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thank you so much for being here the

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work it really does mean I exclaimed I’m

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very interested in gender how gender is

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constructed in society we for a long

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time think Oh male female and there’s

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many forms of gender any ways that

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people identify sexually I got very

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interested in that because of the very

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rigid way I was being brought up with in

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my culture and I personally feel very

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connected to video and digital imagery

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because it’s the medium of today like

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it’s what we see on television on

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billboards on hung on our cell phones on

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you know with YouTube it’s it’s the tool

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of today like you know you were saying

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what the sculpture that was made and

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carves a flat today cool is like digital

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technology the first two works that I

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ever did was based on trying to find out

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what my mother was about how she her

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gender was constructed and when my

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father how his generous can start to him

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like well where did that come from right

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my government was raised on the item’s

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of the Azores I egos word in Brazil so I

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did a whole bunch of explorations around

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where that came from from my father is

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his identity for being male and and i

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went to my mother’s side so i explored

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from a religious perspective Catholicism

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where my mom and women of her generation

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but your gender identity so there’s 12

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pieces and in each one the the doll

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character Maria the Virgin Mary Maria

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herself Mary actually appears to Maria

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in each of the scenes to see the

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animation you have to almost religiously

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gem flex and learn the art works

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literally you have to see yet you’re

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envious so like those old particular

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images or the sooner you see and

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religious catholic shops where is Eliza

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Nicole from across I played around a

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technology and so in this case Maria is

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freshly washed bedsheets the Virgin Mary

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appears on them after they wash then you

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know there’s a little bunch of other

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things that Maria goes through this one

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is a folk dances of religious folk dance

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within this one she’s being coy and

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Roman sexual and it’s funny because not

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supposed to really be able to see under

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the witness skirts but it is part of the

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t’s I think the Attorney instinct so

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she’s over indulging in the berries she

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was full screen as a metaphor for sexual

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indulgence whether or not people get it

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I was being settled with a lot of them

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in the end it finishes with the last one

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she becomes

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the bridge appear yourself but if we

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incarnated it around birds and bees I

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would like to address here are three RM

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nature and you know this cultural

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attention is our HR all the time so that

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was the RIA series I’m going to jump now

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to this one here and I’ll show it to you

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it’s a large touchscreen at the time I

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was really impressed actually is the

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word by my technical collaborators

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because touchscreen technology wasn’t in

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its infancy at its line and I asked them

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if they do this the technical

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collaborators are Jim resin and merius

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chevelle here Isabella and soul show you

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the work it’s an exploration of the

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first female moons in cinema the image

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that you’ll see and it is Audrey months

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in the first move female to appear nude

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in cinema mainstream cinema

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team in a field called inspiration so

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she’s made up of a whole bunch of other

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videos little miniature videos of the

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other first video news

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I’m just going to lower the audio what

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you’re hearing are the actual clips of

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the other piece as you touch in certain

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places so all that shimmering which I

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like to call the silver shimmering

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silver screen is actually made up of a

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whole bunch of other movies so I love me

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an energetic component and layering of

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history intense culture and in a way

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conceptually more than other way than

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literally

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Oh play at all just to give you a sense

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of it I collaborated with people who

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identify as women and I asked them to

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contribute either video or audio or

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bolts of themselves soft pleasure e and

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this was very important for many women

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to participate in this because it wasn’t

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no an artwork that I felt was just on me

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but an artwork that politicizes central

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agency so it was a political work it’s

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hard to see the image you can see it on

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my screen better a little bit you’re

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just people on the ground playing with

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you

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we’re very large projection screen on

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the ceiling but since Brian McMillan

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working projecting it on the mirror to

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get a larger distance right to go my

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shine Martindale to the projection

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frames lug people of B is amazing what

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your music marketer and artist that’s

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the projection screen and it got lifted

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up by pulley system this is a picturing

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it really see that people so much on the

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ground that this is about what it was

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like all sixties or seventies parties

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what it felt and funny enough the second

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exhibition was at a sacred sexuality

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consciousness conference where I met my

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partner there

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but this is the kind of stuff that was

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going on you know like people doing

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different workshops around sexuality and

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believe it or not the artwork actually

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became a plate playgrounds for people to

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play under it so let’s try it so

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somebody’s got a pink one and somebody’s

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about everyone

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so the sounds are here

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videos are

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when you turn it what it does is

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actually changing video and the volume

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but in this is the video with

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interpretation or team self the color

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desaturate said anything it does is and

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actually adds an audio filter that

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sounds like a cold dry it’s hard

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to distinguish it with the other ones

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but it’s uh it just changes the sound

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alumina sounds a little bit who’s got

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the paint Pink’s back there got what it

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does is actually speeds up the degree

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that it readings and it also stretches

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the sound and stretches it like makes it

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almost like a whale sound it produces

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numbers because it’s communicating

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through bluetooth with the computer

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those coordinates or numbers are pushed

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into the software and tells the soccer

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what to do that concept I feel strongly

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that it was a cool like the economy and

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people getting women to contribute part

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of each and pretty process the delivery

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of it well I think what people gotta

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admit they didn’t really know what it

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was about and they were underneath this

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Kennedy of you know kaleidoscope and

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surround sound they were like more

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animed of state wish which was actually

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really quite a big part of my interests

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within sacred sexuality and this

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in touch with your inner being and you

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know feeling like your body isn’t just

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here or physical where your skin stops I

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was interested in those concepts so in

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that sense yes the evil people were

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getting me and held in it they were

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really like some of it like oh the

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interface and just you know allow

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themselves almost to meditate and

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underneath it so that part yes but the

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other part the concept of the interstate

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of sexuality of the women experience got

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lost I personally didn’t feel like it

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was a problem for me but yes some people

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know there’s a disconnect yeah that’s it

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bye though really really interesting

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part of what I’m hearing is that part of

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this project was the women experiencing

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controlling their own sexuality so what

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I’d really interesting as he said that

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they were just way too many things that

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the controllers are doing there were too

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many different visual and sound effects

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so when you’re this Rodney is the

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difficulty of someone trying to take

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control of those women’s sexuality and

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interesting and they can’t do it doesn’t

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work it’s a yeah it’s a lot experience

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but it’s the people who didn’t try to

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control it who just lay there and

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observed it might have enjoyed it the

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most I just yes that’s what me I really

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stood out to me what you were saying

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just now and sometimes we’re creating

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and I know I’m not trying to justify

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that it works on the level that you just

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said maybe it does maybe

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exactly the missing link that I didn’t

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have what you just explain it is

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ultimately about power you know putting

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and we were creating real multi-member

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working intuitively and I’m not trying

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to take credit but I do feel like I was

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in some way grappling with that if I

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felt the most powerful particle jet was

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actually the process of England’s

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opinion and stories that they were

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coming back to me with that I didn’t

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share that didn’t get Sharon and it was

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like the process of the art meeting for

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me was the the art and the presentation

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that where people are handling the

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interfaces the only way that I can

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explain that I’ve seen it interfaces is

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like getting it but like engaging in the

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inner state of sexual experience that

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these women

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and but the reason I’m so interested in

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section a sexual agencies this my own

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experience might believe that many many

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people would advise women also have

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similar experience our sexual desire our

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pleasure is so directly linked to being

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the object of desire right what is our

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desire aside from being the object of

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the diary and why is our pleasure what

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like how do we take pleasure Jose and

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grew up with like being the object of

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desire and really like I feel pleasure

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or desire from that still but unlike

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whales until I have been training myself

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to look to be to gaze also and that’s

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just part of it and I know it means i’m

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turning somebody else into an object of

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desire but but i don’t think as women

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weird but it’s not okay to do that so

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much thanks so much for I feel too very

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selfish thing to be able to share this I

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really do value your interest and your

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time for suit for sitting

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so thank you

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you

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