Dam Mwen Yo by Nathalie Joachim | Amanda Gookin | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon

so we’d like to start this evening with
a little bit of music the first piece
you are going to hear comes from a
project of mine titled the Ford music
project which is centered in social
justice and women’s issues and the first
piece I’m going to play is titled dumb
when yo by Natalie’s wash em and first
we’ll hear a little bit from her in her
words about the music and then I’ll play
Dom Wayne yo and Haitian Creole simply
translates to these are my ladies in
Haiti the cultural image of women is one
of strength their pillars are their
homes and communities and are both
fearless and loving all while carrying
the weight of their families and
children on their backs as the first
generation Haitian American these women
my mother grandmothers sisters aunts
cousins were central to my upbringing
and my understanding of what it means to
be a woman in Dante ET Sood where my
family is from it is rare to walk down
the countryside roads without hearing
the voices of women in the fields
cooking for their loved ones gathering
water at the wells with their babies
this piece and the voices within it are
representative of these ladies my ladies
and the cello sings their song one of
strength beauty pain and simplicity in a
familiar landscape
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