Feed the Green
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FEED THE GREEN: FEMINIST VOICES FOR THE EARTH challenges the cultural imagination surrounding the destruction of the environment and its impact on femicide and genocide. This informative documentary, by Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor and scholar Jane Caputi, highlights an active global resistance movement and an alternative imagery communicating resistant green consciousness.
FEED THE GREEN features a variety of feminist thinkers, including ecological and social justice advocates Vandana Shiva, Starhawk and Andrea Smith, ecosexual activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; ecofeminist theorist and disability rights activist Ynestra King, poet Camille Dungy, scholars and bloggers Janell Hobson and Jill Schneiderman and grass roots activist La Loba Loca. Their voices are powerfully juxtaposed with images from popular culture, including advertising, myth, art, and the news, pointing to the ways that an environmentally destructive worldview is embedded in popular discourses, both contemporary and historical.
Discussions include the parallels between men’s violence against women and violence against Earth, the disastrous and continuing impacts of European colonization, and the ways that the ill effects of environmental damage are felt disproportionately by those who face racial and socioeconomic inequalities. Required viewing for Women’s and Environmental Studies as well as Pop Culture.
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Main credits
Caputi, Jane (filmmaker)
Caputi, Jane (screenwriter)
Caputi, Jane (on-screen participant)
Rosenkranz, Susan (film producer)
Shiva, Vandana (interviewee)
Smith, Andrea (interviewee)
Schneiderman, Jill S. (interviewee)
Hobson, Janell (interviewee)
Other credits
Camera, Viridiana Lieberman, Buck Brinson, Patrick Racheff; editor, Catherine Stuart.
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Activism, Environmental Health, Feminism, Women's MovementKeywords
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Mother Earth, is being tortured, subjected to ecocide,
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deforestation, mountaintop removal, loss of habitat
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and livelihood, mass extinction, militarization,
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corporate contaminations, catastrophic climate change,
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drilling, nuking, fracking.
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Green feminists say that ecocide is a form
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of gender-based domination akin to rape and even femicide.
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Ending ecocide requires social justice
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including sexual and gender justice.
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Ending ecocide means not only taking
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but also giving back.
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Ending ecocide means we need to Feed the Green.
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Obviously, green is the color of associated
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with the environmental movement.
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But green is also a principle in nature.
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It\'s the color of plant life, but it\'s more than that, even.
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If we look at how greenness works,
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you see greenness in the bud of spring,
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the origins of life and you see greenness
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in rot and decay and death.
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And that teaches us about the interconnectedness
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of life and death, which are usually
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our culture poses as opposites but they\'re not.
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They\'re part of a continuous cycle.
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but there\'s another green
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which is the color of the dollar note.
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And there\'s a huge confusion about the real green
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that gives us abundance and nourishment,
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and the fake green which is destroying the planet.
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Destroying lives, destroying people\'s lives.
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Green has to be reclaimed, green is the color of life.
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we see nature as something to be devoured
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much the way that this culture sees women.
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which is something that activists
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and theorists originated in practice pretty much
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from the 1970s on around the world.
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that hide the manipulations of our minds, the planet,
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our bodies, through all kinds of patriarchal constructions.
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Whether they be the constructions of patriarchal science
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that says nature is dead, women don\'t have minds,
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or the constructions of the economy
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that says women don\'t work when they provide
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most of the work on the planet and the most important work
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without which, everything else will collapse.
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and not imagine being part of a living earth.
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Something that you learn, like relations that you learn
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when you\'re working with the earth.
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was no longer anathema.
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And you know, people understand
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what environmental injustice is.
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The vulnerability of certain segments of populations
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to hazards that are not natural, but created by us.
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Vulnerability as a result of social circumstances,
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race, class, gender.
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and veganism is like so racialized, right?
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So communities of color like low-income communities of color
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and migrant communities of color are kind of seen
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in this light like, oh, they\'re not vegan
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you know, they\'re not healthy.
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They don\'t eat healthy.
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Like without really understanding like the systems
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and the systemic violence that really kind of like
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impacts people\'s health.
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And like people said we need to get healthy food,
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get organic food.
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To me, like Abuelita Knowledge, by using that framework
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is to really kind of reclaiming traditional foods.
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To me, eco-feminism, being a brown ecofeminist,
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is somebody that looks at feminist issues,
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but also constantly focusing on the bigger picture, right?
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Nature, like the environment.
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How are we treating animals?
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How are we treating nature?
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How we\'re treating plants, how are we communicating?
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How are we creating connections?
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to environmental thinking, that humans are not apart
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from nature or not separate from nature.
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Humans are just beings among many living beings
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that constitute the planet.
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a commitment to overall social justice.
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What also unites us is that we recognize
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that anyone who has been othered in the culture
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is usually othered, made to seem less than,
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made to seem inferior by being said to be closer to nature.
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in the last 500 years
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has been created through separation.
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First, a separation of humans from nature.
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And that\'s the anthropocentric idea,
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but it\'s not that all human beings
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become part of a powerful elite.
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Most human beings, including indigenous people,
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non-Christians, non-whites,
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and women are defined into nature.
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and believing that we are on top of it all.
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And believing that our way
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of having consciousness is the primary way,
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the most important way of having consciousness.
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And that one section of that group, in particular usually
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the white man\'s, has the most primary role
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in that hierarchy.
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and that\'s the rationale used to oppress anyone.
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They\'re said to be closer to nature.
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Indigenous peoples are certainly seen as close to nature.
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and political hierarchies.
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We\'re civilized, they\'re primitive.
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We are moral and they\'re immoral.
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We have more control and they are totally out of control.
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All of those projections is what you see going on.
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And therefore, that makes it easier to justify
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why you would then go and take their lands
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and, you know, take over their cultures.
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we see that again, what was going on was not just
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about picking land and resources,
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but destroying the political alternative
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that was represented by native nations.
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And again, I don\'t wanna generalize,
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but in many native nations, they weren\'t patriarchal.
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Many were matrilineal for instance, many nations
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or wasn\'t widespread sexual or gender violence
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or just widespread violence, generally speaking.
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Many nations were not hierarchical.
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from a manual for Spanish conquistadors.
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The conquistador towers over the globe
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and the stated goal is to take more and more, mas y mas.
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And the capitalist consumer culture that has developed
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in North America has sought ever after to fulfill this goal.
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Is the land a commodity that should be bought
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and sold in the first place?
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Indigenous sovereignty is not about control of territory.
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It\'s about respect and responsibility for land.
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of being exploited is closer to nature or in some ways
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to stand it, you know, nature is a commodity.
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The privatization and commoditization of nature,
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then it becomes something to sell and own,
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and have and possess.
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And so, you know, that then means
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that certain people\'s claims on their own person, even,
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on their own body are not legitimate.
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to a history of people being considered chattel,
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which means livestock, which means being responsible
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for the land, but not being able to control
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what happened to it and what happened to them
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in relationship to it.
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And I think that for the survival of this planet,
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we need very quickly to rethink that concept
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about who owns what, and who gets the power to control.
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in our popular culture, particularly in images of the earth,
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the whole earth or the globe sometimes.
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In these you see, and it is mostly white,
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rich looking men toying with the earth,
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standing over the earth.
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It\'s completely disproportionate in size.
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with all of creation is often takes place
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in a very gendered terrain, right?
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We see earth as something essentially
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that\'s inherently viable
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in the way we tend to see women as rapable.
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and objectifying the earth parallel those
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of men dominating and objectifying women.
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Men are implicitly then the shapers and takers,
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and women and earth, what can be shaped, faked,
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shopped,
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chopped,
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branded,
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strangled,
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dumped,
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and turned from a being into a thing.
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of, upholds construction of power.
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Far as violation, far as exploitation.
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as power over, a masculine domination over the feminine,
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whoever is put into those roles.
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against women is very intimately connected
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to the war against the earth.
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there is that idea of penetration.
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So you penetrate the female body the way you penetrate land.
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they were always accompanied by rape and sexual mutilation
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with native peoples genitals being cut out.
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I mean, why go through all this
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if all you need to do is exterminate native peoples.
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So there\'s a larger colonial project going on
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at the same time, which is to render native bodies
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inherently rapable and by extension,
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their lands inherently invadable
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and their resources inherently extractable.
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as the dark continent, as Freud would later use
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in terms of that analogy,
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colonizing then becomes another way of doing domination.
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And sexual domination, colonial domination,
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those we\'ve seen as mirror images, right?
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by which you say your body is mine, right?
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You have no integrity, but by extension,
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everything about you has no integrity.
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Your territories don\'t have integrity.
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Your resources don\'t have integrity.
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They are something that belongs to the colonizers.
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And biologists speak of a system\'s biological integrity,
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which is that all the parts are needed there.
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Like a relation of predator and prey
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that keeps the system going.
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But again, an ecocidal, femicidal and genocidal culture
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has made it a practice of violating integrity,
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of going beyond any kind of limits, you know,
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violating someone\'s boundaries.
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of South African Sarah Baartman, displayed in Europe
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as the \"Hottentot Venus\".
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that African female sexuality is more hypersexual.
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And it also highlights the idea that African people
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are more savage and more brutish.
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And therefore, they are in need
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of European intervention and colonization,
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but she does interest these scientists.
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And they\'re the ones who doing all of these examinations
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of her and she was quite resistant, you know,
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they wanted to see her fully nude,
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they wanted to actually examine her genitalia.
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And it\'s only in death that Cuvier was able to
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access her body, dissect her, preserve her brains,
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her genitalia in these jars of formaldehyde fluid,
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which is why the Musee de l\'Homme had those
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in their possession and why they were actually
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on display quite late into the 20th century,
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and why Nelson Mandela in South Africa would want her back.
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Her remains were finally returned in 2002.
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of integrity are rooted in a deeply broken consciousness
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that allows destroyers to believe they can exploit,
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abuse, dump on, and kill off others
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and then rise above it all somehow.
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in terms of how communities of colors are the ones
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that are targeted for toxic waste sites, et cetera.
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But it\'s actually true that when you dump
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nuclear waste here, environmental contamination
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doesn\'t stay there, it will actually get into the atmosphere
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and eventually impact everybody.
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that everyone and everything is inextricably related.
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You cannot break, poison, and pollute anywhere
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without ultimately breaking, poisoning,
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and polluting everywhere.
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That awareness is a green consciousness.
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or to be born.
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And nature is this process, you know,
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a process that is manifested in the female body,
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but also in the male body in terms of fertility.
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is one that Winona LaDuke refers to as continuous rebirth.
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It\'s fed, it thrives, it declines, it dies,
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it transforms and comes back.
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So, you know, it\'s like everything
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that goes around comes around.
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That is nature, continuous with rebirth.
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if it wasn\'t all the time, creating life anew.
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In every cell of every bee, that is intelligence woodwork.
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The intelligence of Gaia at a planetary level.
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that Walt Disney has invented.
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It\'s a powerful force.
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in the universe is of course, everything.
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It\'s birth and death.
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It\'s life, it\'s destruction, as well as creation.
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It\'s all encompassing, cosmic in that sense.
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we can see Mother Nature or Mother Earth
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is still being invoked, but usually,
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in popular culture in mainstream media,
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in very traditionally sexist ways,
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the mother who\'s willing to work for free
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take care of us, never asking anything in return.
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a tiresome nag whose gifts should be refused.
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Someone who should be mocked, ignored and cut down to size.
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as this treacherous, dangerous, castrating bitch.
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She\'s often invoked when we have hurricanes or earthquakes.
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or to a resource, she\'s done for.
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what is this connection between, you know,
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dismemberment of nature the goddess,
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we have to look at it in this larger context
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of this culture of misogyny.
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at these patriarchal origin myths,
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we see that the earth goddess is murdered,
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mutilated, dismembered.
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the ancient mother of all the gods.
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And in the myth, Marduk defeats Tiamat in battle,
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carves her up and creates the world
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out of her dismembered body.
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And it struck me what a powerful myth that is
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for the world that we live in.
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That instead of perceiving the world,
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experiencing it as the living body of the goddess,
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we perceive ourselves as walking around, basically,
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on a bunch of dead stuff that is disconnected,
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that has no integral into relationship.
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Demonizes both women and nature.
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Eve\'s name is the mother of all living.
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And the word Eve actually comes
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from a word that means serpent.
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And Eve, think what she did.
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She talked to the serpent, she talked to nature.
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She accepted the gift of food.
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This is exactly what we need to be doing
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in sustainable reciprocal convert, conversational mode
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with the earth and the elements.
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She was demonized.
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This was reversed and made into a sin.
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And along with that comes the whole idea
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that having a body is separate
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from spirituality or knowledge.
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Eve was blamed for bringing dirtiness into the world
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which is sexuality, menstruation, defecation,
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all these things that keep the cycle of nature going.
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and also being repulsed and reviled and fascinated
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and having a very, very, relationship
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to meet women\'s bodies in the whole culture.
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and our sexualities to be associated with sin.
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It alienates us not only from our bodies but from the earth.
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or more, even, recognize that it is,
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that we live in human bodies.
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We are continuous with the earth.
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We are fed by the earth.
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of this artificial woman who is some kind
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of sex bot, fem bot.
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And that I think is meant to signify
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in a patriarchal symbol system, that men have finally
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achieved their total conquest of nature.
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And look, they\'ve gotten rid of mother nature
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and they bring out an artificial
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completely controllable substitute.
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But really when I look at that figure, I see apocalypse.
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That\'s a figure as kind of sterility goddess.
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There\'s no birth or feeding or creativity possible
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from this figure.
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And in a way, it\'s nature saying you try
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and F with me, I have the last laugh.
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grapple with climate change.
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Why we can\'t actually make the shifts
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that are so clear we need to make.
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Because for so many people, they live lives
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that are disconnected enough, that are mediated enough
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by technology that they don\'t really get it,
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that we are just as dependent right now in our environment
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as we were 10,000 years ago or a hundred thousand years ago.
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They have become so alienated from their carnality
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that this is what they project.
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But of course, it\'s not possible to defeat death.
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And they\'re also projecting us
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into a future of absolute sterility.
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And if you look at some of these images,
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you see that nature is gone.
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white sterile spaces with mostly young white people,
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mostly happily alone with their machines,
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as well as a few people of color,
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often caricatured when included at all.
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is that they can become the God they imagine and project.
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you are the gods of the universe
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(laughs),
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you\'re not gonna try very hard to think
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how to do it differently.
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We need to, as humanity, to strike a balance
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between the technology and the maternity that we\'re creating
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and make sure that it is in sync
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and moving in rhythm with our planet.
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as anything else in the universe.
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So, you know, but it has some kind of consciousness, surely.
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It isn\'t the nerd and it\'s not mindless.
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So we should keep that in mind.
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It\'s really we who are in trouble.
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who will rise up like her sister, Katrina,
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displacing her disobedient and disenfranchised children
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who forgot to vote, except for the next American idol.
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(light music)
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in a sense or metaphor, but I think the mother
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is a very meaningful one
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because the earth does give us life.
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And we are dependent on the earth for the nurturing,
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for the food, for the things that sustain our lives.
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I don\'t think it precludes other metaphors
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like lover or even father.
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as Vasundhara, (foreign language), because she is.
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gendering things, right?
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And we live in a society where everything
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is either a woman or a man.
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So I think that in a way, it\'s violent to name
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an entire system, an entire planet, she.
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I don\'t think it\'s a helpful analogy.
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And I\'m always surprised at how quickly people leap
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to refer to the earth as mother and everybody does it.
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And I think it does a lot of damage
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because the earth should not be gendered.
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It puts women in the position of being the housekeepers.
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It\'s not gendered.
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There\'s no woman housekeeping
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or male housekeeping for that matter, but it is house.
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It is about oikos.
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It is about the place where we live.
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What\'s wrong with being a housekeeper?
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What\'s wrong with a man doing some housekeeping?
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I think it might elicit responses from human beings
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that would be ones of compassion and tenderness,
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and hope, and gratitude, which are all the things
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that I think are called for.
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You know, one of the most obvious ways to see this
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is that we speak of the earth differently.
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Some keep the idea of Mother Earth.
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Others wanna challenge that gender assignment.
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You know what I mean?
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People are two spirit or people just have multiple gender.
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So it really depends like how, you know,
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different cultures see, like Mother Earth.
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some facts about nature that they understood
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perfectly well which is the true diversity of it all.
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But I found a doorway into connecting with nature
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much easier through earth is lover.
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So part of our thing, ecosexuality is changing the metaphor
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from earth is mother to earth is lover.
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not something to be suppressed.
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feeling less disconnected from nature
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and started feeling like we were nature
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and part of the earth.
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So there\'s a kind of metaphysical realm
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of deep love and a feeling of oneness
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that we call ecosexual.
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who are romantically in love with the earth
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and perhaps even sexually, you know,
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practicing a certain kind of love for the earth.
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It\'s not an exclusive sexuality at all.
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In fact, we describe it as being pollen-amorous.
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And it\'s starting to open up your eyes to that.
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of bodily and earthy.
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And in some ways you have to humiliate or deny your body
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in order to have a spirituality.
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in the goddess traditions,
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I think there\'s a very different shift in the sense
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of what we see as sacred.
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We see spirit, we see goddess, deity, divine,
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whenever you wanna call it, we see that sacred quality
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embodied in the physical world, not separate from it.
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blowjobs are all an attempt to get back
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to the earth, to the dirt, possibly.
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or the oppressed parts of our bodies like sexuality
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are seen as dirty, which of course, is the earth.
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of mountain top removal.
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And when these mountains are blown up,
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they\'re blowing up hundreds of thousands,
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if not millions of years of the creation of dirt,
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which allows everything else to grow.
525
00:25:43.100 --> 00:25:46.520 line:15%
And that dirt cannot be brought back.
526
00:25:46.520 --> 00:25:49.470 line:15%
527
00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:51.050
this just looks horrifying.
528
00:25:51.050 --> 00:25:52.680
You know, it\'s like a giant fish kill.
529
00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:55.690
I mean, it\'s a very elemental basic human thing
530
00:25:55.690 --> 00:25:57.590
that this is somehow wrong.
531
00:25:57.590 --> 00:25:58.440
This is a problem.
532
00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:00.860
This is disturbing at a primal level.
533
00:26:00.860 --> 00:26:01.960
534
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:03.520
You know, I mean, that\'s one of the horrors
535
00:26:03.520 --> 00:26:04.870
of these mountains being destroyed.
536
00:26:04.870 --> 00:26:06.450
Is that again, it\'s separating people
537
00:26:06.450 --> 00:26:09.630
from a certain kind of spirituality,
538
00:26:09.630 --> 00:26:12.320
every kind of stereotype that can still be deployed
539
00:26:12.320 --> 00:26:15.030
to destroy people is used against the Appalachian people
540
00:26:15.030 --> 00:26:16.200
to this day.
541
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:18.300
And of course, that\'s part of the justification
542
00:26:18.300 --> 00:26:21.340
for being able to turn that whole area into a sacrifice zone
543
00:26:21.340 --> 00:26:24.180
so that these rich energy corporations can extract
544
00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:26.870
and destroy that whole area.
545
00:26:26.870 --> 00:26:29.290 line:15%
546
00:26:29.290 --> 00:26:31.770 line:15%
to put a dollar sign on absolutely everything.
547
00:26:31.770 --> 00:26:33.150 line:15%
The United States in general lives
548
00:26:33.150 --> 00:26:34.200 line:15%
off the rest of the world.
549
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:36.760 line:15%
So we as a country live off the rest of the world.
550
00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:40.130 line:15%
What we all have to do is pull in
551
00:26:40.130 --> 00:26:42.000
and live off our own footprint.
552
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.890
If we could, we\'d probably price breathing.
553
00:26:44.890 --> 00:26:47.410
We wanna price clean air, we wanna price clean water.
554
00:26:47.410 --> 00:26:48.810 line:15%
We wanna price dirt.
555
00:26:48.810 --> 00:26:51.730 line:15%
You know, there\'s nothing that you\'re entitled to
556
00:26:51.730 --> 00:26:53.330 line:15%
unless you can pay for it.
557
00:26:53.330 --> 00:26:56.850
558
00:26:56.850 --> 00:27:00.330
and take care of people and not do, you know,
559
00:27:00.330 --> 00:27:03.270
the kind of massive consumption that we\'ve been doing
560
00:27:03.270 --> 00:27:07.460
or the the massive hoarding that the upper classes are doing
561
00:27:07.460 --> 00:27:09.810
with the resources and that sort of thing.
562
00:27:09.810 --> 00:27:14.810
It\'s antithetical to, I think, to the best of our nature,
563
00:27:15.133 --> 00:27:17.950
it\'s the most spiritual part of who we are.
564
00:27:17.950 --> 00:27:19.710
565
00:27:19.710 --> 00:27:21.720
by which everything is judged.
566
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.640
If something is sacred, if the earth is sacred,
567
00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:26.890
then that means you don\'t do things
568
00:27:26.890 --> 00:27:31.070
that are gonna have a detrimental result to the soil.
569
00:27:31.070 --> 00:27:33.090
If the water is sacred,
570
00:27:33.090 --> 00:27:36.140
then you aren\'t gonna pollute the water.
571
00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:39.110
If you see the world is dead, you end up killing it.
572
00:27:39.110 --> 00:27:40.730
If you see the world is alive,
573
00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:43.940
if we say we are not gonna pollute the water,
574
00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:46.540
then we find other solutions to our problems
575
00:27:46.540 --> 00:27:49.600
that don\'t involve polluting the water.
576
00:27:49.600 --> 00:27:54.600 line:15%
577
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:58.510 line:15%
And when I go, when my body goes, my body goes back
578
00:27:58.510 --> 00:28:02.300
into that land and it fertilizes it,
579
00:28:02.300 --> 00:28:05.280
it feeds it, it gives back.
580
00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:08.680
And so this is to me, a kind of spirituality.
581
00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:10.120
It\'s a kind of understanding
582
00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:13.750
that I am a part of something bigger.
583
00:28:13.750 --> 00:28:16.570
And the decisions that I make, a fact,
584
00:28:16.570 --> 00:28:18.640
that\'s something bigger.
585
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.320
586
00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:25.670 line:15%
and a butterfly and a human being,
587
00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:27.747 line:15%
including women, are the same.
588
00:28:27.747 --> 00:28:30.370
589
00:28:30.370 --> 00:28:32.258
And it\'s not inevitable, right?
590
00:28:32.258 --> 00:28:35.240
If we lived differently 500 years ago,
591
00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:37.910
then it means we could live differently 500 years from now.
592
00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:42.307
593
00:28:44.220 --> 00:28:49.130
of looking at the world will continue to be chipped against
594
00:28:49.130 --> 00:28:51.830
and that we will continue to work
595
00:28:51.830 --> 00:28:55.100
on the web that keeps us alive.
596
00:28:55.100 --> 00:28:58.150
597
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.090
a spiritual practice for themselves that can be very simple.
598
00:29:03.090 --> 00:29:06.820 line:15%
It can be simply spending time in nature, watching,
599
00:29:06.820 --> 00:29:10.680 line:15%
looking, listening, and opening, and listening,
600
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:13.220
and asking the land what the land wants.
601
00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:14.250
602
00:29:14.250 --> 00:29:15.650
before you\'re picking on earth,
603
00:29:15.650 --> 00:29:18.230
one of the things people do is like, ask the earth.
604
00:29:18.230 --> 00:29:20.780
Another thing that people do is like they offer tobacco,
605
00:29:20.780 --> 00:29:23.780
they offer sage, or they offer like a little thought,
606
00:29:23.780 --> 00:29:25.090
a little poem.
607
00:29:25.090 --> 00:29:27.140
608
00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:29.270
from a Latin word that means breath.
609
00:29:29.270 --> 00:29:31.200
Breath, air, we\'re all breathing the air
610
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.980
the dinosaurs breathe.
611
00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:37.160
Air, breath, spirit is what connects us all.
612
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:39.200
It unites us in our kinship.
613
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.900
614
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:43.950
a way of life that\'s sustainable over time
615
00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:47.340 line:15%
is kind of a radical relationality where we see ourselves
616
00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:49.640 line:15%
in radical relationship with all peoples,
617
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:51.433 line:15%
all of creation, all of things.
618
00:29:52.541 --> 00:29:55.320
619
00:29:55.320 --> 00:29:57.350
even as people of color, like how are we constantly
620
00:29:57.350 --> 00:30:01.400
kind of like putting that violence in like the environment,
621
00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:03.070
you know, the planet that we live on.
622
00:30:03.070 --> 00:30:07.250
623
00:30:07.250 --> 00:30:10.040
in the same way and to envision something different.
624
00:30:10.040 --> 00:30:11.820
625
00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:14.142
all the indigenous traditions,
626
00:30:14.142 --> 00:30:17.340
which is the understanding that if you receive something,
627
00:30:17.340 --> 00:30:18.880
you have to give something back.
628
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:20.810
629
00:30:20.810 --> 00:30:22.620
my very being and soul.
630
00:30:22.620 --> 00:30:24.750
And so that\'s why we\'ve really picked up
631
00:30:24.750 --> 00:30:26.820
this fight for the earth.
632
00:30:26.820 --> 00:30:28.680
633
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.010
I know the forest is also my provider of water.
634
00:30:31.010 --> 00:30:32.040
It\'s provider of soil.
635
00:30:32.040 --> 00:30:33.900
It\'s the cleaner of the air.
636
00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:35.653
I don\'t see it as a timber mine.
637
00:30:36.742 --> 00:30:39.760 line:15%
And that\'s why not only do women have more knowledge.
638
00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:44.340 line:15%
They have more interconnected knowledge that really matters.
639
00:30:44.340 --> 00:30:46.430
640
00:30:46.430 --> 00:30:50.720
And it\'s so powerful that if we could just stop doing
641
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:54.200
even 30% of what we\'re doing that\'s so terrible,
642
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.250
it would just pop up in our faces.
643
00:30:57.250 --> 00:31:00.570
Plant trees everywhere, plant, plant, plant,
644
00:31:00.570 --> 00:31:03.770
grow your own gardens, collect your own rain water,
645
00:31:03.770 --> 00:31:05.633
you know, make your own earth.
646
00:31:06.620 --> 00:31:08.473
Pee and poop in your own soil.
647
00:31:09.502 --> 00:31:10.360
648
00:31:10.360 --> 00:31:12.320
for kind of a deferred revolution,
649
00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:13.670 line:15%
let\'s live the revolution now.
650
00:31:13.670 --> 00:31:14.610 line:15%
We don\'t have to wait for it.
651
00:31:14.610 --> 00:31:17.170 line:15%
We can start to live the way we would actually like to live.
652
00:31:17.170 --> 00:31:19.500 line:15%
The goal is to get people, the next generation
653
00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:21.640 line:15%
to think of things that you wouldn\'t have thought about.
654
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.840
655
00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:29.378
or to turn off the lights of enlightenment.
656
00:31:29.378 --> 00:31:30.480
(laughs)
657
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.300
658
00:31:32.300 --> 00:31:35.750
Some dreams, green dreams are ways of communicating
659
00:31:35.750 --> 00:31:38.020
with the earth, with the plants, with the animals
660
00:31:38.020 --> 00:31:40.330
and all peoples have known this.
661
00:31:40.330 --> 00:31:43.860
This film and even my understanding of the deeper meanings
662
00:31:43.860 --> 00:31:46.710
of greenness were inspired by a dream.
663
00:31:46.710 --> 00:31:50.520
In this dream, I traveled to an underground world.
664
00:31:50.520 --> 00:31:52.310 line:15%
I went down some stairs into the earth
665
00:31:52.310 --> 00:31:54.190 line:15%
and found there was another world down there
666
00:31:54.190 --> 00:31:56.550 line:15%
and there were people, but they weren\'t really human.
667
00:31:56.550 --> 00:31:58.310
But, anyway, they let me stay.
668
00:31:58.310 --> 00:32:00.500
And I traveled to a place out in the country
669
00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:01.810
and I went down a dirt road.
670
00:32:01.810 --> 00:32:03.090
It was a brilliant sunny day.
671
00:32:03.090 --> 00:32:05.990
And coming up out of the ground was a stream
672
00:32:05.990 --> 00:32:10.330
of a natural fountain, of sparkling greenness,
673
00:32:10.330 --> 00:32:12.350
like the source of life.
674
00:32:12.350 --> 00:32:16.450
And I put my hand in the stream and when I took it out
675
00:32:16.450 --> 00:32:19.280
there were green glitters all over me.
676
00:32:19.280 --> 00:32:22.300
And at that moment, I was suddenly shifted back
677
00:32:22.300 --> 00:32:24.690
to a place I used to live in Mexico.
678
00:32:24.690 --> 00:32:26.690
And one of my friends, who\'s a native woman from one
679
00:32:26.690 --> 00:32:29.240
of the Rio Grande pueblos,
680
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.370
I said to her, \"What does it mean?\"
681
00:32:31.370 --> 00:32:32.203
And she paused.
682
00:32:32.203 --> 00:32:36.070
She was scattering seeds to replant native grasses.
683
00:32:36.070 --> 00:32:38.423
And she said, feed the green.
684
00:32:39.830 --> 00:32:42.150
And then I woke up and I took this to mean
685
00:32:42.150 --> 00:32:44.390
that we can\'t just look at the earth as something
686
00:32:44.390 --> 00:32:47.290
that we take from, take from, we have to give back.
687
00:32:47.290 --> 00:32:49.620
And give back, we have to feed the green.
688
00:32:49.620 --> 00:32:51.350
And that way we become the mothers.
689
00:32:51.350 --> 00:32:54.320
We become the gift givers.
690
00:32:54.320 --> 00:32:55.820
We don\'t just take.
691
00:32:55.820 --> 00:33:00.380
And we do this through our creativity, our work, our care.
692
00:33:00.380 --> 00:33:03.020
And even literally, you know, when we die
693
00:33:03.020 --> 00:33:05.760
and our bodies become food for others.
694
00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:10.210
So I really liked that, feed the green, plant that.
695
00:33:13.439 --> 00:33:15.939
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