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

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Joanna Pietrulewicz

Translator: Kartini Rahmatillah Reviewer: Prameswari Rahmanu

Sampaikan pada anak perempuanmu kisah ini,

bagaimana kita bangun dan ingin kopi

malah menemukan berita mayat berserakan,

Tell your daughters of this year,

surat faksimil dari kerabat tergenang air.

how we woke needing coffee

but discovered instead cadavers strewn about our morning papers,

Katakan pada bayimu tentang tahun ini jika ia menanyakan,

waterlogged facsimiles of our sisters, spouses, small children.

katakan jika sudah terlambat.

Akui bahkan saat bebas, tidak seperti itu.

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

Hukum berlaku bahkan untuk hal yang privat

tell her it was too late coming.

meski mereka tetap bersikap baik pada kita

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

mengambil tanpa peduli persetujuan kita,

tidak ada hukum bagi mereka yang memaksa.

There were still laws for every way we used our privates

Kita dilatih untuk menghindar,

while they pawed at the soft folds of us,

grabbed with no concern for consent,

untuk menunggu, meringkuk dan menutupi,

untuk masih dan terus menunggu.

no laws made for the men that enforced them.

Kita diminta untuk diam.

We were trained to dodge,

Tapi sampaikan kisah ini pada anak gadismu

to wait, to cower and cover,

satu tahun dengan awal skor yang sama,

to wait more, still, wait.

seperti juga dengan dua dekade sebelumnya,

We were told to be silent.

kita menghapus air mata kita,

But speak to your girls of this wartime,

peti-peti mati diselimuti bendera,

a year preceded by a score of the same,

melakukan evakuasi TKP di klub,

suara isakan di jalanan,

so as in two decades before,

barisan mayat di jalan bagai tak bernilai,

we wiped our eyes,

laced caskets with flags,

seraya berkata, “Tentu kami bernilai,”

evacuated the crime scene of the club,

menggumam hingga hilang.

Para wanita berduka tahun ini.

caterwauled in the street,

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

Ya, mereka berduka.

Pada tahun yang sama, kita sudah siap.

cried, "Of course we mattered,"

Tahun kehilangan halangan dan bersiap maju

chanted for our disappeared.

The women wept this year.

juga adalah tahun kita menatap moncong senjata,

They did.

In the same year, we were ready.

nyanyian bangau seakan merunduk, menangkis.

berusaha berlindung dari ancaman kematian,

The year we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon

merasa sebagai patriot,

was also the year we stared down barrels,

berkata, “Usia kita 35, waktu berkeluarga,”

sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried,

merencanakan masa depan, tak perlu malu,

caught gold in hijab, collected death threats,

menyebut diri kita gemuk dan berlemak,

knew ourselves as patriots,

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

tanpa cela.

Tahun ini, kita adalah para wanita,

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

bukan pengantin ataupun hiasan,

bukan gender tak bernama,

called ourselves fat and meant, of course,

bukan sebuah kontrak, tapi wanita.

impeccable.

Jelaskan pada bayi-bayimu.

This year, we were women,

Ingatkan mereka tahun ini akan berlalu dengan tenang.

not brides or trinkets,

not an off-brand gender,

Kali pertama kita menyebut kita wanita,

not a concession, but women.

bersumpah solidaritas ini dengan serius.

Instruct your babies.

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

Hanya beberapa dari kita yang melahirkan,

tak ada yang bertanya artinya itu nyata atau tidak,

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

tepat ataukah sesuai.

took this oath of solidarity seriously.

Jika dia menanyakanmu tentang tahun ini,

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

anak gadismu, baik keturunan atau warismu,

and none of us questioned whether that made us real

hal baik tentang sejarah wanita tertatih,

or appropriate or true.

When she asks you of this year,

dia akan terus bertanya-tanya penuh harap,

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

meskipun dia tak memahami pengorbananmu,

dia akan tetap menganggap penilaianmu suci,

from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman,

penasaran untuk mengetahui, “Di mana kau?

she will wonder and ask voraciously,

Apakah kamu melawan? Apakah kamu takut atau merasa terancam?

though she cannot fathom your sacrifice,

Apa warna dari dinding penyesalanmu?

she will hold your estimation of it holy,

Apa yang kau lakukan pada wanita saat itu?

curiously probing, "Where were you?

Takdir untukku ini, mana harus dipatahkan?

Did you fight? Were you fearful or fearsome?

Apakah cukup dan kau baik saja, Mama?

What colored the walls of your regret?

Dan apa kau pahlawan?

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

Dia akan bertanya hal yang sulit.

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

Dia tidak peduli tentang lengkung alismu,

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

berat cengkeramanmu.

Dia tidak menanyakan sebutanmu.

And are you a hero?"

Putrimu, untuknya kau berjuang, ingin tahu

She will ask the difficult questions.

She will not care about the arc of your brow,

hadiah dan cahaya apa yang tetap kau jaga?

the weight of your clutch.

She will not ask of your mentions.

Saat mereka mencari korban di malam hari,

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

apa kau tidur atau tetap terjaga?

Apa imbalan dari tetap terjaga?

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

Bagaimana dengan hak istimewamu saat itu?

When they came for victims in the night,

Apa kau mendukung kemelaratan?

did you sleep through it or were you roused?

Apakah kau berpaling atau mendatangi?

What was the cost of staying woke?

Apa kau tahu apa yang bisa kau lakukan?

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

Apa kau tertipu pada sebutan “keji”?

Did you sup on others' squalor?

Did you look away or directly into the flame?

Apa kau mengajar dengan tulus atau tidak?

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

Di mana kamu?

Katakan hal yang sebenarnya.

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

Akui. Katakan, “Anakku, aku ada di sana

bagai belati diletakkan di wajahku,

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

dan kembali ke asalnya

Where were you?

mengiris ruang untukmu.”

Tell her the truth. Make it your life.

Katakan bahwa kau hidup tanpa kesempatan.

Confirm it. Say, "Daughter, I stood there

Ceritakan jika kau berani,

with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger,

dan selalu, selalu bertemankan keberanian,

and flung it back at itself,

terutama hari-hari saat kau hanya sendiri.

slicing space for you."

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

Katakan padanya kau lahir seperti dia,

seperti ibunya sebelumnya, dan saudaranya,

Tell her you were brave,

and always, always in the company of courage,

pada masa legenda, seperti seharusnya.

mostly the days when you just had yourself.

Sampaikan bahwa dia lahir tepat waktu,

Tell her she was born as you were,

tepat pada waktunya

as your mothers before, and the sisters beside them,

untuk memimpin.

in the age of legends, like always.

(Tepuk tangan)

Tell her she was born just in time,

just in time

to lead.

(Applause)