Poet and Trans Activist Bay Davis’ Powerful Words For Those Who “Know Grief By His First Name”
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Bay’s spoken word performance opened the closing plenary of our #MakeGoodFamous Summit which announced Dwyane Wade as our Elevate Prize Catalyst Award winner and launched his new Translatable initiative.
We’re honored to share this poem with you all. Thank you, Bay.
ABOUT THE MAKE GOOD FAMOUS SUMMIT:
The Make Good Famous Summit is an annual convening that brings forth some of the most innovative cross-sector minds to positively disrupt the impact landscape and to be a place of connection. Our goal is to spark fresh ideas by challenging conventional thinking, fostering an inclusive and loving community, sparking innovation, and inspiring people to take action to ‘do good’ in their own communities.
In 2024, we asked the question: In this era of extreme divisiveness, how can we harness the power of culture to bring us together and forge community?
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SHE is beautiful, STRONG and talented. She spoke to my heart and I LISTENED. She spoke volumes, she spoke of a lifetime…and, BAY, I LISTENED. Gratitude for sharing your talent and allowing us to be a part of your story, as if viewing a painting full of rich color and thought provoking textures….BLESSINGS AND BLESSINGS AND BLESSINGS…peace beautiful butterfly 🦋
He*
He, and no, he is jot
Chromosomes and a dead skeleton prove HE
@@kozjazz iT is none of that.
Well I have new favorite poet!
I don’t believe you had a favourite poet to begin with. You do what the internet tells you. Now this man is your favourite poet 😂
@@danhom1623 1. This is a woman.
2. What the internet tells me? This video has 200 likes, not 2 million.
3. my favorite poet prior to this was Alan Ginsberg, specifically ‘Howl.’
How are you this mad about someone liking a poem?
@@TheNormExperience seems like you’re the one who’s mad.
I can google poetry as well 🐑
Google? Seriously? I’m not allowed to read books? Before Ginsberg my favorite was Pablo Neruda, prior to that was Walt Whitman, and before that e.e. Cummings. All very well known authors…
I’m not required to justify my personal opinion because you don’t like it - if I did, THAT would be doing whatever the internet tells me.
@@TheNormExperience google search famous poets. Good job.
Your desire to seem smart in the comment section has clouded your common sense. I don’t care about your favourite poet, I was just teasing you. Definitely get off of this guys nuts though.
This is crap…. Freaking circus show we r the Laughing stock of the world .
Too powerful to not share on all social platforms. Had to do it. As a fellow poet of trans experience. Had to do it.
Team 2024
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It takes intellect to understand this poem and it’s message & appreciate it. Something that a lot of people that want to be blind watching this video don’t have
@@Lea-Arthur-Faure or maybe they are just regular people who don’t like the poem. CZcams recommends and pushes shite like this because it aligns with the agenda they are trying to push. A of people are tired of this type of content being pushed on them. Imagine if they started pushing right wing Christian content on people who frequently watch left leaning videos. They would probably get annoyed by it after a while.
Awfully in love with this 💛 got goosebumps all over
A lot of the people in these comments need to reevaluate their relationship with God and need to do some heavy self reflection. How dare you spit on someone else's truth. Just because it is not your path, doesn't mean that it is necessarily the wrong path, there are multiple roads that lead to God and there are just as many that lead people to peace. This world has truly fallen, but it is not because of the reasons many of you think. It is not because of the diversity, nor the divergence of paths among people themselves, no it is because we live in a world of closed minded, hateful, and judgemental people who will do everything in their power to break down another human being and are so obsessed with one facet of a person that they can not, and will not see anything else about them. You should be truly ashamed to call yourself a follower of god if all you reflect and give out to others is hate and judgement. Jesus hated hypocrisy more than anything.
Jesus hated gays
You should read the bible…
@@thebigvoice7257 maybe you should reread your own. I read every day and that is exactly how I can confidently stand by my word. Luke 6:37 says " Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive snd you will be forgiven." Instead of playing god and telling others what they should be doing with their lives, or how to be the best version of themselves, perhaps we should focus on our own lives first. Once again, there are many paths that lead to God. And while I understand that some people may not fundamentally agree with the choices others make for themselves, we often seem to forget that we don't have to. God makes ways where there are none and if we were all fated to walk the same path there would be no point to individuality or a distinction/ difference between people as a whole. However, as "Christians" since that's what so many of you claim to be, we ARE supposed to lead with compassion, serve with grace and understanding, and above all treat one another as if we are the children of the most high God. You're own personal walk may not allow you to agree with this view, and that is you're right if you so choose, I can only pray that somewhere along the line you come to realize for yourself that this is the true meaning of what our role is as worshipers of God. Have a blessed one. 🙏🏽
@@Shea.Coco03 Your misjudgment with Luke 6:37 already told me enough. Read the whole scripture about judgement… Don’t just read the do not judge and mix that in with other scriptures. You don’t understand the bible that you read. I’m not even going to entertain your nonsense. If the bible only says do not judge and you will not be judged, it’s contradicting.
@@thebigvoice7257 The only nonsense I see is you're logic, God judges all. If you are not God then what makes you qualified to judge another person when you yourself are an imperfect human being? If you think yourself exempt from humanity, then you are surely mistaken. Last I checked there was only one immortal who came to earth in human flesh, and it definitely wasn't you. Now with that in mind I have said my peace and I'm good with that. I refuse to entertain ignorance and considering that I, nor anyone else praise god, do not receive my salvation through you; your opinion is irrelevant.
Ok sir
😂.. cause what
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There you go!!!! I really wish that you guys would stop insulting trans we have not did anything to you but wish to coexist in the world with you. And you're calling this person serve for what we already know what she was born respect how she identifies y'all love to pull that sir crap. Because it's all you have one thing about it I bet you she ain't ugly. Dang you black people make me sick and this is coming from a black person me
In her identifying as a woman does not stop you from being a woman. Please stop it with the shenanigans.
@@yourbossismyslave3409 I must have missed something cuz I didn't say anything funny at all. Your ignorance is pretty hilarious though
Thank you for amazing, inspiring poetry that is so true to our community
This is beautiful & she delivered it beautifully
It’s a guy
It’s a guy
@@Austin-vo2gh it's a guy it's a guy it's a guy it's a guy it's a guy it's a guy that's all you all focus on why don't you consider the beautiful soul that resides within that being the beautiful soul that you are missing out on because your focus on what gender they are which is the least important look into a person's soul like you would want someone to look into yours. Yes we know that they were born a guy I guess you thought you were though and I still can't understand why do human beings focus so much on gender I've been trying to figure that out so long why are y'all focused on gender More than Love but y'all so focused on it's a guy it's a guy it's a guy you know what's so amazing y'all don't do that to trans men you'll only do that to trans women because you want someone to be trapped in a body that they don't identify with you want them to be born like that you want them to live like that and you want them to die like that and dare them to go against how you think that they should live y'all really need to stop it. It's her body and she can identify as she chooses. Who are you????
Man oh man
Also a crap poem
Never been so close to god (the one with a capital G? The one who created man and woman in his image?) You’ve never been closer to your own desires. That is your god.
You are generations!Generations that end with you, cause you ain’t having a child of your own.
You are strong! Often the strongest woman in the room! Stronger than most biological women; yep that checks out.
You’re well-spoken, articulate, and queer, oh and illogical. That’s about it.
This man gave a nice talk. Good for him. Hes wild though. He’s made some odd life choices with his male body self.
This is a man.
@@Khokhol1499 well as a member of the trans community my question to you is what does it have to do with you? Number two who are you to judge number 3 if they are trans will it stop you from getting a paycheck will it stop you from thriving number four you know blessed will that individual does not identify as he and I noticed that you put emphasis on he because you think you're doing some kind of a reveal and you're trying to do all you can to go against what they identify as. You know exactly what you're doing and I think that is condescending but as far as what they did with their body that is something that does not concern you after all it's not your body. Now I suggest that you go and pick up a book or do some research on how a person becomes transgender and what compel them to live in the truth as opposed to sending your bias hate. I tell you some of y'all are so mean-hearted a negative but of course knowing you people you won't. Oh and by the way you're not funny. You're actually pretty sad intolerant and judgemental
@@Khokhol1499 and I still meant what I said you're ignorant
@@Khokhol1499 I think you're deleting comments what a coward you are
Because it's a lie and people should not be forced to cosign insanity
truly a beautiful work of art 🩷 much love
💗💗💗💗
Thank you for showing vulnerability and strength in the same breathe
I think about strange fruit and the nuances of being both black and queer and fighting for black when black Trump queer and black queers die by Black hands and black don’t see queer, not even in death.
The poem, black rage by Janae Johnson
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THUMBS DOWN
@@dloren2010 thumbs up
Aw nice
This world is a melting pot✨
Waaaaaaaack.
@@dloren2010 who you? Palm Bay so hard on yourself
@@user-mh1nn9wi5o Speak English Please…who you? And Palm Bay? Sorry I don’t speak PDFILE…
Monkeypox might stop you...
Interesting. Why "woman" and not "person"
Seems antagonizing to women. Or is that the quiet part that no one wants to admit?
Rest bro rest
Speak on it.
😂😂😂😂😂
Wtf is wrong w/our society?
I wonder why he’s always the most powerful woman in a room 😂. Use the men’s washroom please sir.
FREAK SHOW!
This is a joke and any real woman is not standing with this bullshit
Talking about a real woman if you were a real woman then you would not be messed up about the duplicate but that's all black people talk about who's gay who's trans who's sleeping with who that is a topic of black people's conversation day in and day out which is why you're not evolving any. And if you don't understand how someone is trans I suggest you go get a book and educate yourself as to why a person is trans or gay or lesbian or any of those things. Study study study stop running your mouth about something that you don't understand. And remember just because you feel that way doesn't necessarily mean that other people feel that way. But since you do feel that way go build your platform and stand your ass on stage indoor poem. Because what I see is this young lady on stage doing her thing and doing it with passion. HATER!!!
And no she is not biologically a woman but yes she is a woman identified and beautifully so. Your opinion don't mean Jack.
100%
This is a man masquerading as a woman because it gives him a sexual thrill. That’s a real thing. Google it.
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