We conclude our AANHPI Heritage Month video series celebrating Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Caitlyn Clark’s poem highlighting Korean customs and queer intersectionality.
HRC celebrates and honors Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a video series that aims to spotlight the beauty, talent, boldness and resilience of the AANHPI community while also highlighting the intersectionality of LGBTQ AANHPI identities and communities. The inspiration for this campaign arose from the intent to create platforms for LGBTQ AANHPI voices at a time when legislatures across the U.S. are targeting LGBTQ people and when AANHPI people are experiencing unprecedented levels of hate-filled harassment and violence.
Our AANHPI Heritage Month campaign consists of a spoken word video series in partnership with Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Youth Speaks. The videos, featuring three young LGBTQ AANHPI spoken word artists, bring visibility to the legacy of issues impacting people who live at the intersections of LGBTQ and AANHPI identities.
https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-celebrat…
Transcript provided by YouTube (unedited)
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[Music]
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let no one mistake us for the fruit of
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violence
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but that violence having passed through
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the fruit
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failed to spoil it
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ocean wong
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the women in my family apologize with a
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cut fruit
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the korean word for apple is the same
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word for apology
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we offer fruits to mourn our dead and
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despite all of this
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this country has never offered apologies
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or fruits of any kind
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yet
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still we exist here
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still
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we blossom in soil they tried to poison
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my mother
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talks to her plants every morning
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says touching dirt is good for your
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spirit
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and what a miracle this is
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to grow somewhere we once had no roots
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there is no korean word for queer
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but there is a word for survival
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there is a word for love
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there is a word for apple or apology
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there is a word for pear or ship or
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stomach which is to say there is a word
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for vessel
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perhaps
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this is enough for us now
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[Music]
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[Music]
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This post was previously published on YouTube.
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