Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl

Translator: eva dovč Reviewer: Janja Sterle

Namaste. Good morning.

Namaste. Dobro jutro.

I'm very happy to be here in India.

Zelo vesela sem, da sem danes tukaj v Indiji,

And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned

veliko sem premišljevala o tem, kar sem se naučila,

over these last particularly 11 years

predvsem v zadnjih enajstih letih,

with V-Day and "The Vagina Monologues,"

z Dnevom-V in "Monologi vagine",

traveling the world,

na potovanjih po svetu,

essentially meeting with women and girls across the planet

ko sem se srečevala z ženskami in deklet iz celega sveta,

to stop violence against women.

da bi preprečila nasilje nad ženskami.

What I want to talk about today

To, o čemer bi rada govorila danes,

is this particular cell,

je določena celica,

or grouping of cells, that is in each and every one of us.

oziroma skupek celic, ki je v vsakem izmed nas.

And I want to call it the girl cell.

Rada bi jo poimenovala "dekliška celica".

And it's in men as well as in women.

Ta je tako v moških kot v ženskah.

I want you to imagine that this particular grouping of cells

Prosim, zamislite si, da je ta skupek celic

is central to the evolution of our species

ključnega pomena za razvoj človeške vrste

and the continuation of the human race.

in preživetje človeške rase.

And I want you imagine that at some point in history

Zamislite si nek trenutek v zgodovini,

a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world

ko je skupina vplivnih ljudi

understood that the suppression of this particular cell,

razumela, da je potlačitev te določene celice,

the oppression of these cells,

zatiranje teh celic,

the reinterpretation of these cells,

ponovna opredelitev teh celic,

the undermining of these cells,

spodkopavanje teh celic,

getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells

širjenje miselnosti, da so te celice šibke

and the crushing, eradicating, destroying,

ter teptanje, izkoreninovanje in uničevanje,

reducing these cells,

omejevanje teh celic

basically began the process of killing off the girl cell,

v bistvu sprožilo proces uničevanja dekliške celice,

which was, by the way, patriarchy.

ki je, mimogrede, patriarhija.

I want you to imagine that the girl is a chip

Zamislite si, da je dekle kot čip

in the huge macrocosm of collective consciousness.

v ogromnemu makrokozmosu kolektivne zavesti.

And it is essential to balance, to wisdom

In da je bistvena za uravnoteženost, za modrost,

and to actually the future of all of us.

in - v bistvu - za našo prihodnost.

And then I want you to imagine that this girl cell

Prosim, da si predstavljate to celico

is compassion,

kot sočutje,

and it's empathy, and it's passion itself,

kot empatijo in kot samo strast

and it's vulnerability,

in njeno ranljivost

and it's openness, and it's intensity,

in njeno odprtost in jakost

and it's association, and it's relationship,

in njeno povezavo in njeno razmerje

and it is intuitive.

in to je intuitivno.

And then let's think how compassion informs wisdom,

Zdaj pomislite na to, kako sočutje pripelje do modrosti

and that vulnerability is our greatest strength,

in kako je ranljivost naša najmočnejša točka

and that emotions have inherent logic,

in da imajo čustva svojstveno logiko,

which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action.

ki vodijo v radikalna, ustrezna, odrešujoča dejanja.

And then let's remember that we've been taught

Zdaj pomislite na to, kako so nas vladajoči učili

the exact opposite by the powers that be,

popolno nasprotje teh stvari,

that compassion clouds your thinking,

da sočutje vpliva na našo sodbo,

that it gets in the way,

da je v napoto,

that vulnerability is weakness,

da je ranljivost šibkost,

that emotions are not to be trusted,

da čustvom ni moč zaupati

and you're not supposed to take things personally,

in da stvari ne bi smeli jemati osebno,

which is one of my favorites.

kar je ena izmed mojih najljubših.

I think the whole world has essentially

Mislim, da je bil pravzaprav cel svet

been brought up not to be a girl.

vzgojen, da ni dekle.

How do we bring up boys? What does it mean to be a boy?

Kako vzgajamo fante? Kaj pomeni biti fant?

To be a boy really means not to be a girl.

Biti fant v resnici pomeni, da nisi dekle.

To be a man means not to be a girl.

Biti moški pomeni, da nisi dekle.

To be a woman means not to be a girl.

Biti ženska pomeni, da nisi dekle.

To be strong means not to be a girl.

Biti močan pomeni, da nisi dekle.

To be a leader means not to be a girl.

Biti vodja pomeni, da nisi dekle.

I actually think that

Jaz pa mislim,

being a girl is so powerful

da je biti dekle nekaj tako mogočnega,

that we've had to train everyone not to be that.

da smo vse vzgojili, naj to ne bodo.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

And I'd also like to say that the irony

Ironično je to,

of course, is that denying girl,

da nas je zanikanje deklet,

suppressing girl, suppressing emotion,

zatiranje deklet, tlačenje čustev

refusing feeling has lead thus here.

odvračanje občutkov, to, kar nas je pripeljalo sem.

Where we have now come to live in a world where

Živimo v svetu, kjer

the most extreme forms of violence,

najbolj skrajnih oblik nasilja,

the most horrific poverty,

strahotne revščine,

genocide, mass rapes,

genocida, množičnih posilstev,

the destruction of the Earth, is completely out of control.

uničevanja Zemlje sploh ne moremo nadzirati.

And because we have suppressed our girl cells

Ker smo potlačili dekliške celice

and suppressed our girl-ship,

in potlačili našo dekliškost,

we do not feel what is going on.

se ne zavedamo, kaj se v resnici dogaja.

So, we are not being charged with

Tako nismo oboroženi za

the adequate response to what is happening.

zadosten odziv na trenutna dogajanja.

I want to talk a little bit about

Rada bi na kratko govorila

the Democratic Republic of Congo.

o Demokratični republiki Kongo.

For me, it was the turning point of my life.

Zame je bila to točka preobrata v mojem življenju.

I have spent a lot of time there in the last three years.

Tam sem v zadnjih treh letih preživela veliko časa.

I feel up to that point I had seen a lot in the world,

Zdi se mi, da sem videla že marsikaj na tem svetu,

a lot of violence.

predvsem veliko nasilja.

I essentially lived in the rape mines of the world for the last 12 years.

V bistvu sem zadnjih 12 let preživela v središčih posilstev,

But the Democratic Republic of Congo

ampak šele Demoratična republika Kongo

really was the turning point in my soul.

je povzročila veliko spremembo v meni.

I went and I spent time

Živela sem

in a place called Bukavu

v mestu po imenu Bukavu,

in a hospital called the Panzi Hospital,

v bolnišnici Panzi,

with a doctor who was as close to a saint as any person I've ever met.

z zdravnikom, ki je od vseh ljudi, ki jih poznam, najbolj spominjal na svetnika.

His name is Dr. Denis Mukwege.

Njegovo ime je doktor Denis Mukwege.

In the Congo, for those of you who don't know,

In v Kongu, za tiste, ki ne vejo,

there has been a war raging for the last 12 years,

zadnjih 12 let divja vojna;

a war that has killed nearly six million people.

vojna, v kateri je umrlo skoraj 6 milijonov ljudi.

It is estimated that somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 women

Po ocenah naj bi bilo nekje med 300,000 in 500,000 žensk

have been raped there.

žrtev posilstva.

When I spent my first weeks at Panzi hospital

V prvih tednih v bolnišnici Panzi

I sat with women

sem sedela z ženskami,

who sat and lined up every day to tell me their stories.

ki so se vsak dan usedle in postavile v vrsto, da mi povejo svojo zgodbo.

Their stories were so horrific,

Njihove zgodbe so bile tako pretresljive,

and so mind-blowing and so on the other side of human existence,

tako nepredstavljive in v nasprotju z vsakodnevnimi izkušnjami,

that to be perfectly honest with you, I was shattered.

da sem bila, če sem povsem iskrena z vami, pretresena.

And I will tell you that what happened

Povedala vam bom, kaj se je zgodilo potem;

is through that shattering,

po tem pretresu,

listening to the stories of eight-year-old girls who had their insides eviscerated,

ob poslušanju osemletnih punčk, ki so jim odstranili drobovje,

who had guns and bayonets and things shoved inside them

ki so jim v telo porinili puške in bajonete in stvari,

so they had holes, literally, inside them

tako, da so imele luknje, dobesedno luknje, v sebi,

where their pee and poop came out of them.

iz katerih sta tekla voda in blato.

Listening to the story of 80-year-old women

Poslušala sem zgodbe 80-letnih žensk,

who were tied to chains and circled,

ki so jih zvezali z verigo in obkolili,

and where groups of men would come and rape them periodically,

nato pa so jih skupine moških znova in znova posiljevale,

all in the name of economic exploitation

vse v imenu gospodarskega izkoriščanja,

to steal the minerals so the West can have it and profit from them.

da bi ukradli minerale, s katerimi na Zahodu delajo dobiček.

My mind was so shattered.

Bila sem zelo pretresena.

But what happened for me is that that shattering

Ampak vsa ta pretresenost

actually emboldened me

me je v bistvu ohrabrila,

in a way I have never been emboldened.

tako, kot me ni ohrabrilo še nič poprej.

That shattering, that opening of my girl cell,

Ta pretresenost, to odpiranje moje dekliške celice,

that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart

ta velik premik v mojem čustovanju,

allowed me to become more courageous, and braver,

mi je omogočil, da sem postala pogumnejša in hrabrejša

and actually more clever

in v bistvu pametnejša,

than I had been in the past in my life.

kot sem bila kadarkoli prej.

I want to say that I think the powers that be

Hočem reči, da mislim, da se vladajoči

know that empire-building

zavedajo, da je imperializem,

is actually -- that feelings get in the way of empire-building.

da vejo, da so čustva lahko ovira pri grajenju imperija.

Feelings get in the way of the mass acquisition of the Earth,

Čustva so lahko v napoto pri masovnem osvajanju Zemlje,

and excavating the Earth, and destroying things.

pri izkopavanju Zemlje in pri uničevanju stvari.

I remember, for example, when my father,

Spominjam se, na primer, kako me je oče,

who was very, very violent, used to beat me.

ki je bil zelo zelo nasilen, kako me je včasih tepel.

And he would actually say, while he was beating me,

Med pretepanjem je govoril:

"Don't you cry. Don't you dare cry."

"Ne jokaj. Ne drzni si jokati."

Because my crying somehow exposed his brutality to him.

Zato, ker mu je moje jokanje razkrilo lastno brutalnost.

And even in the moment he didn't want to be reminded

In v trenutku samega početja ni hotel biti opomnjen

of what he was doing.

na to, kar je delal.

I know that we have systematically annihilated the girl cell.

Vem, da sistematično zatiramo dekliško celico.

And I want to say we've annihilated it in men as well as in women.

Hočem reči, zatiramo jo tako v moških kot v ženskah.

And I think in some ways

In mislim, da smo v nekem smislu

we've been much harsher to men

pri zatiranju dekliške celice

in the annihilation of their girl cell.

še manj prizanesljivejši do moških.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

I see how boys have been brought up, and I see this across the planet:

Vidim, kako vzgajamo dečke, enako je po celem svetu,

to be tough, to be hardened,

da so trdoživi in utrjeni,

to distance themselves from their tenderness, to not cry.

da se odpovejo svoji nežnost, da ne jočejo.

I actually realized once in Kosovo,

Nekoč na Kosovu,

when I watched a man break down,

ko sem videla moškega, kako se je zlomil,

that bullets are actually hardened tears,

sem spoznala, da so krogle v bistvu otrdele solze,

that when we don't allow men to have their girl self

da kadar moškim ne dovolimo, da obdržijo svojo dekliškost,

and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion,

da obdržijo svojo ranljivost in sočutje

and have their hearts, that they become hardened and hurtful

in da imajo srce, da postanejo okamneli in škodljivi

and violent.

in nasilni.

And I think we have taught men to be secure

Mislim, da moške učimo, da so gotovi vase,

when they are insecure,

čeprav so v resnici negotovi,

to pretend they know things when they don't know things,

da se delajo, da vejo stvari, pa čeprav jih ne vedo.

or why would we be where we are?

Zakaj bi bili drugače tu, kjer smo?

To pretend they're not a mess when they are a mess.

Da se pretvarjajo, da je vse v redu, ko so čisto zmedeni.

And I will tell you a very funny story.

Povedala vam bom smešno zgodbo.

On my way here on the airplane, I was walking up and down the aisle of the plane.

Ko smo leteli sem, sem se sprehajala gor in dol po letalu.

And all these men, literally at least 10 men,

In vsi ti moški, najmanj deset jih je bilo,

were in their little seats watching chick flicks.

so sedeli v svojih malih sedežih in gledali romantične komedije.

And they were all alone, and I thought, "This is the secret life of men."

Vsi od njih so bili sami in mislila sem si: "Tako izgleda skrivno življenje moških."

(Laughter)

(smeh)

I've traveled, as I said,

Potovala sem, kot sem omenila,

to many, many countries,

v mnoge države.

and I've seen, if we do what we do to the girl inside us

Pomislila sem, da če tako slabo ravnamo z deklico v sebi,

then obviously it's horrific to think

si ne moremo niti predstavljati,

what we do to girls in the world.

kaj počnemo z deklicami po svetu.

And we heard from Sunitha yesterday,

Včeraj smo slišali Sunitho

and Kavita about what we do to girls.

in Kavito, ki sta govorili o tem.

But I just want to say that

Ampak, hočem samo reči,

I've met girls with knife wounds and cigarette burns,

spoznala sem dekleta z brazgotinami od vbodov in cigaret,

who are literally being treated like ashtrays.

s katerimi ravnajo dobesedno kot s pepelniki.

I've seen girls be treated like garbage cans.

Videla sem dekleta, s katerimi ravnajo kot s smetnjaki.

I've seen girls who were beaten by their mothers

Videla sem dekleta, ki jih pretepajo mame,

and brothers and fathers and uncles.

in bratje in očetje in strici.

I've seen girls starving themselves to death in America

Dekleta, ki se v Ameriki stradajo do smrti,

in institutions to look like some idealized version of themselves.

v ustanovah, samo, da bi izgledale kot idealizirane podobe sebe.

I've seen that we cut girls and we control them

Videla sem, da dekleta obrežemo in kontroliramo

and we keep them illiterate,

in hočemo, da ostanejo nepismene.

or we make them feel bad about being too smart.

Ali pa jih zatiramo, če so preveč pametne.

We silence them. We make them feel guilty

Utišamo jih. Hočemo, da se počutijo krive,

for being smart. We get them to behave,

ker so pametne. Naučimo jih obnašanja,

to tone it down, not to be too intense.

da so umirjenje in zmerne.

We sell them, we kill them as embryos,

Prodajamo jih in ubijemo še kot zarodke.

we enslave them, we rape them.

Zasužnjimo jih. Posiljujemo jih.

We are so accustomed to robbing girls

Navajeni smo, da oropamo dekleta

of the subject of being the subjects of their lives

tistega, kar je za njih najpomembnejše,

that we have now actually objectified them

tako, da jih zdaj obravnamo kot predmete,

and turned them into commodities.

spreminjamo jih v blago.

The selling of girls is rampant across the planet.

Prekupčevanje z dekleti razsaja po celem planetu.

And in many places they are worth less than goats and cows.

V mnogih krajih so vredne manj od koz in krav.

But I also want to talk about the fact that

Rada bi omenila tudi dejstvo,

if one in eight people on the planet

da je eden od osmih ljudi na planetu

are girls between the ages of 10 to 24,

dekle starosti med 10 in 24 let.

they are they key, really, in the developing world,

One so ključnega pomena tako za razvijajoči svet

as well as in the whole world, to the future of humanity.

kot za cel svet, za prihodnost človeštva.

And if girls are in trouble because they face systematic disadvantages

Če so dekleta v težavah, ker so v slabšem položaju,

that keep them where society wants them to be,

ki jih omejuje tako, kot družba to hoče,

including lack of access to healthcare,

vključno s pomanjkanjem zdravstva,

education, healthy foods,

izobrazbe, zdrave hrane,

labor force participation.

uvajanje prisilnega dela.

The burden of all the household tasks

Breme gospodinjstva

usually falls on girls and younger siblings,

ponavadi pade na dekletova ramena,

which ensures that they will never overcome these barriers.

kar jim preprečuje, da bi premagale te ovire.

The state of girls, the condition of girls,

Stanje deklet, počutje deklet

will, in my belief -- and that's the girl inside us

bo, po mojem mnenju, govorim o dekletu znotraj nas,

and the girl in the world -- determine whether

in o dekletih po svetu, odločilo,

the species survives.

ali bo naša vrsta preživela.

And what I want to suggest is that,

In kar bi rada predlagala, je,

having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called

ker sem ravno končala s svojo novo knjigo z naslovom

"I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World,"

"Sem čustveno bitje: Skrivno življenje deklet po svetu",

I've been talking to girls for five years,

z dekleti se pogovarjam že pet let,

and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere

in eno izmed opažanj drži povsod.

is that the verb that's been enforced on girl

In sicer, da je glagol, ki se največkrat vsiljuje dekletom,

is the verb "to please."

največkrat glagol "ugoditi."

Girls are trained to please.

Dekleta so vzgojena, da bi ugajala.

I want to change the verb.

Rada bi spremenila ta glagol.

I want us all to change the verb.

Rada bi, da mi vsi spremenimo ta glagol.

I want the verb to be "educate,"

Rada bi glagol, kot je "izobraziti"

or "activate," or "engage,"

ali "aktivirati" ali "zaposliti"

or "confront," or "defy," or "create."

ali "soočiti", "kljubovati", "ustvariti".

If we teach girls to change the verb

Če naučimo dekleta, da spremenijo glagol,

we will actually enforce the girl inside us

bomo s tem uveljavili dekle v nas

and the girl inside them.

in dekle znotraj njih samih.

And I have to now share a few stories

Z vami bi rada delila nekaj zgodb

of girls I've seen across the planet

o dekletih, ki sem jih srečevala,

who have engaged their girl,

ki so uveljavila svojo dekliškost,

who have taken on their girl in spite of

ki so to naredila kljub vsem oviram,

all the circumstances around them.

ki so jih obdajale.

I know a 14-year-old girl in the Netherlands,

Spoznala sem 14-letno dekle z Nizozemske,

for example, who is demanding that she take a boat

ki zahteva,

and go around the entire world by herself.

da z ladjo sama prepluje ves svet.

There is a teenage girl who just recently

Nekje je najstnica, ki je pred kratkim

went out and knew that she needed 56 stars

spoznala, da potrebuje 56 zvezd,

tattooed on the right side of her face.

tetoviranih na desni strani svojega obraza.

There is a girl, Julia Butterfly Hill,

Tu je tudi dekle, Julia Butterfly Hill,

who lived for a year in a tree

ki je leto dni živela na drevesu,

because she wanted to protect the wild oaks.

ker je hotela zaščititi divji hrast.

There is a girl who I met 14 years ago in Afghanistan

Tu je dekle, ki sem jo spoznala pred 14 leti v Afganistanu,

who I have adopted as my daughter

ki sem jo posvojila kot hči,

because her mother was killed. Her mother was a revolutionary.

ker je bila njena mama ubita. Njena mama je bila revolucionarka.

And this girl, when she was 17 years old,

To dekle je pri sedemnajstih letih

wore a burqa in Afghanistan,

v Afganistanu nosilo burko,

and went into the stadiums

šla je na stadione

and documented the atrocities that were going on towards women,

in s kamero pod burko posnela vse krutosti,

underneath her burqa, with a video.

ki so bile storjene ženskam.

And that video became the video that went out all over the world

Ta posnetek je bil predvajan po celemu svetu,

after 9/11 to show what was going on in Afghanistan.

po 11. septembru, da bi pokazali, kaj se dogaja v Afganistanu.

I want to talk about Rachel Corrie

Rada bi povedala nekaj o Rachel Corrie,

who was in her teens when she stood in front of an Israeli tank

ki je bila najstnica, ko se je postavila pred izraelski tank

to say, "End the occupation."

in govorila "končajte z okupacijo".

And she knew she risked death and she was literally gunned down

Vedela je, kakšna so tveganja. Umrla je pod točami krogel

and rolled over by that tank.

in nato je čez njo zapeljal tank.

And I want to talk about a girl that I just met recently

Rada bi povedala še nekaj o dekletu, ki sem jo spoznala

in Bukavu, who was impregnated by her rapist.

pred kratkim v Bukavu, ki je po posilstvu zanosila.

And she was holding her baby.

Držala je svojega dojenčka

And I asked her if she loved her baby.

in jaz sem jo vprašala, če ima dojenčka rada.

And she looked into her baby's eyes and she said,

Pogledala je v otrokove oči in rekla,

"Of course I love my baby. How could I not love my baby?

"Seveda ga imam rada. Kako bi lahko neljubila nekaj, kar je moje?

It's my baby and it's full of love."

To je moj otrok in poln je ljubezni."

The capacity for girls to overcome situations

Sposobnost deklet, da prebolijo te izkušnje

and to move on levels, to me, is mind-blowing.

in da se razvijejo, je zame nepredstavljiva.

There is a girl named Dorcas, and I just met her in Kenya.

Tu je še dekle po imenu Dorcas. Pred kratkim sem jo spoznala v Keniji.

Dorcas is 15 years old,

Dorcas je stara petnajst let,

and she was trained in self-defense.

naučila se je samoobrambe.

A few months ago she was picked up on the street

Pred nekaj meseci so jo trije starejši moški

by three older men.

pobrali na cesti.

They kidnapped her, they put her in a car.

Ugrabili so jo in jo zaprli v avto.

And through her self-defense, she grabbed their Adam's apples,

In s samoobrambo jih je zgrabila za adamova jabolka,

she punched them in the eyes

udarila jih je v očesa,

and she got herself free and out of the car.

osvobodila se je in pobegnila iz avta.

In Kenya, in August,

Avgusta v Keniji

I went to visit one of the V-Day safe houses for girls,

sem obiskala enega izmed Dan-V zatočišč za dekleta,

a house we opened seven years ago

ki smo ga odprli pred sedmimi leti

with an amazing woman named Agnes Pareyio.

skupaj z neverjetno žensko Agnes Pareyio.

Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl,

Agnes so obrezali že, ko je bila deklica,

she was female genitally mutilated.

bila je ženska, ki so ji pohabili genitalije.

And she made a decision as many women do across this planet,

Odločila se je, kot mnogo drugih žensk na tem svetu,

that what was done to her would not be enforced and done

da se to, kar je bilo storjeno njej, ne sme zgoditi

to other women and girls.

nobeni drugi ženski ali dekletu.

So, for years Agnes walked through the Rift valley.

Tako je Agnes leta in leta hodila po dolini Rift.

She taught girls what a healthy vagina looked like,

Dekleta je učila, kako izgleda zdrava vagina

and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

in kako zgleda pohabljena.

And in that time she saved many girls. And when we met her

V tem času je rešila mnogo deklet. Ko smo se srečali,

we asked her what we could do for her,

smo jo vprašali, kako ji lahko pomagamo.

and she said, "Well, if you got me a Jeep I could get around a lot faster."

Rekla je: "No, če mi kupite džip, bom lahko delala hitreje."

So, we got her a Jeep. And then she saved 4,500 girls.

Tako smo ji kupili džip. Rešila je še 4500 deklet.

And then we asked her, "Okay, what else do you need?"

Ko smo jo vprašali, kaj še potrebuje,

And she said, "Well, now, I need a house."

je rekla: "No, zdaj potrebujem hišo."

So, seven years ago Agnes built the first V-Day safe house

Tako je Agnes pred sedmimi leti zgradilo prvo Dan-V zatočišče

in Narok, Kenya, in the Masai land.

v mestu Narok v Keniji, na zemlji plemena Masai.

And it was a house where girls could run away,

To je bila hiša, kjer so se dekleta lahko skrila,

they could save their clitoris, they wouldn't be cut,

lahko so rešila svoj klitoris, nihče jih ni mogel obrezati,

they could go to school.

lahko so hodila v šolo.

And in the years that Agnes has had the house,

Odkar ima Agnes hišo,

she has changed the situation there.

je spremenila veliko.

She has literally become deputy mayor.

Postala je namestnica župana.

She's changed the rules.

Spremenila je zakone,

The whole community has bought in to what she's doing.

vsa skupnost ji stoji ob strani.

When we were there she was doing a ritual

Ko smo bili pri njej, je opravljala ritual,

where she reconciles girls, who have run away, with their families.

kjer skuša dekleta pobotati z družinami, ki so jih zapustile.

And there was a young girl named Jaclyn.

Med njimi je bilo mlado dekle Jaclyn.

Jaclyn was 14 years old and she was in her Masai family

Jaclyn je imela 14 let, živela je v družini Masai.

and there's a drought in Kenya.

V Keniji je huda suša.

So cows are dying, and cows are the most

Krave umirajo, krave pa so

valued possession.

najdragocenejša lastnina.

And Jaclyn overheard her father

Jaclyn je slučajno slišala očeta,

talking to an old man about

ki je s starejšim moškim

how he was about to sell her for the cows.

razpravljal o tem, da jo bo prodal za krave.

And she knew that meant she would be cut.

Vedela je, da to pomeni, da jo bodo obrezali.

She knew that meant she wouldn't go to school.

Vedela je, da ne bo mogla hoditi v šolo.

She knew that meant she wouldn't have a future.

Vedela je, da to zanjo pomeni konec življenja.

She knew she would have to marry that old man, and she was 14.

Vedela je, da se bo morala s starcem poročiti. Imela je šele 14 let.

So, one afternoon, she'd heard about the safe house,

Ko je neko popoldne slišala za zatočišče,

Jaclyn left her father's house

je Jaclyn zapustila očetovo hišo.

and she walked for two days, two days

Hodila je dva dni, več kot dva dni,

through Masai land.

čez deželo plemena Masai.

She slept with the hyenas. She hid at night.

Spala je s hijenami in se ponoči skrivala.

She imagined her father killing her on one hand,

Predstavljala si je, kako jo oče hoče ubiti,

and Mama Agnes greeting her,

in predstavljala si je, kako jo pozdravlja mama Agnes.

with the hope that she would greet her when she got to the house.

Upala je, da jo bodo toplo sprejeli.

And when she got to the house she was greeted.

Ko je prišla do zatočišča, je bila dobrodošla.

Agnes took her in, and Agnes loved her,

Agnes jo je sprejela in Agnes jo je vzljubila.

and Agnes supported her for the year.

Agnes je zanjo skrbela celo leto.

She went to school and she found her voice,

Šla je v šolo in našla svoj glas,

and she found her identity, and she found her heart.

našla je samo sebe in našla je svoje srce.

Then, her time was ready

Potem je prišel čas,

when she had to go back to talk to her father

ko je morala domov in se pobotati

about the reconciliation, after a year.

z očetom, ki ga ni videla eno leto.

I had the privilege of being in the hut

Imela sem to srečo, da sem bila v koči,

when she was reunited with her father and reconciled.

ko sta se oče in hči ponovno srečala.

In that hut, we walked in,

Ko smo stopili v kočo,

and her father and his four wives were sitting there,

so oče in njegove štiri žene sedeli za mizo.

and her sisters who had just returned because

Tam so bile njene sestre, ki so se pravkar vrnile;

they had all fled when she had fled,

pobegnile so namreč, ko je pobegnila ona.

and her primary mother, who had been beaten

Videla je mamo, ki je bila pretepena,

in standing up for her with the elders.

ker se je pri starešinah postavila zanjo.

When her father saw her and saw who she had become,

Ko jo je oče zagledal in videl, kaj je postala,

in her full girl self,

v svoji polni dekliškosti,

he threw his arms around her and broke down crying.

se ji je vrgel okoli vratu, zlomil se je in začel jokati.

He said, "You are beautiful. You have grown into a gorgeous woman.

Rekel je: "Lepa si, zrasla si v prekrasno žensko.

We will not cut you.

Ne bomo te obrezali.

And I give you my word, here and now,

Obljubam ti, tu in zdaj,

that we will not cut your sisters either."

da tudi tvojih sester ne bomo obrezali."

And what she said to him was,

In ona mu je odgovorila:

"You were willing to sell me for four cows,

"Hotel si me prodati za štiri krave,

and a calf and some blankets.

tele in nekaj odej.

But I promise you, now that I will be educated

Ampak, obljubljam ti, ko bom končala šolo,

I will always take care of you,

bom vedno skrbela zate,

and I will come back and I will build you a house.

vrnila se bom in ti zgradila hišo.

And I will be in your corner for the rest of your life."

Pri tebi bom živela do konca tvojega življenja."

For me, that is the power of girls.

Zame to pooseblja moč deklet.

And that is the power of transformation.

To je tudi moč preobrazbe.

I want to close today

Rada bi zaključila

with a new piece from my book.

z odlomkom iz moje knjige.

And I want to do it tonight

To bom nocoj naredila

for the girl in everybody here.

za dekle v vsakemu izmed nas.

And I want to do it for Sunitha.

To bom naredila za Sunitho

And I want to do it for the girls that Sunitha talked about yesterday,

in za dekleta, o katerih je Sunitha govorila včeraj,

the girls who survive, the girls who can become somebody else.

dekleta, ki preživijo, dekleta, ki lahko postanejo nekaj boljšega.

But I really want to do it for each and every person here,

Predvsem bi to rada naredila za vse nas,

to value the girl in us,

da bomo cenili dekle v nas,

to value the part that cries,

da bomo cenili delček nas, ki je sposoben jokati,

to value the part that's emotional,

ki je čustven,

to value the part that's vulnerable,

ki je ranljiv,

to understand that's where the future lies.

da bomo razumeli, kaj nas čaka v prihodnosti.

This is called "I'm An Emotional Creature."

Imenuje se "Sem čustveno bitje."

And it happened because I met a girl in Watts, L.A.

Nastalo je, ko sem srečala dekle iz mesta Watss v LA.

I was asking girls if they like being a girl,

Spraševala sem dekleta, če jim je všeč, da so dekleta

and all the girls were like, "No, I hate it. I can't stand it.

in vse so rekle. "Ne, sovražim to, ne prenesem tega.

It's all bad. My brothers get everything."

Vse je slabše. Mojim bratom je veliko lažje."

And this girl just sat up and went, "I love being a girl.

In to dekle je vstalo in reklo: "Rada sem dekle.

I'm an emotional creature!"

Sem čustveno bitje!"

(Laughter)

(smeh)

This is for her:

To je zanjo.

I love being a girl.

Rada sem dekle.

I can feel what you're feeling

Čutim to, kar čutiš ti,

as you're feeling inside the feeling before.

kar čutiš znotraj in kar si čutil prej.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

Things do not come to me as intellectual theories

Stvari ne dojemam zgolj kot intelektualne teorije

or hard-pressed ideas.

ali kot izrabljene ideje.

They pulse through my organs and legs and burn up my ears.

Utripajo skozi moje organe in noge in pordijo mi ušesa.

Oh, I know when your girlfriend's really pissed off,

Ah, vem kako je, ko je tvoja punca jezna,

even though she appears to give you what you want.

čeprav se zdi, da ugodi tvojim željam.

I know when a storm is coming.

Vem, kdaj se bliža vihar.

I can feel the invisible stirrings in the air.

Čutim nevidna vrtinčenja v zraku.

I can tell you he won't call back. It's a vibe I share.

Lahko ti povem, da ne bo klical. To čutim v zraku.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

I love that I do not take things lightly.

Všeč mi je, da se me stvari dotaknejo.

Everything is intense to me,

Vse dojemam močno.

the way I walk in the street, the way my momma wakes me up,

Način, kako hodim po cesti, kako me mama zjutraj zbudi,

the way it's unbearable when I lose, the way I hear bad news.

kako je grozno, kadar izgubim, kako je, ko slišim slabo novico.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

I am connected to everything and everyone. I was born like that.

Povezana sem z vsakim in vsem. Takšna sem se rodila.

Don't you say all negative

Ne bodite tako negativni,

that it's only only a teenage thing,

rekoč, da je to samo najstniška faza

or it's only because I'm a girl.

ali zaradi tega, ker sem dekle.

These feelings make me better.

Ta čustva me naredijo boljšo.

They make me present. They make me ready. They make me strong.

Naredijo me živo. Naredijo me pripravljeno. Močno.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

There is a particular way of knowing.

To je edinstven način vedenja,

It's like the older women somehow forgot.

zdi se, kot da ga starejše ženske pozabijo.

I rejoice that it's still in my body.

Veseli me, da je še vedno v mojem telesu.

Oh, I know when the coconut's about to fall.

Ah, vem, kdaj je kokos tik pred tem, da pade.

I know we have pushed the Earth too far.

Vem, da smo Zemljo gnali predaleč.

I know my father isn't coming back,

Vem, da se moj oče ne bo vrnil

and that no one's prepared for the fire.

in da nihče ni pripravljen na ogenj.

I know that lipstick means more than show,

Vem, da šminka pomeni več kot videz

and boys are super insecure,

in da so fantje strašno negotovi

and so-called terrorists are made, not born.

in da se teroristi ne rodijo, ampak to postanejo.

I know that one kiss

Vem, da mi lahko en sam poljub

could take away all my decision-making ability.

vzame vso možnost presoje.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

And you know what? Sometimes it should.

In veste kaj? Včasih tako mora biti.

This is not extreme. It's a girl thing,

To ni skrajnost. To je dekliška stvar.

what we would all be if the big door inside us flew open.

To smo lahko vsi, če pustimo, da se vrata v nas na stežaj odprejo.

Don't tell me not to cry, to calm it down,

Ne govori mi, naj ne jočem, naj se pomirim,

not to be so extreme, to be reasonable.

naj ne pretiravam, naj bom razumna.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

It's how the earth got made, how the wind continues to pollinate.

Tako se je rodil svet in tako veter še naprej oprašuje.

You don't tell the Atlantic Ocean to behave.

Nikoli ne boš rekel Atlantiku, naj se lepo obnaša.

I am an emotional creature.

Sem čustveno bitje.

Why would you want to shut me down or turn me off?

Zakaj me hočeš utišati ali ugasniti?

I am your remaining memory.

Jaz sem tvoj živi spomin.

I can take you back.

Lahko te vrnem nazaj.

Nothing's been diluted.

Nič ni zvodenelo.

Nothing's leaked out.

Nič se ni porazgubilo.

I love, hear me, I love

Ljubim, poslušaj me, ljubim,

that I can feel the feelings inside you,

da lahko čutim čustva, ki so v tebi,

even if they stop my life,

pa čeprav tako vplivajo name,

even if they break my heart,

pa čeprav mi zlomijo srce,

even if they take me off track,

tudi, če me speljejo na stranpota,

they make me responsible.

me naredijo bolj odgovorno.

I am an emotional, I am an emotional,

Sem čustveno, sem čustveno,

incondotional, devotional creature.

brezpogojno, vdano bitje.

And I love, hear me,

In rada, poslušajte me,

I love, love, love being a girl.

rada, rada, rada sem dekle.

Can you say it with me?

Lahko to ponovite z mano?

I love, I love, love, love

Rada, rada, rada, rada

being a girl!

sem dekle!

Thank you very much.

Najlepša hvala.

(Applause)

(aplavz)