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my mom says that I’m not curling my

Mom says that I ‘m not a crefat but that

I was annoyed by the hair that I left

there as that rule do not take advantage cream

to comb then like that if it’s like

let me go then practically the

truth is that it was very convincing because

at the beginning of my life I had a hair

very long and the arrival of melo de se

I totally entangled every night they arrive

versions press these giants on top

put one channel after another after another all

and super tight and painful so that I

I would have and my hair does not curl for

then I had beautiful hair true

long but it was not frizzy it was very

convincing my mother as a child created

by wolves

I believed that I was not curled then

I kept holding my hair

basically true I was being teased what

tied if against my scalp

impressively in all my years of

adolescence

He looked like a metalhead

and the worst thing is that the little monkeys that

I put it like it was busting me in the

hair and then towards a frieze that I

it would placate with a lot of gel really a

disastrous thing

during all those years of my life I

had a characteristic part a part

fundamental of my denied erased to the

strength be they would only have said west

cut the hair that is that the

Adult men need not

have long hair

then they would have killed a part

very strong roses one hit then

advertising would basically have been

voided true and there suddenly

we would understand how when a foreign voice

it is imposed on us then we are erased

fundamental part of who we are

I know that my mom did not want to frustrate

milú that that was not his intention is already

I was trying to guide me second

they have instilled all their life because

it is historically the hair

Crespo has been connected as a concert

disheveled the lower class then

for my mom a woman as straight hair

the glamorous one had a lot of class and goes to

get easier husband because he had

face of knowing how to sew old age had

true ironing had cliba face and

very good for her a woman with hair

smooth was never going to be discriminated against ever

will be rejected

all of these are obviously imaginary

but she thought it was a crepe

word is a part of what I am

a characteristic of me and load like

with all this all this stigma in the

mind of many people including me

mother and I inherited it for a long time

because there are words with which one

load throughout life and

they end up as determining parts

essentials of who is one of how one

it relates to oneself as it

related to the others become yokes

that do not let one be in freedom

when he was little he was taught or

adjectives and 80 and they say fat skinny

white or black and one of the learns and already

each of those words have a

meaning for example fat of

abundant meat, they forgive me and the

vegan but to me that sounds very rich

it seems fantastic to me, fat man is

fat is the antonym of skinny is not the

antagonist is not the villain is not

synonymous with careless or ugly

all those value judgments are the

they added later and that ‘s what

we do because today in today’s society

for us fat for many people

is a word that makes them suffer and that

It makes them sick and that makes them feel

wrong with themselves is one word

that does not mean all the synonyms that

we adhere to it unnecessarily when they are

the university had a friend

wound that suffered a lot because there was no

found at the university a man

with which to marry and procreate because

for her being a woman was being a mother and being

mom and I told him but before if not

you can give birth or if you get married but then you

divorces that happens where you have to

return the ovaries or with the thing can

true because we really could not

define them from a single word or a

alone not a single name in one thing

it’s as if society often tells us

I would like to pigeonhole like that because it’s more

easy as cataloging us of that

way as if we lived in a

Mexican soap opera in the bad mala

she is bad there is no way is the eyebrow and

bad bad idea not to take

slapping everywhere in the hand of the

music that comes out when it’s already out

being the lion king

she the bad only the bad but

really life is not like that one does not

it is only one thing nor does it have the

obligation to behave according to a single

title of what one is supposed to be

then who defines what we are and

how to feel with that we are who

define the words with which we

describe because if those voices always

come from outside are the voices of

others

then they end up being loads that

really one does not carry with conviction not

it ends up being dragged with them because

there are many words that are telling us

throughout our lives as

that we are growing

some are very well-intentioned

they are saying with love for example

how every time my mom sees me and says

there you are perfect is that we pay but

they may not be for a European

I’m not for you right now I’m

absolutely that rule

if I go through a beauty salon

it has also happened

the cosmetologist sees me and chases me there

it came to do the eyebrows what a wonder

and I know how it’s not happening I have

to understand that for her

with everything she studied in the

logic of it in the reality of it

what happens in my face is a

disaster that must be contained and that is

well because it’s the reality of it

when I understand that she says it does not

for offending me but because it is the scope

of your world and your universe

I can laugh with her too I do not

I’m letting it grow more the wicks

Californian your true and I can

relax

however sometimes these words well

be with good intention or in other

occasions when they are very sadly with

bad intention because they mark us the

life when they are insults

it’s something very different because there is not worth

so much to understand the reality of the other

how to understand that sometimes we are

saying part of who we are but

using the against us as

abuse

if someone is trying to tell me that he is a fan

as an insult is using a

fundamental part of what I am

to leave also when someone

says another fat gay are not looking

describe it to 1 are not looking to give the

information

when someone says black is not

looking to inform that person of his

condition are looking to hurt him

it’s more they are doing everything possible

so that person feels for

below so that he feels ashamed to be

what is

so that you feel that in some way what

he is is something bad some right is

something unacceptable

there is a French philosopher called day

of lemon

he talks about this subject of insult and

insult and a very beautiful way and says

this wounded and ashamed conscience of

itself becomes an element

constitutive of your personality

when he talks about that he is

referring to how these insults when

they insult us with what we are

seek to make us feel just the

embarrassment that we are going to charge for many

years or you sit in the chair of

the shame in which they are

putting they want you to sit

how they see you as if they were the

truth of who you are and many times

they do it

one feels embarrassed on the one hand

fundamental of a girls that we carry

our name will be accompanied by the

push word we would not end up saying

I know because the school the words

create realities and condition how we

we behave with ourselves with the

others as is our self-perception

our self-esteem

once a presentation is achieved in

television and it was wonderful because I

they have a beauty salon and not the

man that was going to motivate me because I

I was going to cut my hair, I think of myself

rough diamond

I believe that there is a disaster is true

but he cut my hair so that I cry

I could miss my hair as it came

doing all my life was in

capacity was impossible to tie her from that

way

from one moment to another in a way

sudden I had to assume myself as

he crinkles and looks at me in the mirror and says b but

this is not as bad

in fact it was much better it was much

freer the day an acre sfa accepts

its curls is the day on which

start to feel really beautiful

because those people who earn a change

extreme

and they arrive they cut the hair to him and

feels totally different

they do not feel different because

they cut the hair but because in that fair

they can instantly feel that they look at each other

come from another point of view I stop

try to laminate mind it with gum

stop trying to tie melo at all times

that I was free because if my

nature outside that of straight hair

I would not have to make so many efforts

miserable for having it

from time to time then do not ask for

a little party but you think step and when

started this year did a season

because I’m a comedian, my first

season the loner will be bad woman and

I gathered many routines that I did through

of the years

where the album or I expose how

I feel

facing the fact that I’m not like that

It must be that it seems to exist for many

women and there are many who do not

we are like that and there are many who

we use tennis but heels or those that

we never want to give birth or the one that does not

We want to serve a husband but also

That is quite true is another type of

woman because also those that have

children and because also those who perform

the hair every time they go to work are

bravest not waking up an hour

first you have to really applaud them and

I could expose all this but also in

I found the interviews incredible

because every time people do

I was asking about the title of the work

the woman calls me and then very rude

and is or what

and I did not go to the husband, he drinks a lot

talk about sex

so every time I heard that

it was for them bad woman understood that

they were not talking about the concept of what

that for them it was the duty to be of a

woman and therefore if a woman can not

talk about how much you enjoy sex if

woman can not be messed up but I

yes

and I’m a woman and that does not make me a

bad woman that’s just about me

what I think is that the place

suffer ashamed for what we are

we should reappropriate the words

that are part of our ce for

feel proud of who we are

we need to name us ourselves

Do not expect others to define us because

there are many definitions that are

losses between comparisons that not that

it does not even have logic like when

you say to hit like a girl or commit

like a cow or couriers as you will see

flower is not only that we are

trying to define through some

connotations that do not go with his word

but will dictate a biology course

Because a flower does not correct a cow

eat grass and a girl can kick her

rear

the words that define us are

Ours do not have to belong to

the people who want to throw the

Insults belong to those who

they carry them as their identity and they

they have to resignify carlas

to be able to show them as something worthy of

pride that is not an insult that you

say ‘big fat lesbian you think faffe a

that if someone uses any

these words as an insult that

answer with yes yes I am and the woman I

I used comedy to make a satire

of all those voices that said that

my way of being was not the right one

you have to unlearn those links

appropriate our words because

if we do it they can not hurt us like

They intend to hurt us or condition us

as you wish

do not believe the other visions of

people but claim the meaning of

our words unlearn for

learn to do who we really are

everyone here is making us some

word what is yours

useless pea

nuisance because I told them that my

Mom says that I’m not a crush but I

I said that they have told me in my voice

the life that I am not a woman or by my way

of being that I am the antichrist because I am

comedian then I can not do something

serious as a ted talk but here

we are what words define them you are

today who I tell you because soon those

voices are speaking louder than

his

what is your voice that what defines you

comes from outside

remember who they were before they

they said who should be many

Thank you

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