cruzados e fé em você,
05:02
"No destination," they say,
"No maps, no idea where we're headed."
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"Sem destino", elas dizem,
"Sem mapas e sem ideia para onde vamos."
05:09
And even though you
cannot believe this is happening,
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E mesmo você não acreditando
que seja verdade,
05:14
even though you are
hallucinating with fear,
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mesmo estando alucinada de medo,
05:17
you hear yourself say it,
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você se ouve dizendo:
"Estou pronta, estou pronta, vamos!"
05:19
"I am ready, I am ready, let's go!"
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05:28
FB: Episode one.
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FB: Episódio um.
05:30
JM: Everyone always wants to know
how we became sisters.
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JM: Todos sempre querem saber
como nós nos tornamos irmãs.
05:34
"How did you two meet?"
Like we're a married couple.
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"Como vocês se conheceram?",
como se fossemos um casal.
05:37
I like to say we met online.
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Gosto de dizer que nos conhecemos online.
05:39
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
05:40
FB: We met at the Nuyorican
Poets Café in 1999.
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FB: Nós nos conhecemos
no Café Nuyorican Poets em 1999.
05:45
Every Friday night of our young lives
spent in the audience or on the mic.
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Toda sexta à noite de nossa juventude
passada na plateia ou no palco.
05:50
Miss one Friday, and you would hear
about the poet who killed it.
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Se perdesse uma sexta, você ouvia
sobre o poeta que detonou.
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You should have been there!
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Você não devia ter faltado!
05:55
JM: I killed it.
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JM: Eu detonei!
05:56
FB: The night I met Jen, she was sitting
on the lap of my archnemesis.
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FB: Na noite que conheci Jen,
sentada no colo do meu arqui-inimigo,
06:02
I swear we are never going to be friends.
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jurei que jamais seríamos amigas.
06:07
JM: Really?
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JM: Verdade?
06:08
We are not going to be friends
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Nós não seremos amigas
06:10
because I'm friends
with someone you don't like?
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porque sou amiga de alguém
que você não gosta?
06:13
FB: Absolutely. Without a doubt.
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FB: Com certeza, sem dúvidas.
06:15
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
06:16
JM: Misdemeanor one: menacing.
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JM: Delito número um: ameaça.
06:19
I love it when women
size me up and spit me out
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Adoro quando mulheres me julgam
06:22
before they've ever met me,
before I've said one word.
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antes mesmo de me conhecer,
ou ouvir minha voz.
06:25
The phrase "dismissed
before investigation" comes to mind.
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A frase "dispensada
sem investigação" vem à mente.
06:29
Misdemeanor two: fraud.
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Delito número dois: fraude.
06:32
Felice likes to claim
she believes in science and math,
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A Felice afirma que acredita
na ciência e matemática,
06:36
that she proceeds through life
with logic, like a man.
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que usa a lógica para a vida,
"como um homem".
06:39
Lot of logic in this example,
lot of fairness and justice,
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Muita lógica e justiça nesse exemplo,
uma atitude de alguém com mente aberta.
06:43
real open-minded play.
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06:45
Felice is not a detective,
she only plays one onstage.
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A Felice não é uma detetive,
ela só se faz de uma no palco.
06:49
And when I say that,
I say it as a private investigator,
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E posso dizer isso na condição
de investigadora particular,
06:52
licensed in the state of New York.
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licenciada no estado de Nova York.
06:54
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
06:56
FB: Sherlock Holmes
doesn't need a license.
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FB: Sherlock Holmes
não precisa de uma licença.
06:59
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
07:00
He solves crime. So do I.
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Ele soluciona crimes e eu também.
07:03
Using science and my intuition.
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Usando a ciência e minha intuição.
07:06
Everything I know about
detective work, I learned on TV.
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Tudo que sei sobre investigação,
eu aprendi na TV.
07:08
JM: Episode two.
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JM: Episódio dois.
07:11
How we became sisters.
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Como nos tornamos irmãs.
07:13
FB: Right, so about a year later,
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FB: Então, um ano depois disso,
07:14
Jen and I were invited to read poems
in the basement of Two Boots pizzeria.
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eu e a Jen fomos recitar poemas
no porão da Pizzaria Two Boots.
07:19
JM: Our careers had taken off!
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JM: Nossas carreiras tinham decolado!
07:21
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
07:22
FB: After the pizzeria reading,
we have a slice.
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FB: Depois dos poemas, comemos uma pizza.
07:26
I don't know why, but I tell her
something I hadn't told anyone.
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Não sei porquê, mas conto a ela
algo que não havia contado a ninguém.
07:30
I spent the weekend in Reno
with Nacho Velasquez.
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Eu passei o fim de semana em Reno
com o Nacho Velasquez.
07:34
First thing she says --
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E a primeira coisa que ela diz...
07:35
JM: Did you see Nacho's little nacho?
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JM: Você viu o "pequeno nacho" do Nacho?
07:38
FB: And we were friends.
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FB: E ficamos amigas.
07:40
JM: That --
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(Risos)
07:41
(Laughter)
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07:42
That is not how I remember it.
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Não é assim que eu me lembro.
07:45
In my mind, we became friends
after I was diagnosed with cancer.
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Para mim, nós ficamos amigas
após eu ser diagnosticada com câncer.
07:50
You came with me to Sloan Kettering,
because my family wasn't handy.
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Você foi comigo ao Sloan Kettering,
porque minha família não estava por perto.
07:53
FB: OK, let's hear that version.
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FB: Certo, vamos ouvir essa versão.
07:55
JM: So, we walk into Sloan Kettering,
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JM: Nós entramos em Sloan Kettering,
07:58
and I have never seen my sister happier.
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e eu nunca tinha visto
minha irmã tão feliz.
08:02
Reminder: we are at the cancer hospital.
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Lembrete: estávamos no hospital do câncer.
08:06
There are people limping by
with carved faces and missing ears.
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Havia pessoas mancando,
com rostos emaciados e sem orelhas.
08:11
FB: This place has everything.
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FB: Este lugar tinha de tudo.
08:14
There is a waterfall, there are orchids,
little packets of graham crackers.
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Tinha uma cachoeira, orquídeas
e pacotinhos de biscoitos.
08:18
JM: I am sitting in the waiting room,
sweating through my dress,
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JM: Eu estava sentada na sala de espera,
suando dentro do vestido,
08:22
she's making herself a cappuccino.
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e ela fazia um cappuccino para ela.
08:24
FB: It's delicious.
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FB: É delicioso.
08:25
JM: I cannot handle you right now.
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JM: Eu não posso lidar com você agora.
08:29
FB: Episode three.
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FB: Episódio três.
08:32
JM: Six years after we first met.
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JM: Seis anos após nos conhecermos.
08:36
FB: My childhood best friend dies.
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FB: Meu melhor amigo de infância morre.
08:40
The day of his wake
there is a transit strike.
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No dia do velório dele, houve
uma greve do transporte público.
08:46
Jen walks from Cobble Hill
to Crown Heights
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A Jen veio a pé de Cobble Hill
até Crown Heights
08:52
so she can go with me.
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para ir comigo.
08:54
There are moments that bond,
and this one is key.
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Existem momentos que unem,
e esse foi um importante.
08:58
When there is no train,
no car service, no bus,
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Mesmo sem haver trem, táxi ou ônibus,
09:03
my sister will walk miles
just to be by my side.
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minha irmã caminhou quilômetros
só para ficar ao meu lado.
09:09
JM: When a sister loves a sister.
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JM: Quando uma irmã ama a outra.
09:14
When she says, "It's time for bibimbap,"
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Quando ela diz: "É hora de bibimbap",
09:17
she means, "I need to talk,
I'm having a meltdown."
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ela quer dizer: "Preciso conversar,
estou muito nervosa".
09:20
And when she says,
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E quando ela diz:
09:21
"Did you sleep with my man,
Nacho Velasquez,"
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"Você dormiu com meu homem,
Nacho Velasquez?"
09:25
she means, "I'm having trust issues
around our friendship again.
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Ela quer dizer: "Estou confusa
sobre nossa amizade de novo.
09:28
You are supposed to know this."
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Você deveria saber disso".
09:29
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
09:30
FB: When a sister loves a sister,
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FB: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
09:32
you are in Crown Heights
and she is in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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você está em Crown Heights
e ela em Bedford-Stuyvesant.
09:35
Or you're in Spain, sipping absinthe,
and she is in Paris, writing.
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Ou você está na Espanha, tomando absinto,
e ela está em Paris, escrevendo.
09:40
Or you are in your apartment,
sun-glassed and hoodied,
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Ou você está no seu apartamento,
de óculos escuros e moletom,
09:43
creating new choreography
to the right soundtrack.
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criando uma nova coreografia
para uma trilha sonora.
09:46
JM: While you're home
having flashbacks to 9/11,
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JM: Enquanto você está em casa
lembrando-se do 11 de setembro,
09:49
listening to the last call of your friend,
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ouvindo a última chamada do seu amigo,
um bombeiro que morreu na Torre Norte,
09:51
a firefighter who perished
in the North Tower.
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09:54
His last words, "Thank you."
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as últimas palavras dele: "Obrigado".
09:57
You find it difficult to say goodbye.
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Você acha difícil dizer adeus.
10:00
FB: When a sister loves a sister,
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FB: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
10:02
it is five o’clock in the morning,
you are asleep and she is calling.
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são cinco da manhã, você está
dormindo e ela liga para você.
10:05
You say, "Hey, sis, did someone die?"
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Você diz: "Oi irmã, alguém morreu?"
10:08
JM: You are sobbing, saying
your boyfriend, the cop, got shot
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JM: Você está chorando porque
seu namorado, um policial, foi baleado
10:11
and straight away, her voice contains
the depth and calm of a windless lake.
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e na mesma hora, a voz dela transmite
a profundidade e calma de um lago quieto.
10:17
For hours, she stays on the line
and remains very quiet and very kind.
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Por horas, ela fica na linha
e permanece bem quieta e gentil.
10:23
FB: Whatever you need to get through this.
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FB: Tudo para que você possa superar isso.
10:26
JM: When she says,
"Let's see each other this week,"
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JM: Quando ela diz:
"Vamos nos ver essa semana",
10:28
she means, "Let's cancel
and talk on the phone instead."
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ela quer dizer: "Vamos cancelar
e conversar pelo telefone".
10:31
When she says,
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Quando ela diz:
10:33
"This thing Tara Brach said
reminded me of you,"
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"Isto que a Tara Brach disse
me fez lembrar de você",
10:35
she means it reminded her
of her and then you.
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ela quer dizer que fez com que ela
se lembrasse dela e depois você.
10:39
It means she's been doing
guided meditations again,
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Quer dizer que ela está fazendo
meditações guiadas de novo,
10:42
is about to drop
some spiritual-wisdom-type shit
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está prestes a falar umas porcarias
sobre sabedoria espiritual,
10:45
about radical acceptance, ergo --
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aceitação radical, ergo...
10:47
FB: The only way to live is by accepting
each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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FB: A única forma de viver é aceitando
cada minuto como um milagre irrepetível.
10:51
JM: In the '90s, you fought
with the constancy of dawn.
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JM: Nos anos 90, você lutava
com a firmeza do amanhecer.
10:55
It was entertaining, a sport, a pastime.
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Era divertido, um esporte, um passatempo.
10:57
FB: What is wrong with you?
JM: What's wrong with you?
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FB: Qual é o seu problema?
JM: Qual é o seu?
11:00
FB: I'm not the one being aggressive.
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FB: Não sou eu a agressiva.
JM: Não te entendo. Estou tranquila.
11:01
JM: I'm relaxed.
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11:03
FB: I'm not doing this with you.
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FB: Não quero fazer isso agora.
11:04
JM: Your wide-eyed friends
would raise their hands and say,
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JM: Seus amigos espantados
levantariam as mãos e diriam:
11:08
"What is going on with you two?"
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"O que está acontecendo com vocês?"
11:11
One winter, when you had no money,
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Num inverno, mesmo não tendo dinheiro,
11:13
you mailed her flowers from Paris
because she was having surgery.
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você mandou flores para ela de Paris
porque ela faria uma cirurgia.
11:17
One spring in your deepest heartbreak
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Numa primavera,
na sua maior desilusão amorosa,
11:20
she stood with you in the rain
on Fulton Street.
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ela ficou na chuva com você na Rua Fulton.
11:23
FB: This isn't your dream, sis.
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FB: Este não é seu sonho irmã.
Você pode deixá-lo.
11:25
You can leave him.
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11:27
JM: One winter, one spring,
two decades, two women, one dream.
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JM: Um inverno, uma primavera,
duas décadas, duas mulheres, um sonho.
11:33
Your mothers' names are Sheila.
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Suas mães se chamam Sheila.
11:35
They quote the Bible, say --
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Elas citam a Bíblia:
11:37
FB: "You are fearfully
and wonderfully made."
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FB: "Você é feita de medos e maravilhas".
11:39
JM: Say --
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JM: Dizem...
11:40
FB: "Boy, it's good
you're done with that MFA."
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FB: "Que bom que terminou
com aquele traste".
11:42
JM: You and your sister laugh,
thank God that pesky dream is finished,
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JM: Você e sua irmã riem,
graças a Deus que o pesadelo acabou,
11:47
now you can finally get back
to peeling potatoes and shucking corn.
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agora vocês finalmente podem
voltar à sua rotina diária.
11:51
FB: When a sister loves a sister,
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FB: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
11:53
you want her in the audience
when your play premieres
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você quer vê-la na plateia
quando você faz a estreia
11:55
at the National Theatre in Washington DC.
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no Teatro Nacional em Washington DC.
11:57
JM: When a sister loves a sister,
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JM: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
11:59
she cheers and screams when an agent
agrees to send out your stories.
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ela torce e vibra quando um agente
concorda em divulgar suas histórias.
12:04
FB: When a sister loves a sister,
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FB: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
12:07
she celebrates your artistic,
romantic and spiritual victories.
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ela celebra suas vitórias artísticas,
românticas e espirituais.
12:11
JM: You are like young girls becoming
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JM: Vocês são como garotinhas se tornando
12:14
what they always dreamed
of becoming when they grew up.
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o que sempre sonharam
se tornar quando crescessem.
12:18
FB: When a sister loves a sister,
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FB: Quando uma irmã ama a outra,
12:21
you listen to her read, thinking --
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você a ouve ler e pensa...
12:24
JM: As heaven to the gods
is poetry to the beloved.
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JM: Como o céu para os deuses
é a poesia para os amados.
12:30
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
12:33
JM: Love you.
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JM: Te amo.
12:34
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Gabriel Ferreira da Silva
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Felice Belle - Poet, playwright, pop culture enthusiast
Felice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.

Why you should listen

Felice Belle is a poet, playwright and pop culture enthusiast. She has performed at Joe’s Pub, the Apollo Theater and the American Museum of Natural History. Belle was a featured poet at TED’s City2.0 conference and her young audiences play, Game On!, premiered at the Kennedy Center as part of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival.

Belle co-wrote and performs alongside Jennifer Murphy in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what’s fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.

Belle holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, an M.A. in Individualized Study from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island University. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.

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Jennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined.

Why you should listen

Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award honoring excellence in multicultural literature, she has performed at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Knitting Factory and The Nuyorican Poets Café, among other performance venues. Murphy also maintains a parallel career as a private investigator, specializing in online investigations and threat monitoring for high-consequence events.

Murphy co-wrote and performs alongside Felice Belle in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what's fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.

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Jennifer Murphy | Speaker | TED.com

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