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Tracee Ellis Ross - Actress, performance artist, motivational speaker
Tracee Ellis Ross is the star of the ABC comedy series “Black-ish” and an influential voice in the modern conversation around equality, respect, beauty and feeling empowered in your skin.

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When Ross was Emmy-nominated for her work on Black-ish in 2016, it made her the first black woman in 30 years to garner a nomination in the category and only one in five all-time. She's the recipient of multiple NAACP Image awards and nominations for her work. You also may spot her as the host of many award shows, including Black Girls Rock! and the 2017 American Music Awards, where her heart, humor and style are on full blast.

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Tracee Ellis Ross: A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom

Tracee Ellis Ross: A fúria de uma mulher carrega vidas inteiras de sabedoria

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O conjunto global de experiências femininas não pode mais ser ignorado, diz a atriz e ativista Tracee Ellis Ross. Em uma palestra franca e destemida, ela oferece convites para um futuro melhor tanto para homens quanto para mulheres.
- Actress, performance artist, motivational speaker
Tracee Ellis Ross is the star of the ABC comedy series “Black-ish” and an influential voice in the modern conversation around equality, respect, beauty and feeling empowered in your skin. Full bio

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So, I have a friend.
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Tenho uma amiga
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She's an actress, she's in her 60s.
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que é atriz, tem seus 60 anos.
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She's super bright,
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Ela é genial,
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badass,
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poderosa,
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emotionally intelligent.
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tem inteligência emocional.
00:24
And a couple of days before Christmas,
she was at the post office.
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E, alguns dias antes do Natal,
ela estava nos correios.
00:28
It was really crowded,
as it is around the holidays,
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O lugar estava bem lotado,
porque era final de ano,
e ela estava preenchendo uns formulários,
estava bem concentrada.
00:31
and she was filling out some forms
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00:33
and she was really focused.
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00:35
And out of nowhere,
someone moved her out of the way --
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Então, do nada, alguém
a retirou do caminho:
00:40
just physically put their hands on her
and moved her out of the way.
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colocou as mãos nela
e a deslocou de sua posição.
00:45
He apparently needed something
that she was blocking,
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Parece que ele precisava de algo
que ela estava bloqueando,
00:48
so he moved her.
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então ele a moveu.
00:50
Maybe he had said something to her,
maybe he didn't, she didn't hear it ...
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Talvez ele disse algo a ela,
talvez não, ela não ouviu...
Mas estava concentrada
preenchendo o formulário.
00:54
Either way, she was focused,
she was filling out the form.
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E, de repente, havia mãos nela,
e ela estava sendo retirada do caminho.
00:57
And the next thing you know,
there were hands on her,
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and she was being moved out of the way.
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01:01
He then got what he was reaching for,
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Então ele pegou o que queria,
01:05
whatever she was blocking,
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o que ela estava bloqueando,
01:06
and went on his merry way.
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e seguiu seu caminho.
01:09
She said that she was shocked at first --
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Ela disse que, de início, ficou chocada.
01:12
yeah.
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Sim.
01:14
And then a fury rose up in her
that she could not explain:
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E depois uma fúria que ela não sabia
explicar tomou conta dela.
01:17
not annoyance,
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Não era incômodo,
01:19
not frustration,
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nem frustração,
01:21
but "fury" was the word that she used.
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mas "fúria" foi a palavra que ela usou.
01:24
And she went on to say,
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E ela ainda disse:
01:26
"I mean, I wanted to get physical.
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"Sabe, eu queria partir pra cima dele.
01:30
I don't know -- I was furious.
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Não sei, estava furiosa.
01:34
And I don't know why.
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E não sei por quê.
01:36
I mean, he didn't hit me.
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Ele não me bateu.
01:38
He didn't hurt me,
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Não me machucou, nem me violentou.
01:39
he didn't violate me.
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01:41
He moved me,
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Ele me moveu,
01:43
and I wanted to hurt him,
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e eu queria machucá-lo
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or at the very least,
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ou, pelo menos,
ir atrás dele e gritar com ele".
01:47
run after him and yell in his face."
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Depois, fiquei refletindo
sobre essa fúria,
01:50
So later, I was left pondering this fury,
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01:55
and looking for an explanation as to why,
even in her telling of it,
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procurando uma explicação
sobre por que, só de ouvi-la contar,
senti fúria também,
02:00
I felt fury, too,
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e por que ultimamente estava ouvindo falar
tanto sobre essa palavra e sentimento.
02:01
and why this was a word and a feeling
that I was hearing a lot about lately.
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02:07
I feel like this is the point in the room
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Sinto que nesse momento
02:09
where all the men are getting
a little bit uncomfortable.
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todos os homens aqui estão
um pouco desconfortáveis.
02:12
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
02:13
It's OK.
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Tudo bem.
02:15
Stay with me.
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Continuem comigo.
02:17
This fury is something
that I have been chomping on
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Essa fúria é algo
que estou tentando digerir
desde a última eleição
presidencial dos EUA.
02:21
since the last US presidential election.
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And it seems that many women have.
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E parece que muitas mulheres também estão.
02:28
This fury was not my friend's alone.
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Essa fúria não foi só da minha amiga.
02:31
Her fury was ignited
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A fúria dela foi acesa
02:34
by lifetimes of men
helping themselves to women's bodies
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por vidas inteiras
de homens se apoderando do corpo
das mulheres sem consentimento.
02:38
without consent.
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There's a culture of men
helping themselves to women,
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Há uma cultura de homens
que se apoderam de mulheres
e, nesse caso, de uma maneira
aparentemente inócua,
02:44
and in this case,
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in a seemingly innocuous way,
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where a woman's body is like a saltshaker:
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em que o corpo feminino é como um saleiro:
02:49
"Get out of the way
so I can get to the fries" --
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"Saia da frente para eu pegar
as batatas fritas";
02:52
(Laughter)
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(Risos)
02:54
to the most egregious,
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até as mais graves,
violentas
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violent
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e terríveis situações.
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and horrific situations.
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I imagine that some of you
are wondering what the connection is
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Imagino que estejam se perguntando
qual é a conexão entre inócuo e terrível:
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between the innocuous and the horrific,
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two things that seem to be
on opposite ends of the spectrum.
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duas coisas que parecem estar
em extremidades opostas do espectro.
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Well, the common thread is the spectrum.
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A linha comum é o espectro.
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The innocuous makes space
for the horrific.
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O inócuo dá espaço ao terrível.
03:24
And women have to live
with the effects of both
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E as mulheres têm que viver
com os efeitos dos dois
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and everything in between.
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e tudo que está no meio.
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Fellas,
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Amigos,
dá pra imaginar que você
está falando ao telefone,
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can you imagine you're just on your phone,
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e alguém vai até você
e o arranca da sua mão?
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and someone walks up to you
and just takes it out of your hand?
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E a pessoa diz: "Nossa, não sei
porque ficou tão incomodado,
03:41
And they're like, "OK dude,
I don't know why you're getting so upset,
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só quero fazer uma ligação.
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I want to make a phone call.
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Vou devolvê-lo assim que terminar.
03:46
I'm going to give it back to you
as soon as I'm done.
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Calma".
03:49
Whatever."
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03:51
And then imagine if someone takes
that cell phone out of your hands --
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E imagine que alguém
pega esse celular da sua mão,
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I don't know -- once a day,
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não sei, uma vez por dia,
03:58
twice a day,
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duas vezes por dia, ocasionalmente.
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random times.
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04:01
And the explanation is,
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E a explicação é:
"Ah, sabe, sua capinha é legal"
04:02
"Yeah, well, I mean,
you got a fancy case,"
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04:06
or "You shouldn't have
taken it out of your pocket,"
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ou "Não devia tê-lo tirado do bolso"
04:10
or "Yep. Yeah.
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ou "É, a vida é assim".
04:12
That's just the way it is."
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04:14
But somehow, no one ever talks about
the person who took the cell phone.
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Mas, de alguma forma, ninguém fala
sobre a pessoa que pegou o celular.
04:21
Overly simplified, I get it,
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Bem simplificado, eu sei,
mas conseguem ver aonde quero chegar.
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but you see where I'm going.
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Men are so used to helping
themselves, that it's like ...
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Homens estão tão acostumados a se apoderar
que não têm poder sobre si mesmos.
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they can't help themselves.
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04:34
And not because men
are fundamentally less moral,
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E não porque eles sejam menos éticos,
04:38
but because this is a very big
blind spot for most men.
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mas porque esse é um grande
ponto cego para a maioria deles.
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When someone helps themselves to a woman,
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Quando alguém se apodera de uma mulher,
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it not only triggers
discomfort and distress,
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não apenas aciona desconforto e angústia,
04:54
but the unspoken experiences
of our mothers' lives,
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mas as experiências implícitas
da vida de nossas mães, irmãs
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sisters' lives
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05:01
and generations of women before us.
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e de gerações de mulheres antes de nós.
05:05
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men
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São vidas inteiras de mulheres
lidando com homens
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who assume they know better for us
than we know for ourselves,
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que presumem saber do que precisamos
mais que nós mesmas.
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being the property of husbands,
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Sendo propriedade de maridos,
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landowners,
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donos de terra,
05:20
and having old, white men tell us
the fate of our lady parts;
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tolerando velhos homens brancos decidindo
o destino de nossas partes íntimas.
05:26
lifetimes of having our bodies used
for love and objects of desire,
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Vidas inteiras tendo nossos corpos usados
para o amor e como objetos de desejo,
em vez de podermos exercer poder
e usá-los como quisermos.
05:31
instead of bodies that we get to wield
and use as we choose;
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05:39
lifetimes of knowing that whether
we play by their rules or not,
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Vidas inteiras sabendo
que, seguindo as regras ou não,
ainda temos que suportar assédio, abuso.
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we still have to tolerate harassment,
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05:46
assault
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E, pior ainda,
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and even worse;
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05:49
lifetimes of our bodies being used
as property that can be hit and hurt,
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vidas inteiras com nossos corpos usados
como propriedades
que podem ser agredidas e feridas,
05:55
manipulated and moved
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manipuladas e movidas,
05:58
and like objects that are not
deserving of respect;
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e como objetos que não merecem respeito.
06:03
lifetimes of not being able to express
the anger of our bodies.
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Vidas inteiras não podendo expressar
a revolta em nossos corpos.
06:12
It's no wonder we feel this fury.
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Não é de admirar que sintamos essa fúria.
06:17
And if you add in the history of race --
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E se acrescentarmos a história da raça,
06:21
which is a whole other talk --
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que renderia uma outra palestra,
06:24
it gets exponentially more complicated.
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fica imensamente mais complicado.
06:30
When women get manhandled,
we start to rationalize,
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Quando mulheres são manipuladas
por homens, racionalizamos,
tentando encontrar explicações:
06:33
try to figure out the ways that it was --
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"Deve ter sido minha culpa.
06:35
"It was probably our fault.
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06:36
You know what? He probably said
something, and I didn't hear him.
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Ele deve ter dito algo, e eu não o ouvi.
06:41
I'm just overreacting.
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Estou exagerando.
Com certeza estou exagerando".
06:42
I'm totally overreacting."
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06:43
No.
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Não.
06:45
No.
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Não.
06:47
No.
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Não.
06:49
No, no, no, no, no.
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Não, não, não.
06:52
Women have been trained
to think that we are overreacting
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Mulheres são treinadas
para acharem que estão exagerando
06:57
or that we're being too sensitive
or unreasonable.
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ou que estão sendo
muito sensíveis ou irracionais.
07:01
We try to make sense of nonsense,
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Tentamos compreender o incompreensível
e engolimos os sentimentos de fúria.
07:03
and we swallow the furious feelings.
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07:05
We try to put them into
some hidden place in our minds,
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Tentamos colocá-los em um lugar
oculto em nossas mentes,
07:08
but they don't go away.
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mas eles não vão embora.
07:11
That fury sits deep inside
as we practice our smiles --
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Essa fúria permanece lá no fundo
enquanto treinamos os sorrisos:
07:16
(Giggling) "Yes, of course" --
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"Sim, claro",
07:19
and try to be pleasant.
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e tentamos ser agradáveis:
07:20
"I know --" (Giggling)
"Yes, yes, of course,"
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"Eu sei. Sim, sim, claro".
Porque, aparentemente,
mulheres não devem ficar zangadas.
07:24
because apparently, women
aren't supposed to get angry.
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07:29
That fury that my friend felt
holds centuries
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A fúria que minha amiga sentiu
carrega séculos de nunca termos podido
diretamente nos dirigir ou expressar
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of never being able to directly address
or express our indignation,
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nossa indignação,
07:43
our frustration
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nossa frustração
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and our rage.
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e nossa raiva.
07:48
When someone thinks
they can help themselves to our bodies,
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Quando alguém acha que pode
se apoderar de nossos corpos,
não acende apenas nossa fúria atual:
07:51
it not only ignites the current fury,
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07:55
but it lights up the past.
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acende também a do passado.
07:59
What seems like a benign moment
at the post office
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O que parece ser um momento
inofensivo nos correios
08:03
is actually an anger grenade.
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é, na verdade, uma granada de indignação.
08:07
Well,
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Bem,
08:08
kaboom!
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boom!
08:12
Today, the global collection
of women's experiences
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Hoje, o conjunto global
de experiências femininas
não pode mais ser ignorado.
08:16
can no longer be ignored.
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08:19
Time's up on thinking
that we're overreacting
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Acabou o tempo de pensar
que estamos exagerando
ou "A vida é assim mesmo".
08:21
or "This is just the way it is."
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08:24
Time's up on women being held responsible
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Acabou o tempo das mulheres
serem responsabilizadas
08:28
for men's bad behavior.
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pelo mau comportamento dos homens.
08:31
It is men's responsibility
to change men's bad behavior.
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É responsabilidade dos homens
mudar o mau comportamento dos homens.
08:38
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
08:46
Our culture is shifting,
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Nossa cultura está mudando,
08:48
and it's time.
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e está na hora.
08:52
So my fellow women
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Então, minhas colegas mulheres
08:54
and our gentle men,
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e nossos homens gentis,
08:58
as we are here together
within this particular window
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uma vez que estamos aqui
juntos nesse espaço,
09:02
of this large-scale movement
towards women's equality,
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com esse movimento em larga escala
rumo à igualdade das mulheres,
09:08
and as we envision a future
that does not yet exist,
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e uma vez que vislumbramos
um futuro que ainda não existe,
09:12
we both have different invitations.
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recebemos convites diferentes.
09:15
Men,
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Homens,
09:18
I call you in as allies,
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eu os convido como aliados
09:23
as we work together towards change.
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para trabalharmos juntos pela mudança.
09:27
May you be accountable
and self-reflective,
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Que vocês sejam responsáveis
e auto-reflexivos,
09:33
compassionate and open.
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solidários e abertos.
09:38
May you ask how you can support a woman
and be of service to change.
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Que vocês perguntem como podem apoiar
uma mulher e estar a serviço da mudança.
09:44
And may you get help if you need it.
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E que obtenham ajuda caso necessitem.
09:48
And women,
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Mulheres,
09:51
I encourage you
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eu as incentivo
09:54
to acknowledge your fury.
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a reconhecerem sua fúria.
09:57
Give it language.
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Deem voz a ela.
10:00
Share it in safe places of identification
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Compartilhem-na em lugares
seguros de identificação
e de maneiras seguras.
10:03
and in safe ways.
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10:07
Your fury is not something
to be afraid of.
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Sua fúria não é algo a se temer.
10:11
It holds lifetimes of wisdom.
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Ela carrega vidas inteiras de sabedoria.
10:15
Let it breathe
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Deixem-na respirar
10:19
and listen.
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e escutar.
10:21
Thank you.
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Obrigada.
10:22
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
10:29
Thank you.
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Obrigada.
10:30
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Sarah Tambur
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tracee Ellis Ross - Actress, performance artist, motivational speaker
Tracee Ellis Ross is the star of the ABC comedy series “Black-ish” and an influential voice in the modern conversation around equality, respect, beauty and feeling empowered in your skin.

Why you should listen

Tracee Ellis Ross, a global influencer with a cross-cultural and joyful point of view, is a co-founding signatory of the Time's Up movement. In November 2017, she gave a powerful speech that went viral about dismantling expectations and claiming your own life at Glamour's Women of the Year Summit.

When Ross was Emmy-nominated for her work on Black-ish in 2016, it made her the first black woman in 30 years to garner a nomination in the category and only one in five all-time. She's the recipient of multiple NAACP Image awards and nominations for her work. You also may spot her as the host of many award shows, including Black Girls Rock! and the 2017 American Music Awards, where her heart, humor and style are on full blast.

More profile about the speaker
Tracee Ellis Ross | Speaker | TED.com

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