00:00Why do you think that to a women's hard to say, I'm feminist?
00:03The question is not new, and the writer Nigerian Chimamanda Noushi also made it.
00:08In addition to an extensive literary work, Chimamanda is the author of one of the TED's
00:12most seen, converted later in a essay, and titled just Why Todos Deberíamos Ser Feministas.
00:17But before becoming a feminist and one of the most influential on feminism, she also did not nominate herself.
00:32Chimamanda grew up in Nigeria, and she didn't think of herself as black or as a racial minority.
00:38That she learned later, when she moved to the United States.
00:42Migration, racism, belonging to two places and to none, all of that appears in her novels,
00:46not as a theory, but as part of her own experience.
00:49But there is something that is always repeated. Chimamanda insists that the problem is not only
00:53the desiguality, but the story that they tell us about it.
00:56I realized that people like me, girls with skin, the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair
01:02could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
01:06I started to write about things I recognized.
01:10This is how to create a single story. Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over
01:17and over again, and that is what they become.
01:19During years, she did not want to use the word feminist, because she knew that she would not
01:23be heard the same, until she decided something simple, but powerful, not from the term, but
01:28to explain. That's how it was born, because we all should be feminists.
01:31Not as a sign, but as an open conversation.
01:34What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if, in raising children,
01:42we focus on interest instead of gender? Culture does not make people. People make culture.
01:49So, if it is, in fact, true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we must
02:00make it our culture.
02:02That line feminist and colonial is present in all of her work.
02:06For example, in Querida Ewell or Cómo educar al feminismo, se cuestiona la desigualdad de
02:10género.
02:11In Americana, explora cómo género, raza y clase moldean la identidad y las relaciones de
02:16poder.
02:17Y en el caso de Medio Sol Amarillo, coloca a mujeres complejas en el centro del conflicto
02:21histórico y político.
02:23Para ella, la verdadera transformación empieza en cómo hablamos, cómo criamos, cómo miramos
02:28al otro.
02:28Su voz ha sido fundamental para las mujeres, especialmente para las jóvenes negras y afrofeministas,
02:34mostrándoles una realidad en la que verse reflejadas sin tener que explicarse ni pedir
02:38permiso.
02:39¿Te acuerdas de la pregunta que te hice al inicio?
02:41¿Por qué es importante nombrarnos feministas?
02:44Porque mientras no lo hacemos, la desigualdad sigue pareciendo algo difuso, sin responsables,
02:49sin historia.
02:50Nombrarse feministas no es solo una etiqueta, es una forma de cuestionar los privilegios, de
02:54no conformarse, de hacer frente a la opresión.
02:56Es una forma de decir, esto que vivimos no es individual, es estructural y quiero formar
03:01parte del cambio.
03:02A veces, una voz clara, como la de Chimamanda, es suficiente para que toda una generación
03:07empiece a llamarse por su nombre.
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