TEDxWomen 2012
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
iO Tajlet Rajt (iO Tillett Wright): Pedeset nijansi homoseksualnosti
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Umetnica iO Tajlet Rajt fotografisala je 2000 ljudi koji smatraju da pripadaju LGBT sprektru i pitala je mnoge od njih: Da li možeš da kažeš u procentima koliko si strejt ili gej? Ispostavilo se da većina ljudi smatra da se nalazi u sivim delovima seksualnosti, ni 100% gej ni 100% strejt. Ovo predstavlja veliki problem kada se govori o diskriminaciji: gde podvlačite liniju? (Snimljeno na TEDxWomen)
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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Human beings start putting each other into boxes
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Ljudska bića počnu da stavljaju jedni druge u kutije
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the second that they see each other --
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istog trenutka kada se vide -
00:20
Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive?
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Da li je ta osoba opasna?
Da li su privlačni?
Da li su privlačni?
00:23
Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity?
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Da li su potecijalni partneri?
Da li su možda budući kontakti?
Da li su možda budući kontakti?
00:27
We do this little interrogation when we meet people
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Uradimo mali upitnik kada upoznamo ljude
00:29
to make a mental resume for them.
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da bismo u glavi napravili njihov rezime.
00:31
What's your name? Where are you from?
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Kako se zoveš? Odakle si?
00:33
How old are you? What do you do?
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Koliko imaš godina?
Čime se baviš?
Čime se baviš?
00:36
Then we get more personal with it.
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Onda postanemo ličniji.
00:39
Have you ever had any diseases?
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Da li si ikada imao neku bolest?
00:42
Have you ever been divorced?
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Da li si se ikada razvodio?
00:44
Does your breath smell bad while you're answering my interrogation right now?
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Da li imaš loš zadah
dok mi sada odgovaraš na pitanja?
dok mi sada odgovaraš na pitanja?
00:48
What are you into? Who are you into?
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Šta te interesuje?
Ko te interesuje?
Ko te interesuje?
00:49
What gender do you like to sleep with?
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Sa kojim polom voliš da spavaš?
00:51
I get it.
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Shvatam.
00:54
We are neurologically hardwired
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Neurološki smo programirani
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to seek out people like ourselves.
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da tražimo ljude poput nas samih.
00:58
We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough
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Počnemo da pravimo grupe
čim odrastemo dovoljno
čim odrastemo dovoljno
01:00
to know what acceptance feels like.
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da znamo šta znači prihvatanje.
01:02
We bond together based on anything that we can --
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Spajamo se na osnovu bilo čega -
01:04
music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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muzičkog ukusa, rase, pola,
kraja u kome smo odrasli.
kraja u kome smo odrasli.
01:10
We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.
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Žudimo za sredinama
koje pospešuju naše lične izbore.
koje pospešuju naše lične izbore.
01:17
Sometimes, though, just the question "what do you do?"
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Mada ponekad samo pitanje:
"Čime se baviš?"
"Čime se baviš?"
01:19
can feel like somebody's opening a tiny little box
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može da te navede da se osetiš
kao da neko otvara malenu kutiju
kao da neko otvara malenu kutiju
01:21
and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it.
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i traži ti da se uguraš unutra.
01:23
Because the categories, I've found, are too limiting.
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Smatram da su kategorije
previše ograničavajuće.
previše ograničavajuće.
01:26
The boxes are too narrow.
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Kutije su preuske.
01:28
And this can get really dangerous.
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Ovo može da postane zaista opasno.
01:30
So here's a disclaimer about me, though,
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Evo jednog upozorenja u vezi sa mnom
01:32
before we get too deep into this.
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pre nego što zađemo preduboko u temu.
01:34
I grew up in a very sheltered environment.
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Odrasla sam u vrlo zaštićenoj sredini.
01:37
I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s,
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Odgajana sam u centru Menhentna
početkom 1980-ih,
početkom 1980-ih,
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two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.
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dve ulice od epicentra pank muzike.
01:44
I was shielded from the pains of bigotry
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Bila sam zaštićena od netrpeljivosti
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and the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.
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i društvenih ograničenja
pri vaspitavanju zasnovanom na religiji.
pri vaspitavanju zasnovanom na religiji.
01:51
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker
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Odakle dolazim, ako niste bili transvestit
ili ako ne razmišljate radikalno
ili ako ne razmišljate radikalno
01:54
or a performance artist of some kind,
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ili ako niste nekakav izvođač performansa,
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you were the weirdo.
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vi ste bili čudak.
01:58
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
01:59
It was an unorthodox upbringing,
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Bilo je to netipično uzgajanje,
02:01
but as a kid on the streets of New York,
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ali kao dete na ulicama Njujorka,
02:04
you learn how to trust your own instincts,
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naučite kako da verujete
sopstvenim instinktima,
sopstvenim instinktima,
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you learn how to go with your own ideas.
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naučite kako da se vodite
sopstvenim idejama.
sopstvenim idejama.
02:09
So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.
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Kada sam imala 6 godina, odlučila sam
da želim da budem dečak.
da želim da budem dečak.
02:12
I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.
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Jednog dana sam otišla u školu i deca mi nisu dozvolila
da igram basket sa njima.
da igram basket sa njima.
02:16
They said they wouldn't let girls play.
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Rekli su da devojčicama ne daju da igraju.
02:17
So I went home, and I shaved my head,
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Otišla sam kući, obrijala glavu
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and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."
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i vratila sam se sledećeg dana i rekla:
"Ja sam dečak".
"Ja sam dečak".
02:21
I mean, who knows, right?
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Ko bi mogao da pretpostavi, zar ne?
02:22
When you're six, maybe you can do that.
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Kada imate 6 godina,
možda i možete to da uradite.
možda i možete to da uradite.
02:26
I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
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Nisam želela da iko zna
da sam devojčica i nisu znali.
da sam devojčica i nisu znali.
02:30
I kept up the charade for eight years.
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Nastavila sam sa pretvaranjem
narednih osam godina.
narednih osam godina.
02:32
So this is me when I was 11.
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Ovo sam ja sa 11 godina.
02:36
I was playing a kid named Walter
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Igarala sam dečaka po imenu Volter
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in a movie called "Julian Po."
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u filmu "Džulian Po".
02:40
I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.
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Bila sam opako dete sa ulice koje je pratilo
Kristijana Slejtera i gnjavilo ga.
Kristijana Slejtera i gnjavilo ga.
02:43
See, I was also a child actor,
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Bila sam i dete glumac,
02:45
which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,
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što je udvostručilo slojeve glume
sopstvenog identiteta,
sopstvenog identiteta,
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because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
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jer niko nije znao da sam zapravo devojčica
koja glumi dečaka.
koja glumi dečaka.
02:54
In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --
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Zapravo, niko u mom životu
nije znao da sam devojčica -
nije znao da sam devojčica -
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not my teachers at school, not my friends,
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ni moji nastavnici u školi, ni moji prijatelji,
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not the directors that I worked with.
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niti reditelji sa kojima sam radila.
03:02
Kids would often come up to me in class
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Deca bi mi često prilazila u razredu
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and grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's apple
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i zgrabila bi me za grlo
da potraže Adamovu jabučicu,
da potraže Adamovu jabučicu,
03:06
or grab my crotch to check what I was working with.
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ili bi me zgrabili za međunožje da provere
s čime raspolažem.
s čime raspolažem.
03:09
When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stalls
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Kada bih otišla u toalet, okrenula bih cipele
naopačke u kabini
naopačke u kabini
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so that it looked like I was peeing standing up.
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tako da izgleda kao da piškim stojećki.
03:14
At sleepovers I would have panic attacks
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Kada bih išla kod nekoga da prespavam,
imala bih napade panike
imala bih napade panike
03:16
trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me
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pokušavajući da ubedim devojčice
da ne žele da me poljube
da ne žele da me poljube
03:19
without outing myself.
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a da se pri tom ne odam.
03:20
It's worth mentioning though
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Vredno je pomena
03:23
that I didn't hate my body or my genitalia.
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da nisam mrzela svoje telo niti genitalije.
03:26
I didn't feel like I was in the wrong body.
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Nisam se osećala
kao da se nalazim u pogrešnom telu.
kao da se nalazim u pogrešnom telu.
03:28
I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.
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Osećala sam se kao da glumim
u uvežbanoj predstavi.
u uvežbanoj predstavi.
03:30
I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.
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Ne bih se okarakterisala kao tranvestit.
03:34
If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy,
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Da je moja porodica bila jedna od onih
što veruju u lečenje,
što veruju u lečenje,
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they probably would have diagnosed me
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verovatno bi mi postavili dijagnozu
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as something like gender dysmorphic
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kao poremećaj pola
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and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.
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i stavili bi me na hormone da spreče pubertet.
03:42
But in my particular case,
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Ali u mom konkretnom slučaju,
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I just woke up one day when I was 14,
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samo sam se probudila jednoga dana,
kada sam imala 14 godina
kada sam imala 14 godina
03:45
and I decided that I wanted to be a girl again.
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i odlučila sam da želim
da opet budem devojčica.
da opet budem devojčica.
03:47
Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant,
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Pubertet je počeo i nisam imala predstavu
šta znači biti devojčica.
šta znači biti devojčica.
03:50
and I was ready to figure out who I actually was.
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Bila sam spremna da shvatim
ko sam zapravo.
ko sam zapravo.
03:54
When a kid behaves like I did,
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Kada se dete ponaša
kao što sam se ja ponašala,
kao što sam se ja ponašala,
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they don't exactly have to come out, right?
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ne mora zapravo da se deklariše, zar ne?
03:58
No one is exactly shocked.
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Niko nije zaista šokiran.
04:00
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
04:04
But I wasn't asked to define myself by my parents.
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Roditelji me nisu pitali da se definišem.
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When I was 15, and I called my father
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Kada sam imala 15 godina
i kada sam pozvala oca
i kada sam pozvala oca
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to tell him that I had fallen in love,
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da mu kažem da sam se zaljubila,
04:12
it was the last thing on either of our minds
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poslednja stvar na mom i njegovom umu bila je
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to discuss what the consequences were
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da raspravljamo koje su posledice
04:16
of the fact that my first love was a girl.
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toga da mi je prva ljubav jedna devojčica.
04:19
Three years later, when I fell in love with a man,
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Nakon tri godine, kada sam se zaljubila
u muškarca,
u muškarca,
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neither of my parents batted an eyelash either.
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moji roditelji nisu bili iznenađeni.
04:23
See, it's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood
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Veliki blagoslov mog vrlo neobičnog detinjstva
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that I wasn't ever asked to define myself
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bio je to što me nikada nisu pitali
da se definišem
da se definišem
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as any one thing at any point.
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kao bilo šta bilo kada.
04:31
I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing in every moment.
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Bilo mi je dozvoljeno da budem ja, da odrastam
i da se menjam svakog trenutka.
i da se menjam svakog trenutka.
04:35
So four, almost five years ago,
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Pre skoro 4 godine,
04:38
Proposition 8, the great marriage equality debate,
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Predlog 8, velika debata o jednakosti brakova,
04:41
was raising a lot of dust around this country.
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dizala je mnogo prašine u ovoj zemlji.
04:43
And at the time, getting married wasn't really something
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U to vreme nisam mnogo razmišljala
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I spent a lot of time thinking about.
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o venčavanju.
04:47
But I was struck by the fact that America,
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Ali me je iznenadila činjenica da Amerika,
04:50
a country with such a tarnished civil rights record,
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zemlja sa toliko nečistim postupcima
sa ljudskim pravima,
sa ljudskim pravima,
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could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
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može tako napadno da ponavlja svoje greške.
04:55
And I remember watching the discussion on television
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Sećam se da sam gledala rasparavu na televiziji
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and thinking how interesting it was
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i razmišljala koliko je zanimljivo
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that the separation of church and state
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to što je razdvajanje crkve i države
05:01
was essentially drawing geographical boundaries throughout this country,
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ocrtavalo geografske granice kroz ovu zemlju,
05:05
between places where people believed in it
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između mesta gde su ljudi verovali
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and places where people didn't.
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i mesta gde nisu.
05:08
And then, that this discussion was drawing geographical boundaries around me.
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A zatim i to što je ova rasprava ocrtavala
geografske granice oko mene.
geografske granice oko mene.
05:15
If this was a war with two disparate sides,
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Da se radilo o ratu između dve različite strane,
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I, by default, fell on team gay,
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ja bih automatski pala u gej tim,
05:21
because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
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jer svakako nisam bila 100% strejt.
05:24
At the time I was just beginning to emerge
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U to vreme sam tek počinjala da se izvlačim
05:27
from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag
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iz ove osmogodišnje krize identiteta
koja je oscilirala,
koja je oscilirala,
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that saw me go from being a boy
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u toku koje sam se menjala od dečaka
05:33
to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes
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do čudne devojčice koja je izgledala kao dečak
u odeći devojčice,
u odeći devojčice,
05:36
to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy,
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do potpuno suprotne razgolićene,
05:39
over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl
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ženskaste devojčice koja juri za dečacima
05:41
to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was,
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do najzad samo neodlučnog istraživanja
ko sam zapravo -
ko sam zapravo -
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a tomboyish girl
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muškobanjasta devojčica,
05:48
who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.
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kojoj su se sviđali i dečaci i devojčice
u zavisnosti od osobe.
u zavisnosti od osobe.
05:51
I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself,
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Provela sam godinu dana fotografišući
novu generaciju devojčica, vrlo sličnih meni,
novu generaciju devojčica, vrlo sličnih meni,
05:56
who fell kind of between-the-lines --
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koje su zapale negde između linija -
05:58
girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear,
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devojčice koje voze skejt u čipkanom vešu,
06:01
girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish,
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devojčice sa muškom frizurom,
ali koje su lakirale nokte,
ali koje su lakirale nokte,
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girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees,
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devojčice sa senkom na očima
koja ide uz izgrebana kolena,
koja ide uz izgrebana kolena,
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girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls
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devojčice kojima su se sviđale devojčice i dečaci
kojima su se sviđali dečaci i devojčice
kojima su se sviđali dečaci i devojčice
06:11
who all hated being boxed in to anything.
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i svi mrzeli da ih stavljaju
u bilo koju kategoriju.
u bilo koju kategoriju.
06:13
I loved these people, and I admired their freedom,
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Volela sam ove ljude,
divila sam se njihovoj slobodi,
divila sam se njihovoj slobodi,
06:17
but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble
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dok sam posmatrala kako svet,
izvan našeg utopijskog mehura,
izvan našeg utopijskog mehura,
06:20
exploded into these raging debates
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vatreno reaguje u toku debata,
06:22
where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
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dok su eksperti počinjali da upoređuju našu ljubav
sa bestijalnošću na nacionalnoj televiziji.
sa bestijalnošću na nacionalnoj televiziji.
06:27
And this powerful awareness rolled in over me
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Ova moćna svest naterala me je da shvatim
06:30
that I was a minority, and in my own home country,
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da sam manjina i u mojoj zemlji,
06:35
based on one facet of my character.
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na osnovu jednog pogleda na moj karakter,
06:38
I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.
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bila sam legalno i neosporivo
građanin drugog reda.
građanin drugog reda.
06:43
I was not an activist.
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Nisam bila aktivista.
06:45
I wave no flags in my own life.
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Nisam se razmetala svojim mišljenjem.
06:47
But I was plagued by this question:
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Ali me je mučilo pitanje:
06:49
How could anyone vote to strip the rights
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kako iko može da glasa
da se oduzmu prava
da se oduzmu prava
06:52
of the vast variety of people that I knew
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mnogim ljudima koje poznajem,
06:55
based on one element of their character?
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na osnovu jednog elementa
njihovog karaktera?
njihovog karaktera?
06:58
How could they say that we as a group
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Kako mogu da kažu da mi, kao grupa,
07:00
were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else?
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ne zaslužujemo jednaka prava kao neko drugi?
07:02
Were we even a group? What group?
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Da li smo mi uopšte grupa?
Kakva grupa?
Kakva grupa?
07:05
And had these people ever even consciously met a victim of their discrimination?
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Da li su uopšte ovi ljudi ikada svesno
upoznali žrtvu svoje diskriminacije?
upoznali žrtvu svoje diskriminacije?
07:09
Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
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Da li su bili svesni protiv čega su glasali
i kakav su uticaj imali?
i kakav su uticaj imali?
07:13
And then it occurred to me,
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A onda mi je palo na pamet,
07:15
perhaps if they could look into the eyes
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možda, kada bi mogli da pogledaju u oči
07:17
of the people that they were casting into second-class citizenship
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ljudi koje su klasifikovali
kao građane drugog reda,
kao građane drugog reda,
07:21
it might make it harder for them to do.
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možda bi im bilo teže da ih tako klasifikuju.
07:23
It might give them pause.
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Možda bi zastali.
07:25
Obviously I couldn't get 20 million people to the same dinner party,
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Očigedno, nisam mogla da pozovem
20 miliona ljudi na istu večeru,
20 miliona ljudi na istu večeru,
07:30
so I figured out a way where I could introduce them to each other photographically
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tako da sam smislila način da predstavim
jedne drugima kroz fotografije,
jedne drugima kroz fotografije,
07:35
without any artifice, without any lighting,
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bez bilo kakvih izmena, bez svetla
07:38
or without any manipulation of any kind on my part.
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i bez bilo kakve manipulacije s moje strane.
07:41
Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers
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Na fotografiji možemo da proučavamo
brkove lava
brkove lava
07:44
without the fear of him ripping your face off.
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bez straha da će nam istrgati lice.
07:46
For me, photography is not just about exposing film,
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Za mene, fotografija nije samo izlaganje filma,
07:50
it's about exposing the viewer
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već je i izlaganje posmatrača
07:52
to something new, a place they haven't gone before,
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nečemu novom, mestu gde nikada nije bio,
07:54
but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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ali ono što je najvažnije,
ljudima kojih se možda plaši.
ljudima kojih se možda plaši.
07:57
Life magazine introduced generations of people
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Časopis Lajf predstavio je
generacijama ljudi kroz slike
generacijama ljudi kroz slike
07:59
to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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udaljene, daleke kulture,
za koje nisu ni znali da postoje.
za koje nisu ni znali da postoje.
08:03
So I decided to make a series of very simple portraits,
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Odlučila sam da napravim
niz vrlo jednostavnih portreta,
niz vrlo jednostavnih portreta,
08:09
mugshots if you will.
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kao slike iz zatvora.
08:11
And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country
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Odlučila sam da fotografišem sve one
08:15
that was not 100 percent straight,
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koji nisu 100 % strejt u ovoj zemlji,
08:17
which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
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što je, ako niste znali,
neograničen broj ljudi.
neograničen broj ljudi.
08:20
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
08:23
So this was a very large undertaking,
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Ovo je bio ogroman poduhvat
08:25
and to do it we needed some help.
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i da bismo ga sproveli,
bila nam je potrebna pomoć.
bila nam je potrebna pomoć.
08:27
So I ran out in the freezing cold,
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Istrčala sam po hladnoći
08:30
and I photographed every single person that I knew that I could get to
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i fotografisala sam svaku osobu
koju sam mogla,
koju sam mogla,
08:33
in February of about two years ago.
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u februaru, oko pre dve godine.
08:37
And I took those photographs, and I went to the HRC and I asked them for some help.
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Napravila sam te fotografije, a onda sam otišla
u HRC i zamolila ih za pomoć.
u HRC i zamolila ih za pomoć.
08:41
And they funded two weeks of shooting in New York.
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Isfinansirali su dve nedelje snimanja u Njujorku.
08:43
And then we made this.
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A onda smo napravili ovo.
08:46
(Music)
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(Muzika)
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: Ja sam Ajo Tajlet Rajt, umetnica sam,
rođena i odrasla u Njujorku.
rođena i odrasla u Njujorku.
09:03
(Music)
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(Muzika)
09:16
Self Evident Truths is a photographic record of LGBTQ America today.
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Self Evident Truths je fotografski zapisnik
LGBTQ zajednice u Americi danas.
LGBTQ zajednice u Americi danas.
09:21
My aim is to take a simple portrait
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Moj cilj je da napravim jednostavan portret
09:23
of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight
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bilo koga ko nije 100% strejt
09:25
or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
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ili pak oseća da pripada LGBTQ zajednici
na bilo koji način.
na bilo koji način.
09:30
My goal is to show the humanity that exists in every one of us
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Moj cilj je da pokažem ljudskost
koja postoji u svakome od nas
koja postoji u svakome od nas
09:33
through the simplicity of a face.
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kroz jednostavnost lica.
09:36
(Music)
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(Muzika)
09:38
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."
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"Držimo do toga da je istina
da su svi ljudi stvoreni jednaki."
da su svi ljudi stvoreni jednaki."
09:41
It's written in the Declaration of Independence.
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Napisano je u Deklaraciji nezavisnosti.
09:44
We are failing as a nation
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Kao nacija, ne uspevamo
09:45
to uphold the morals upon which we were founded.
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da održimo načela
na osnovu kojih smo osnovani.
na osnovu kojih smo osnovani.
09:47
There is no equality in the United States.
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Jednakost ne postoji u SAD-u.
09:49
["What does equality mean to you?"]
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["Šta tebi znači jednakost?"]
09:52
["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"]
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["Brak"] ["Sloboda"] ["Građanska prava"]
09:53
["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"]
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["Ophodi se prema svakoj osobi
onako bi se ophodio prema sebi"]
onako bi se ophodio prema sebi"]
09:55
It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
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Kada ne morate da mislite na to,
vrlo jednostavno.
vrlo jednostavno.
09:59
The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
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Borba za jednaka prava
nije samo borba za gej brakove.
nije samo borba za gej brakove.
10:02
Today in 29 states, more than half of this country,
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Danas u 29 država,
u više od pola ove zemlje,
u više od pola ove zemlje,
10:06
you can legally be fired just for your sexuality.
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možete legalno da budete otpušteni
samo zbog vaše seksualnosti.
samo zbog vaše seksualnosti.
10:10
["Who is responsible for equality?"]
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["Ko je odgovoran za jednakost?"]
10:13
I've heard hundreds of people give the same answer:
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Čula sam stotine ljudi
kako odgovara isto:
kako odgovara isto:
10:16
"We are all responsible for equality."
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"Svi smo odgovorni za jednakost."
10:20
So far we've shot 300 faces in New York City.
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Do sada smo fotografisali
300 lica u Njujorku.
300 lica u Njujorku.
10:23
And we wouldn't have been able to do any of it
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I ne bismo mogli ništa od ovoga da uradimo
10:24
without the generous support of the Human Rights Campaign.
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bez velikodušne podrške Kampanje ljudskih prava.
10:27
I want to take the project across the country.
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Želim da projekat proširim na celu zemlju.
10:29
I want to visit 25 American cities, and I want to shoot 4,000 or 5,000 people.
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Želim da posetim 25 američkih gradova
i da fotografišem 4.000 ili 5.000 ljudi.
i da fotografišem 4.000 ili 5.000 ljudi.
10:33
This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
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Ovo je moj doprinos borbi
za građanska prava moje generacije.
za građanska prava moje generacije.
10:37
I challenge you to look into the faces of these people
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Čikam vas da pogledate lica ovih ljudi
10:39
and tell them that they deserve less than any other human being.
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i da im kažete da zaslužuju manje nego
bilo koje drugo ljudsko biće.
bilo koje drugo ljudsko biće.
10:42
(Music)
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(Muzika)
10:44
["Self evident truths"]
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["Očigledne istine"]
10:46
["4,000 faces across America"]
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["4.000 lica u celoj Americi"]
10:48
(Music)
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(Muzika)
10:53
(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
11:01
iO Tillett Wright: Absolutely nothing could have prepared us for what happened after that.
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Ajo Tajlet Rajt: Ništa nije moglo da nas pripremi
za ono što je usledilo.
za ono što je usledilo.
11:05
Almost 85,000 people watched that video,
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Skoro 85.000 ljudi je odgledalo ovaj video
11:08
and then they started emailing us from all over the country,
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i počeli su da nam stižu mejlovi iz cele zemlje,
11:11
asking us to come to their towns and help them to show their faces.
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gde nas pitaju da dođemo u njihove gradove
i da im pomognemo da pokažu svoja lica.
i da im pomognemo da pokažu svoja lica.
11:16
And a lot more people wanted to show their faces than I had anticipated.
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Mnogo više ljudi je želelo da pokaže svoje lice
nego što sam predvidela.
nego što sam predvidela.
11:20
So I changed my immediate goal to 10,000 faces.
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Odmah sam promenila svoj prvobitni cilj
na 10.000 lica.
na 10.000 lica.
11:24
That video was made in the spring of 2011,
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Ovaj video je napravljen u proleće 2011.
11:28
and as of today I have traveled to almost 20 cities
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i sve do danas, otputovala sam u skoro 20 gradova
11:31
and photographed almost 2,000 people.
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i fotografisala skoro 2.000 ljudi.
11:34
I know that this is a talk,
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Znam da je ovo samo govor,
11:37
but I'd like to have a minute of just quiet
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ali bih želela da imam minut tišine
11:40
and have you just look at these faces
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i da pogledate ova lica
11:41
because there is nothing that I can say that will add to them.
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jer ne postoji ništa što bih rekla,
što može da se doda ovome.
što može da se doda ovome.
11:45
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words,
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Ako je slika vredna hiljadu reči,
11:48
then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
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onda je slici lica potreban čitav nov rečnik.
12:12
So after traveling and talking to people
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Nakon što sam putovala
i razgovarala sa ljudima,
i razgovarala sa ljudima,
12:16
in places like Oklahoma or small-town Texas,
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u mestima kao što su Oklahoma
ili mali grad u Teksasu,
ili mali grad u Teksasu,
12:20
we found evidence that the initial premise was dead on.
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došli smo do traga
da prvobitna premisa i dalje važi.
da prvobitna premisa i dalje važi.
12:24
Visibility really is key.
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Vidljivost je zasta ključna.
12:25
Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.
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Bliskost zaista vodi do saosećanja.
12:29
Once an issue pops up in your own backyard or amongst your own family,
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Kada problem iskrsne u vašoj kući
ili u vašoj porodici,
ili u vašoj porodici,
12:32
you're far more likely to explore sympathy for it
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šanse su mnogo veće
da ćete osetiti saosećanje
da ćete osetiti saosećanje
12:35
or explore a new perspective on it.
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ili da ćete potražiti novo gledište na stvar.
12:37
Of course, in my travels I met people
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Naravno da sam u toku mojih putovanja
upoznala ljude
upoznala ljude
12:39
who legally divorced their children for being other than straight,
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koji su se legalno odrekli
svoje dece jer nisu bili strejt,
svoje dece jer nisu bili strejt,
12:43
but I also met people who were Southern Baptists
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ali sam isto tako upoznala ljude
koji su bili južni baptisti
koji su bili južni baptisti
12:46
who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
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i koji su promenili crkvu
jer im je ćerka lezbejka.
jer im je ćerka lezbejka.
12:49
Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.
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Iskra saosećanja postala je glavni oslonac
za Self Evident Truths.
za Self Evident Truths.
12:53
But here's what I was starting to learn that was really interesting:
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Ali evo nečega zanimljivog
što sam počela da učim:
što sam počela da učim:
12:56
Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.
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Self Evident Truths ne briše razlike među nama.
13:01
In fact, on the contrary, it highlights them.
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Zapravo ih naglašava.
13:04
It presents, not just the complexities
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Ne samo da predstavlja složenost
13:06
found in a procession of different human beings,
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koja se pronalazi
u različitim ljudskim bićima,
u različitim ljudskim bićima,
13:08
but the complexities found within each individual person.
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već i složenosti koje se pronalaze
u svakoj pojedinačnoj osobi.
u svakoj pojedinačnoj osobi.
13:12
It wasn't that we had too many boxes, it was that we had too few.
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Nije da smo imali previše kutija,
imali smo ih premalo.
imali smo ih premalo.
13:23
At some point I realized that my mission to photograph "gays" was inherently flawed,
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U jednom trenutku sam shvatila da moja misija da fotografišem "gejeve" bila sama po sebi greška,
13:30
because there were a million different shades of gay.
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jer postoji milion
različitih nijansi homoseksualnosti.
različitih nijansi homoseksualnosti.
13:33
Here I was trying to help,
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Pokušala sam da pomognem
13:36
and I had perpetuated the very thing I had spent my life trying to avoid --
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i ovekovečila sam upravo ono što sam čitavog života pokušavala da izbegnem -
13:39
yet another box.
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samo još jednu kutiju.
13:41
At some point I added a question to the release form
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Dodala sam pitanje formularu
13:45
that asked people to quantify themselves
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koje je tražilo od ljudi da izmere sebe
13:46
on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
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na skali od jedan do 100% gej.
13:49
And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.
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Mnogo egzistencijalnih kriza
odvijalo se pred mojim očima.
odvijalo se pred mojim očima.
13:53
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
13:56
People didn't know what to do
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Ljudi nisu znali šta da rade
13:57
because they had never been presented with the option before.
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jer im nikada niko nije ponudio tu opciju.
14:00
Can you quantify your openness?
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Da li možeš da izmeriš svoju otvorenost?
14:02
Once they got over the shock, though,
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Kada su prevazišli šok,
14:04
by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent
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veliki broj ljudi izabrao je
negde između 70% i 95%,
negde između 70% i 95%,
14:08
or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
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ili 3% do 20%.
14:10
Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other,
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Naravno bilo je i ljudi koji su izglasali
100% jednog ili drugog,
100% jednog ili drugog,
14:13
but I found that a much larger proportion of people
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ali otkrila sam da mnogo veći procenat ljudi
14:15
identified as something that was much more nuanced.
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sebe definiše kao iznijansirane.
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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Otkrila sam da većina ljudi spada u kategoriju
koju sam počela da nazivam "Siva".
koju sam počela da nazivam "Siva".
14:25
Let me be clear though -- and this is very important --
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Dozovlite mi da pojasnim
- a ovo je vrlo važno -
- a ovo je vrlo važno -
14:29
in no way am I saying that preference doesn't exist.
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nikako ne govorim da preferencija ne postoji.
14:33
And I am not even going to address the issue of choice versus biological imperative,
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Neću čak ni da spomenem problem odabira
protiv biološkog imperativa,
protiv biološkog imperativa,
14:38
because if any of you happen to be of the belief
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jer ako iko od vas veruje
14:41
that sexual orientation is a choice,
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da je seksualna orijentacija izbor,
14:43
I invite you to go out and try to be grey.
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pozivam vas da izađete
i pokušate da budete sivi.
i pokušate da budete sivi.
14:44
I'll take your picture just for trying.
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Fotografisaću vas jer se trudite.
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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Ono što pokušavam da kažem je da ljudska bića
nisu jedno-dimenzionalna.
nisu jedno-dimenzionalna.
14:52
The most important thing to take from the percentage system is this:
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Najvažnija stvar
uzeta iz ovih procenata je sledeća:
uzeta iz ovih procenata je sledeća:
14:58
If you have gay people over here
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ako imate gej ljude
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and you have straight people over here,
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i strejt ljude
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and while we recognize that most people identify
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i dok shvatamo da se većina ljudi definiše
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as somewhere closer to one binary or another,
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kao nešto približno jednoj ili drugoj krajnosti,
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there is this vast spectrum of people that exist in between.
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i dalje postoji širok spektrum ljudi koji su između.
15:15
And the reality that this presents is a complicated one.
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Ovo predstavlja jednu komplikovanu realnost.
15:18
Because, for example, if you pass a law
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Na primer, ako izglasate zakon
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that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior,
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koji dozvoljava gazdi da otpusti zaposlenog
zbog homoseksualnog ponašanja,
zbog homoseksualnog ponašanja,
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where exactly do you draw the line?
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gde tačno podvlačite liniju?
15:26
Is it over here, by the people who have had one or two heterosexual experiences so far?
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Da li je to ovde, pored ljudi koji su imali jedno
ili dva heteroseksualna iskustva do sada?
ili dva heteroseksualna iskustva do sada?
15:32
Or is it over here
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Ili je to možda ovde,
15:33
by the people who have only had one or two homosexual experiences thus far?
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pored ljudi koji su imali jedno ili dva
homoseksualna iskustva do sad?
homoseksualna iskustva do sad?
15:37
Where exactly does one become a second-class citizen?
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Gde tačno na liniji neko postane
građanin drugog reda?
građanin drugog reda?
15:42
Another interesting thing that I learned from my project and my travels
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Još jedna zanimljivost koju sam naučila
iz mog projekta i putovanja
iz mog projekta i putovanja
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is just what a poor binding agent sexual orientation is.
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je kako seksualna orientacija
loše povezuje ljude.
loše povezuje ljude.
15:51
After traveling so much and meeting so many people,
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Nakon toliko putovanja
i upoznavanja toliko ljudi,
i upoznavanja toliko ljudi,
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let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts
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dozvolite da vam kažem da postoji jednako
mnogo kretena i divnih ljudi
mnogo kretena i divnih ljudi
15:57
and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens
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i demokrata i republikanaca,
atletičara i kraljica
atletičara i kraljica
16:00
and every other polarization you can possibly think of
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i sve druge polarizacije
koje možete da zamislite
koje možete da zamislite
16:03
within the LGBT community
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unutar LGBT zajednice,
16:05
as there are within the human race.
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kao što ih ima
jednako mnogo u ljudskoj rasi.
jednako mnogo u ljudskoj rasi.
16:09
Aside from the fact that we play with one legal hand tied behind our backs,
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Na stranu to što se igramo sa legalnom rukom
koja nam je vezana iza leđa,
koja nam je vezana iza leđa,
16:14
and once you get past the shared narrative of prejudice and struggle,
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ali kada konačno prevaziđete toliko pričanu priču
o predrasudama i borbi,
o predrasudama i borbi,
16:17
just being other than straight
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samo zato što niste strejt,
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doesn't necessarily mean that we have anything in common.
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sve ovo ne znači
da imamo bilo šta zajedničko.
da imamo bilo šta zajedničko.
16:24
So in the endless proliferation of faces that Self Evident Truths is always becoming,
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U beskonačnom širenju lica
koje Self Evident Truths uvek nalazi,
koje Self Evident Truths uvek nalazi,
16:32
as it hopefully appears across more and more platforms,
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nadam se, dok se pojavljuje u sve više platformi
16:35
bus shelters, billboards, Facebook pages, screen savers,
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na autobuskim stajalištima, bilbordima,
Fejsbuk stranicama, pozadinama na kompjuterima,
Fejsbuk stranicama, pozadinama na kompjuterima,
16:41
perhaps in watching this procession of humanity,
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možda dok posmatramo ovu povorku ljudskosti,
16:44
something interesting and useful will begin to happen.
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nešto zanimljivo i korisno će početi da se događa.
16:47
Hopefully these categories, these binaries,
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Nadajmo se da će ove kategorije,
ove binarnosti,
ove binarnosti,
16:50
these over-simplified boxes
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ove prepojednostavljene kutije,
16:52
will begin to become useless and they'll begin to fall away.
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početi da postaju beskorisne
i da će početi da se raspadaju.
i da će početi da se raspadaju.
16:57
Because really, they describe nothing that we see
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Jer zaista ne opisuju ništa što vidimo,
17:01
and no one that we know and nothing that we are.
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niti bilo koga koga znamo,
niti ono što jesmo.
niti ono što jesmo.
17:04
What we see are human beings in all their multiplicity.
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Vidimo ljudska bića
u svoj svojoj raznovrsnosti.
u svoj svojoj raznovrsnosti.
17:10
And seeing them makes it harder to deny their humanity.
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Kada ih vidimo, teško nam je da poreknemo
njihovu ljudskost.
njihovu ljudskost.
17:13
At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
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U najmanju ruku, nadam se da ovo otežava
poricanje njihovih ljudskih prava.
poricanje njihovih ljudskih prava.
17:17
So is it me particularly
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Da li biste odabrali da baš meni
17:21
that you would choose to deny the right to housing,
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poreknete pravo na kuću,
17:25
the right to adopt children, the right to marriage,
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pravo na usvajanje dece,
pravo na brak,
pravo na brak,
17:28
the freedom to shop here, live here, buy here?
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slobodu da kupujem ovde,
živim ovde?
živim ovde?
17:31
Am I the one that you choose to disown
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Da li ćete odabrati da me se odreknete
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as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father,
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kao ćerke ili kao brata,
sestre, majke, oca,
sestre, majke, oca,
17:38
your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president,
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komšije, rođaka, ujaka, predsednika,
17:40
your police woman or the fireman?
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policajke ili vatrogasca?
17:43
It's too late.
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Prekasno je.
17:46
Because I already am all of those things.
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Jer sam ja već sve to.
17:50
We already are all of those things, and we always have been.
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Mi smo već sve to i oduvek smo to i bili.
17:54
So please don't greet us as strangers,
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Molim vas da nas ne pozdravljate
kao strance,
kao strance,
17:57
greet us as your fellow human beings, period.
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pozdravite nas kao ljudska bića i tačka.
18:00
Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauz)
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