The transgender conversation has just begun | Nina Arsenault | TEDxToronto

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  • Опубліковано 6 гру 2015
  • On October 22, 2015, some of Toronto’s greatest thinkers and change-makers joined together onstage at TEDxToronto to deliver powerful talks and performances that embodied our theme, Thresholds.
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    Nina Arsenault is a multi¬discipline artist (dance, theatre, video, photography, reality TV and popular print journalism) who has worked nationally and internationally to critical acclaim and controversy, exploring the limits of sex, gender, beauty, the sacred and the profane, as well as the potentials for furthering the rights and dignities of transwomen.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

КОМЕНТАРІ • 153

  • @lynnethermann7966
    @lynnethermann7966 8 років тому +33

    brilliant. just check the comments & see how right Nina is.

  • @tangledfish
    @tangledfish 4 роки тому +14

    Five years on and I still cry at the end of this speech. Truth.

  • @kristinb8268
    @kristinb8268 8 років тому +53

    She is right much of our history has been erased and that history does go back thousands and thousands of years. I really enjoyed her talk because she did it as a piece of political performance and theatre I guess is the mix it felt like to me. But yes she is right each interaction that a trans person has with a cisgender
    on-trans person may be the first for the cisgender person, but it could be our 10th just that day and like the ten thousandth since we came out. So that really cracked me up when she said that. Great talk and many valid points and questions were raised <3

  • @JelenaVermilion
    @JelenaVermilion 3 роки тому +18

    "I believe you can be witnessed to death." Profound.

  • @ThrifterPickerShipper
    @ThrifterPickerShipper 6 років тому +22

    Best Ted Talk I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. Hands down. So good Nina, so good.

  • @zariahnongrata2257
    @zariahnongrata2257 8 років тому +30

    This is powerful.

  • @marciabogoyavlensky7905
    @marciabogoyavlensky7905 8 років тому +46

    Nina so right this really touched my heart so true everything this woman said

  • @InsomniaOwl952
    @InsomniaOwl952 7 років тому +25

    she is a really good performer/ public speaker

  • @marcelloshumann1417
    @marcelloshumann1417 6 років тому +7

    She is very intelligent, a good performer and even if she is artificial, she has a special feminine beauty. Attractivity on a upper level.

  • @jjgoller2889
    @jjgoller2889 7 років тому +15

    I'm lookin at the comments and everything Nina has said is so true.

  • @johnnj3858
    @johnnj3858 7 років тому +12

    Strength, intelligence, wit, humor and stunningly beautiful.

  • @Dan-ji2gw
    @Dan-ji2gw 7 років тому +38

    OMG that was great Nina thank you for speaking up for us. And you are so right, it's so much easier to just stay home and not face the discrimination. You get so tired of the same disapproving looks, the can I help you SIR.

  • @JudesViews
    @JudesViews 8 років тому +10

    such a wake up...thankyou for speaking the truth.... we need it.

  • @nami3359
    @nami3359 8 років тому +19

    had mixed feelings thru it all but the end really touched me and i got a clearer view at the end.

  • @keonijohn9999
    @keonijohn9999 7 років тому +21

    one of the most powerful talks ever, deeply touched my heart and opened it.

  • @krynski1
    @krynski1 5 років тому +5

    Perfect Point, Perfectly Made. Thank You So Much Nina

  • @CountessCarmilla
    @CountessCarmilla 7 років тому +4

    Wow! When it ended I said that was really awesome, and realized I had a lump in my throat.

  • @stephcooper5998
    @stephcooper5998 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you Nina. Your voice speaks my internal anger and my voice will be found.

  • @l.e.fromthevoid.5166
    @l.e.fromthevoid.5166 6 років тому +14

    This touched my heart and deeply inspired me as a trans youth.

  • @quinnmays4724

    A wonderfully powerful storyteller who mixes performance and critique.