Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz

Translator: Maider Lizoain Cotanda Reviewer: Jone Aliri Lazcano

Tell your daughters of this year,

Hitz egin zure alabei urte honi buruz.

how we woke needing coffee

Kafe beharrean nola esnatu ginen

but discovered instead cadavers strewn about our morning papers,

eta, nola gorpuak aurkitu genituen egunkarietan barreiatuta,

waterlogged facsimiles of our sisters, spouses, small children.

gure ahizpen, emazteen, haur txikien faksimile bustiak.

Say to your baby of this year when she asks, as she certainly should,

Hitz egiozu zure haurrarri urte honi buruz galdetzen duenean,

tell her it was too late coming.

esaiozu beranduegi iritsi zela.

Admit even in the year we leased freedom, we didn't own it outright.

Onartu askatasuna alokatu genuen urtean ez zela erabat gurea.

There were still laws for every way we used our privates

Baziren oraindik gure atal intimoak arautzeko legeak

while they pawed at the soft folds of us,

gure tolesdura leunak bortxatu

grabbed with no concern for consent,

eta inolako baimenik gabe heltzen zituzten bitartean,

no laws made for the men that enforced them.

legerik ez betearazten zituzten gizonentzat.

We were trained to dodge,

Saihesteko entrenatzen gintuzten,

to wait, to cower and cover,

itxaroteko, beldur izateko eta estaltzeko,

to wait more, still, wait.

gehiago itxaroteko, geldi, zain.

We were told to be silent.

Ixilik egoteko esan ziguten.

But speak to your girls of this wartime,

Baina kontaiezu zure neskei gerraldi hori,

a year preceded by a score of the same,

aurretik antzeko emaitzak izan zituen urtea,

so as in two decades before,

hala, bi hamarkada lehenago,

we wiped our eyes,

gure begiak lehortu genituen,

laced caskets with flags,

hilkutxei banderak lotu genizkien,

evacuated the crime scene of the club,

klubeko krimenaren eszenatokia utzi genuen,

caterwauled in the street,

kaleetan marrakatu,

laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,

hormigoiaren gainean etzan ginen eroritakoen silueten kontra,

cried, "Of course we mattered,"

"Jakina garrantzitsuak ginela!"

chanted for our disappeared.

eta hiladakoei kantatu genien.

The women wept this year.

Emakumeek negar egin zuten urte hartan,

They did.

bai.

In the same year, we were ready.

Urte berean, prest geunden.

The year we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon

Inhibizioa galdu eta askatasun ausartaz alde egin genuen urtea

was also the year we stared down barrels,

kanoiei so egiten hasi ginen urtea ere izan zen,

sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried,

zeruetako lertsunei abesten, uzkurtuta eta tinko,

caught gold in hijab, collected death threats,

hijab-pean harrapatutako urrea, batutako heriotza mehatxuak,

knew ourselves as patriots,

patriotatzat genituen geure buruak, "35 urte ditugu,

said, "We're 35 now, time we settled down and found a running mate,"

zentratzeko eta bikotekidea aurkitzeko unea"

made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear,

mapak sortu haurren poza lortzeko, beldurrak lotsarazten gintuen soilik,

called ourselves fat and meant, of course,

lodi deitu geure buruei, eta, esan nahi genuen,

impeccable.

primerakoak.

This year, we were women,

Urte hortan, emakumeak ginen,

not brides or trinkets,

ez emaztegai edo apaingarri,

not an off-brand gender,

ez marka txarreko generoa,

not a concession, but women.

ez kontzesio, emakume baizik.

Instruct your babies.

Hezi zure haurrak.

Remind them that the year has passed to be docile or small.

Gogorazi urtea igaro dela otzana edo txikia izateko.

Some of us said for the first time that we were women,

Gutako batzuek lehen aldiz esan genuen emakumeak ginela,

took this oath of solidarity seriously.

zin solidarioa serio hartu genuen.

Some of us bore children and some of us did not,

Batzuk haurrak izan ditugu, beste batzuk ez,

and none of us questioned whether that made us real

eta ez dugu dudan jarri horrek erreal egiten gaituen,

or appropriate or true.

edo egoki edo egiazko.

When she asks you of this year,

Urte honi buruz galdetzen dizunean,

your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph,

zure alabak, zure garaipenaren ondorengoak,

from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman,

emakume bihurtzeko historia kulunkaritik,

she will wonder and ask voraciously,

pentsatu eta amorratuta galdetuko du,

though she cannot fathom your sacrifice,

zure sakrifizioa ezin ulertu arren,

she will hold your estimation of it holy,

horrekiko duzun begiruneari helduko dio sakratuki,

curiously probing, "Where were you?

jakinminez ikertuz, "Non zeunden zu?

Did you fight? Were you fearful or fearsome?

Borrokatu al zenuen? Beldurtia edo beldurgarria zinen?

What colored the walls of your regret?

Zerk margotzen zituen zure damuaren paretak?

What did you do for women in the year it was time?

Zer egin zenuen emakumeen alde unea zenean?

This path you made for me, which bones had to break?

Prestatu zenidan bideak zer hezur hautsi behar izan zituen?

Did you do enough, and are you OK, momma?

Nahikoa egin al zenuen, eta ongi al zaude, ama?

And are you a hero?"

Heroia al zara?"

She will ask the difficult questions.

Galdera zailak egingo ditu.

She will not care about the arc of your brow,

Ez zaio inportako bekaina okertzen baduzu,

the weight of your clutch.

irmo heltzen badiozu.

She will not ask of your mentions.

Ez du zure aipamenez galdetuko.

Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know

Zure alabarentzat lan handia egin duzu, eta jakin nahi du

what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction?

zer ekarri duzun, zer opari, zer argi babestu zenuen desagertzetik?

When they came for victims in the night,

Gauean biktima bila etorri zirenean, lotan geratu edo iratzarri zinen?

did you sleep through it or were you roused?

Zein zen esna egotearen prezioa?

What was the cost of staying woke?

What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege?

Ordua zela esan genuen urtean, zer egin zenuen zure pribilegioarekin?

Did you sup on others' squalor?

Besteen miseriatik edan zenuen?

Did you look away or directly into the flame?

Begirada kendu zenuen edo sugarrari so egin zenion?

Did you know your skill or treat it like a liability?

Zure trebetasunaren jabe zinen edo oztopotzat zenuen?

Were you fooled by the epithets of "nasty" or "less than"?

"Nazkagarri" edo "baino gutxiago" epitetoek engainatu zituzten?

Did you teach with an open heart or a clenched fist?

Bihotz zabalaz edo esku zorrotzaz irakatsi zenuen?

Where were you?

Non zeunden?

Tell her the truth. Make it your life.

Esaiozu egia. Egin egiaz zure bizitza.

Confirm it. Say, "Daughter, I stood there

Baieztatu, "alaba, bertan egon nintzen

with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger,

unea nire aurpegian marraztuta daga bat bailitzan,

and flung it back at itself,

eta bere buruari jaurtita, zuretzat lekua egiteko".

slicing space for you."

Tell her the truth, how you lived in spite of crooked odds.

Esaiozu egia, nola biziraun zenuen soberakin ustelak egon arren.

Tell her you were brave,

Ausarta izan zinela,

and always, always in the company of courage,

eta beti, beti zenuela ausardia aldamenean,

mostly the days when you just had yourself.

batez ere zeure burua besterik ez zenuenean.

Tell her she was born as you were,

Esaiozu zu bezala jaio zela,

as your mothers before, and the sisters beside them,

zuen amak lehenago bezala, eta ahizpak aldamenean,

in the age of legends, like always.

kondairen garaian, beti bezala.

Tell her she was born just in time,

Esaiozu une egokian jaio zela,

just in time

une egokian

to lead.

liderra izateko.

(Applause)

(Txaloak)