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Eu Existo | Ionara Silva | TEDxBrasilia


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today how everyday I woke up
I packed my breakfast and took
The bus to come to the pilot plane is
Where do I work, study?
roadway, I perceive a
different movement happening right
in the region of the esplanade of the ministries
in the national congress if a
drive a different energy
I was curious, it was not very well.
know that day when you wake up my
Yes
So I thought it would be that these people
that make the decisions that impact
Our lives will do today.
what kind of decisions will they make?
that will transform my life
It was in my head when he
I was already a little late I said ah
I’ll take another look here until
there was a different movement, right?
not like in the national museum of
republic nor victims colored bands
no person left the road to
there and then I said our fifth
different, I had not given it to me
that he had a different agenda
even thought ah should be another one of these
manifestations that happen all the
days, and I was curious
something troubled me to be
to the museum and there on the way I decided
I decided not to
get out of the bus station and walk and walk
until I saw several black women
I had never realized
that I never saw so many black women
in this part of the city that was not
NEP making transit work
work often takes or changes
by bus and that called me to
they were women.
You know how happy they are.
hands and they do a route the
route of the pilot plan
even museum in a very joyful way
Nee and then I said well I’ll follow
changing very curious is until the US
I approached the museum I found
some girls I asked what is
people going on here today is to them
festival activities the largest festival of
black women from Latin America and has
shows are conference workshops
international film show and then I
I spoke of our so nice that I
I thought good since I ‘m around here, right?
It was for free I decided to get closer and
the closer I got to the museum and the
I recognized those women I saw
huh
and then I saw women with several
skin textures
I had several skin opportunities
hair texture they were very
glad she complimented them
They talked to each other and it
drew attention in a way that I
I said our, I think I’ll stick around.
right now and as I was going
knowing this space and I was entering
getting acquainted with those people
they could be my brothers of mine
My aunts cousins, right?
so similar to my hair, right?
It’s the way you talk the way you walk.
The way she talked then she
If you had at home, you know that it was here.
very striking for me is and there one of the
things that caught my attention is
as I got to know these
and people and entered this space is
affection was not fetus was aesthetics had
one with blue hair another with that hair
pink that pink hair she was very
you know she was very
calm of the set with her way
so it captivated me m
captivating but still was when I was
a child a girl she was
atop a stage a farm
presentation where we already have five
some more or less
and she has cared as if it were
a queen knows as if she is
and I was a queen and she was very
was very sure of what she was
doing and she was very proud of
her hair is not what I said
Wow, that’s beautiful, right?
So hard to see these black girls
Are you accepting your hair?
so much happens at school that makes
with which they do not in a bid so beautiful
do not feel happy to be the
they are neither and then I even remembered a
news he had seen recently
that Brazil is one of the 50 worst countries
from the world to the feminine
Did you ever imagine being a black girl?
and she showed me that it’s possible
overcome because she was very
empowered she was already very firm
in what she was proposing with
five years and those experiments were
so clear had a man
also of course, I had to repair
in men a boy magic also well
cool like crazy and then when I
I touched that I was in a space that I
had never been before
You know that I could be exactly who I
I am and I could be a black woman is
that I could be one I could use mine.
hair the way I wear my dress
no one moves me in a way
different because everyone there was like
I
was one of the most
transforming my life, right?
at that moment I realized that there
existed have already stopped to think that it has
people who wake up in the morning and not feel
that is alive
does not feel that it exists because that’s it
happens to many black people, right?
victims of racism
right type of discrimination
and that real experience was already
almost halfway through the day I already had
I thought so much good and until I
I entered the auditorium which was
very similar story to know that the
the National Museum auditorium
republic and this auditorium and in
were several women who were
intelligent women who were
references
fight there are many other women some
I had never even heard of it or
so I did not even know that there were
and these women were journalists
she came architects they were
scientists they were economists they
There were 11 jurists, I did not
at that moment I could be what I
even an artist could be a
artist if I wanted them all
there they were what they exactly
they wanted to be right
and this motivating experience
experience very much love and
very very caring much
complicity with one another of much
wealth, too, and then I decided that
I did what I was going to do a workshop of
turban and did a makeup workshop
and it was the first time I felt
You still know I’m a fat black woman.
peripheral I had almost never had the
chance to exist right?
and at that moment I realized that I could
be all that and even more than I
wanted to be right and that’s one of the things
that caught my attention was a
a poet a poetess a poetess
who declaimed several verses I would never
I had realized I liked poetry
because I never saw myself represented in the
poetry was so far away from me and she
spoke of my pains
in her alone she spoke of the lines of pain
which were also the lines of the
so much so that it is difficult a black woman
in the racist country, and that was one in the
of the most outstanding experiences
maybe it was the part that I most
I liked was from poetry because it is
I gave up willingly to describe
some things and this for me was
liberator, and then I participated
of the shows and had artists from Cuba
united states is dominican republic
In Brazil, not Brazilian women .
a lot of strength and a lot of rep
Age and that experience is not the day
It was already over and I had been given
that it had been perhaps one of the
most significant and most important
For me, right. I took advantage of the
shows and I enjoyed it as if there were no
tomorrow
I really did dance on the dance floor, right?
anyway this is not the one it is not
necessarily my experience with
activities that started a little earlier
when the festival was still an idea
It ‘s an idea of ​​a great friend and
one of the black women that I most
respect is not called jaqueline fernandes
and this festival was held precisely
to fill and give opportunity
to fill this crazy gap and the
at the same time gives visibility to the
intellectual and artistic production of
black women, right?
more than nine years we are
to the 10th edition and to the
During those years, more than 200
thousand people passed through the festival and
many activities took place and many
women were included in this many
women are there today and thanks to
this initial step that the activity gave
It happens here in Brasilia is a
present for our city, it ‘s me
I wanted to finish seize for
invite you to meet the festival
what is happening in brasilia
every year in the month of July and
to professionalize
I wanted to say that I jonara silva 30
black woman I exist and we
we will continue to exist
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