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"Persist, Resist, Survive" from Shapeshifters | THEatre ACCELERATOR Spring 2021

Name: "Persist, Resist, Survive" from Shapeshifters | THEatre ACCELERATOR Spring 2021
Uploaded: 2021-03-30T15:17:11+00:00
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Channel: Tim Kashani
Description: A spoken-word performance about surviving systemic oppression through persistence and code-switching. The speaker asks why people are kept confined, then…

30 Mar 2021 · 2 min

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A spoken-word performance about surviving systemic oppression through persistence and code-switching. The speaker asks why people are kept confined, then frames resistance as shapeshifting—adapting identities to survive while refusing silence—and ends with a call for collective pride and living boldly.

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Persist, resist, survive. Why do they keep us in cages? Why do they keep us in cages? Do they keep us in cages to keep us from going to school? Do they keep us in cages to keep us from breaking the rules? Do they keep us in cages because they're afraid of our love, afraid of our beauty, afraid of our blood? Tell me, why do they keep us Why do they keep us in cages? They keep us in cages to keep our temper sane. They keep us in cages to make us grow up in shame, make us turn out the same. They keep us in cages so we don't make a sound. They keep us in cages to keep us from burning them, burning them, burning them to the ground. Why do they keep us in cages? Why do they keep us in cages? You're a shapeshifter, you persist to survive. If you're a code switcher, flip the script, stay alive. Let's ignite for a night, we made our history. We get loud, we proud, we live colorfully, publicly. Colorfully, publicly. Shapeshifters! Shapeshifters! Towards nature, forth into exploration, pride. We're every tribe, every race, a shapeshifter.