Gabby Rivera: The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero | TED

Prevoditelj: Antoaneta Mjeda Recezent: Sanda L

At no point did I think superheroes would become such a huge part of my life.

Nikad nisam pomislila da će superjunaci postati tako velikim dijelom mog života.

As a kid, I looked at them, and I saw everything I wasn't.

Kao dijete sam ih gledala i vidjela sve ono što ja nisam.

They had big muscles,

Oni su imali velike mišiće,

supermodel good looks,

izgled kao u supermodela

and phenomenal cosmic powers.

i fenomenalne svemirske moći.

And me?

A ja?

I kind of looked like this,

Izgledala sam ovako,

except shorter and with frizzier hair,

samo sam bila niža i kovrčastije kose

and I never felt powerful.

te se nikad nisam osjećala moćnom.

I was always just one big ball of nervous, soft energy,

Uvijek sam bila samo klupko nervozne i nježne energije,

and superheroes, much like the bullies at school,

a superjunaci, baš kao školski nasilnici,

didn't seem to have a lot of room for that, for me.

naizgled nisu imali mjesta za mene.

So I stayed away.

Tako da sam ostala podalje.

And besides, who needs superheroes

Osim toga, tko treba superjunake

when you're surrounded by Puerto Rican women from the Bronx?

kad ste okruženi Portorikankama iz Bronxa?

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

My tías were cops and paramedics,

Moje su tete bile policajke i bolničarke,

my abuelas were seamstresses and sold jewelry up the street,

moje bake krojačice i prodavačice nakita na ulici,

and my mom got her master's degree

a moja je mama diplomirala

odgoj i obrazovanje te je podučavala u njujorškim javnim školama

in education and taught kindergarten in New York City public schools

for over 30 years.

preko 30 godina.

So my superheroes were sitting around the dinner table with me.

Tako da su moje superjunakinje sjedile za kuhinjskim stolom sa mnom.

And I don't know how much time

Ne znam koliko ste vremena

you've spent with Puerto Rican women from the Bronx,

proveli s Portorikankama iz Bronxa,

but we're also some of the world's greatest storytellers.

ali mi smo također među najboljim pripovjedačicama na svijetu.

And I'd sit there at my grandmother's dining room table

Sjedila bih tamo za bakinim kuhinjskim stolom

and I'd listen to the women in my family

i slušala bih žene iz svoje obitelji

tell these wild, rambunctious tales about navigating their lives in the Bronx.

kako pričaju razuzdane priče o svojim životima u Bronxu.

And I wanted to be them so bad.

Jako sam htjela biti poput njih.

But I wasn't tough like them either.

No, nisam bila čvrsta poput njih.

So mostly, I listened,

Tako da sam uglavnom slušala

and I soaked it in,

i upijala

and I found myself gravitating to the soft threads in their stories,

te sam se pronašla kako gravitiram prema mekim nitima njihovih priča,

and I wrote those down.

pa sam ih zapisala.

The funny, the goofy, the gentle --

Smiješno, budalasto, nježno -

those were my in to storytelling,

bili su moj ulazak u pripovijedanje

so much so that I wrote a young-adult novel

i to toliko da sam napisala roman za mlade

called "Juliet Takes a Breath,"

Juliet uzima predah,

about a chubby, queer Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx

o bucmastoj lezbijki, Portorikanki iz Bronxa,

navigating sexuality, family and identity.

koja istražuje seksualnost, obitelj i identitet.

And on the strength of "Juliet,"

Zahvaljujući Juliet,

Marvel Comics tapped me to write the solo series

Marvel Comics me izabrao da napišem solo seriju

for their first-ever Latina lesbian superhero,

za njihovu prvu latinoameričku lezbijsku superjunakinju,

America Chavez.

Americu Chavez.

Yeah!

To!

(Cheers)

(Klicanje)

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Listen, OK.

Slušajte.

Created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta for the Marvel miniseries "Vengeance,"

Kreirali su je Joe Casey i Nick Dragotta za Marvelovu miniseriju Osveta

America Chavez has been in the Marvel Universe

pa America Chavez postoji u Marvelovom svemiru

for over seven years.

već više od sedam godina.

She's tough, Latina,

Ona je čvrsta Latinoamerikanka

and she's so strong that she can punch portals into other dimensions.

i toliko je jaka da može odbaciti portale u druge dimenzije.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I know, right?

Znam.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And people were so excited,

Ljudi su bili uzbuđeni

because finally, someone who shared her identities -- queer and Latina --

jer će konačno netko tko je dijelio njene identitete - lezbijke i Latinoamerikanke,

would be writing her story.

pisati njenu priču.

And I saw that, right?

Uočila sam to.

And also, when I looked at America,

Također, kad sam pogledala Americu,

I saw a young Latina in survival mode.

vidjela sam mladu Latinoamerikanku kako preživljava.

See, because her moms had sacrificed themselves to the universe

Jer njene mame su se žrtvovale svemiru

when she was a kid,

kad je bila dijete

and she'd been on her own ever since.

pa je otad bila sama.

No wonder she had to be tough.

Nije čudo da je morala biti čvrsta.

And that link, that link of having to be tough,

A ta mi je povezanost preko potrebe da se bude čvrst

that rested heavy with me.

ostala dugo na umu.

Like I said, I'm from the Bronx, and the Bronx is tough,

Kao što rekoh, iz Bronxa sam, a Bronx je težak,

tough like walking past sidewalk memorials

kao prolaženje pokraj spomenika na pločniku

and dodging cop towers on your way to the train type of tough.

i izbjegavanje policijskih tornjeva na putu prema vlaku.

When stuff happens that's bad, people are like,

Kad se dogodi nešto loše, ljudi vam govore:

"Yo, you gotta keep it moving. You gotta keep trucking.

"Moraš nastaviti, moraš se nastaviti kretati.

Don't cry. Don't let it get to you."

Ne plači. Ne daj da te to dotuče."

And my mom and my tías and my abuelas,

Moja mama, moje tete i bake,

I never saw them take a moment to rest or to invest in self-care.

nikad ih nisam vidjela da uzimaju predah ili da ulažu u brigu o samima sebi.

And their soft? It never left the house.

A njihove slabosti? Nikad nisu napustile kuću.

And so that was the first thing that I wanted to give to America,

To sam prvo htjela dati Americi,

the thing that I wished I'd been able to give to my abuelas and my tías,

ono što bih voljela da sam mogla dati svojim bakama i tetama,

the thing that I'm trying to give to my mom now:

ono što pokušavam dati svojoj mami sad:

permission to be soft.

dopuštenje da bude slaba.

Like, it's OK to sit in silence

Da je u redu sjediti u tišini

and go on a journey just to discover yourself,

i otići na putovanje samo da biste otkrili sami sebe,

and your pain will make you crumble and you will fall

da ćete se zbog boli raspasti i pasti

and you will need to ask people for help,

pa ćete trebati zamoliti ljude za pomoć,

and that's OK,

i to je u redu,

and that being vulnerable is good for us.

da je ranjivost dobra za nas.

But see, I didn't come to all this compassion and healing stuff

No, nisam došla do svog tog suosjećanja i iscjelivanja

like, you know, out of nowhere,

niotkud,

and so when it came to America's story,

tako da, kad se radi o Americinoj priči,

I wanted to give her the space to be human, to mess up,

htjela sam joj dati prostora da bude ljudska, da pogriješi

and to find soft on her own.

i da sama nađe svoje slabosti.

So she kind of had to quit her day job. You know what I'm saying?

Tako da je morala dati otkaz na svom dnevnom poslu. Kužite?

I had to give her a superhero sabbatical,

Morala sam joj dati superjunačku stanku

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

and the first thing I did was enroll her in Justice Sonia Sotomayor University.

pa sam je prvo upisala na Sveučilište sutkinje Sonije Sotomayor.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Because where else would she feel safe and represented and liberated

Gdje bi se drugdje osjećala sigurno, zastupljeno i oslobođeno,

but a university dedicated to the first Puerto Rican woman

nego na sveučilištu posvećenom prvoj Portorikanki

nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States?

nominiranoj za Vrhovni sud Sjedinjenih Država?

And her first class is "Intergalactic Revolutionaries and You,"

Njezin je prvi kolegij Intergalaktički revolucionari i vi,

and America is so excited, she's ready to show off her strength,

America je jako uzbuđena, spremna je pokazati svoju snagu,

she's ready to show off her portal-punching skills,

spremna je pokazati svoje vještine odbacivanja portala.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

and I stripped that safety net from her right away.

Odmah sam od nje uklonila tu sigurnosnu mrežu.

And I limited her powers, and I changed up her location

Ograničila sam joj moći, promijenila sam joj lokaciju

and shook up her world, because that is what college is like,

i prodrmala njen svijet jer takav je fakultet.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

especially if you're alone.

Pogotovo ako ste sami.

But I didn't want America to be alone for long,

No, nisam htjela da America bude dugo sama

and so in a homework assignment gone totally wrong,

pa je u zadatku koji je pošao krivo

she lands on a battlefield with the X-Men.

završila na bojištu s X-Menima.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Because, when I was in college,

Jer kad sam ja bila na fakultetu,

the Reverend Kelly Brown Douglas was my mentor,

Velečasni Kelly Brown Douglas mi je bio mentor,

and I knew that America Chavez needed one, too.

a znala sam da ga i America treba.

And who better to mentor America Chavez than Storm,

A tko bi bio bolji mentor Americi Chavez od Storm,

the first black female superhero

prve crne superjunakinje

and one of the most powerful members of the X-Men?

i jedne od najmoćnijih članica X-Mena?

Nobody, that's who.

Nitko.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And Storm teaches America how to quiet her mind

Storm uči Americu kako utišati um

inside of a star portal,

unutar zvjezdanog portala,

and when America quiets her mind, she opens up the dimensions,

a kad America utiša svoj um, otvara razne dimenzije

and in that silence,

i u toj tišini

she can listen for anything and anyone.

može slušati bilo što i bilo koga.

And no one has ever offered her silence and deep reflection

Nitko joj nikad nije ponudio tišinu i duboko promišljanje

as a way to be powerful.

kao način da bude moćna.

And at first, she rejects it, but with Storm's encouragement,

Prvo to odbacuje, ali uz Stormino ohrabrenje

it clicks,

to klikne

and America quiets the world around her,

pa America utiša svijet oko sebe

and she leans into a deep vulnerability.

i utone duboko u ranjivost.

I mean, her and Storm even hug.

Ona i Storm se čak i zagrle.

I know.

Znam.

And that's because my mentors loved me enough

I sve to jer su me moji mentori voljeli dovoljno

to encourage me to investigate myself and my ancestors,

da me ohrabre da istražim samu sebe i svoje pretke,

and when you're 19, how do you even know what that means?

a kad imate 19, kako uopće znate što to znači?

I didn't learn about the history of my people in college.

Nisam naučila o povijesti svojih predaka na fakultetu.

I learned about the history of my people sitting on my grandmother's lap

Naučila sam o povijesti svojih predaka u bakinom krilu

when she pulled out the photo album

kad je izvadila fotoalbum

and she named everyone that was here and everyone still left on the island.

i imenovala svakog tko je bio u njemu te svakog tko je još na otoku.

So obviously, I had to crash-land a grandma on America Chavez,

Dakle, očito sam morala prizemljiti baku Americe Chavez,

and not just any grandma -- a big, strong, luchador grandma,

i to ne bilo kakvu - veliku, snažnu i borbenu baku,

one that loved her enough to take her to the ancestral plain,

koja je voli dovoljno da bi je odvela na ravnicu predaka,

where America Chavez could see the history of her people

gdje America Chavez može vidjeti kako se povijest njenih predaka

play out in the skies above.

odigrava na nebesima iznad njih.

And America gets to see Planeta Fuertona,

America vidi planet Fuertona,

the birth planet of her grandmother,

matični planet njene bake,

and she sees it get invaded,

vidi invaziju na njega,

and she sees her grandmother and her mom flee.

vidi kako njena baka i mama bježe.

And she also sees the joy that they experience

Također vidi radost koju osjećaju

when their new homeland accepts them openly

kad ih nova domovina otvoreno prihvati

and offers them tremendous care.

i pokaže im veliku brigu.

She gets to see great pain met with even greater compassion,

Vidi veliku bol uz još veće suosjećanje,

and that's right alongside the tremendous strength of her family.

odmah uz iznimnu snagu svoje obitelji.

And so everywhere that I could, right,

Tako da sam joj, svugdje gdje sam mogla,

I wrote her little love notes

pisala male poruke ljubavi,

for her and for all the other queer kids of color

njoj i svoj drugoj homoseksualno obojenoj djeci

trying to be magnificent.

koja pokušavaju biti veličanstvena.

Like, when you lose yourself,

Kad izgubite sami sebe,

dig deep into your ancestry, because you will find the pieces there.

zavirite duboko u svoje pretke jer tamo ćete naći tragove.

And also, reminders that soft is not a pass to duck,

I također podsjetnike da slabost nije dopuštenje da izbjegavamo,

to hide, to be silent, to cower.

da se skrivamo, da budemo tihi i da se povlačimo.

Soft is also a push

Slabost je također poticaj

to hold ourselves accountable.

da budemo odgovorni.

Kind of like when America lands in World War II

Kao kad America završi u Drugom svjetskom ratu,

and comes face-to-face with Hitler,

suočava se s Hitlerom

and she knocks him the hell out ...

i nokautira ga sve u šesnaest...

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

just like Captain America did in 1941,

Baš kao što je Kapetan Amerika napravio 1941. godine

and who knew we'd need America Chavez to punch Nazis in 2018.

i tko je znao da ćemo trebati Americu Chavez da porazi naciste 2018. godine?

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And even that, that justified act kind of wrecks her a little bit,

Čak joj i taj opravdani čin pomalo našteti

so I made sure that she linked up with her best friend,

pa sam je spojila s njenom najboljom prijateljicom.

and they talk feelings and they go on a road trip

Razgovaraju o osjećajima, idu na izlet

and they sing "Just a Girl" by No Doubt at the top of their lungs.

i pjevaju "Just a Girl" No Doubta iz sveg grla.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And when Midas, a sinister corporation,

A kad Mida, zlokobna korporacija,

takes control of Sotomayor,

preuzima kontrolu nad Sveučilištem,

threatens to ban portals and almost kills America ...

prijeti da će zabraniti portale i zamalo ubija Americu...

her ancestors reach for her ...

njeni preci posežu za njom...

because they know that she needs to heal.

jer znaju da treba zacijeliti.

And it is that burst of care, that healing, that gives her the fuel

Ta joj nalet brige daje snagu

to defeat Midas and reclaim herself.

da porazi Midu i da povrati samu sebe.

See, because that myth

Taj nam mit,

of having to go it alone and having to be tough ...

da moramo sve prolaziti sami i biti čvrsti,

doesn't serve us.

ne služi.

America Chavez is a whole superhero,

America Chavez je cjelovita superjunakinja,

and she still needed a team of support to help her find herself.

a ipak je trebala podršku da pronađe samu sebe.

And she needed that gentleness,

Trebala je tu nježnost,

the type of gentleness that is rooted in compassion

tu vrstu nježnosti koja je ukorijenjena u suosjećanju,

and still very much invested in justice and liberation.

a ipak itekako posvećena pravdi i slobodi.

Because it's in that space where softness and vulnerability meet strength

Jer upravo tamo gdje slabost i ranjivost upoznaju snagu

that we transcend our everyday selves,

svakodnevno nadmašujemo sami sebe,

that we become something greater, something majestic,

postajemo nešto veće, nešto veličanstvenije,

maybe even something super.

možda čak i nešto moćnije.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)