Laerte-se Page #6

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Sometimes I go for a walk

to the shops and back,

and that's what's needed

for something to be triggered.

Like an interesting idea.

What is an interesting idea?

It is something

that gives me a mental erection.

Oh... That!

-This comic strip, was it in your head?

-No.

It went into my head as I was doing it.

I mean, the characters,

the ones I am using in this series,

they are busts.

The people here are busts.

And they use different languages.

The issue of moral authority.

"You have no moral authority to say this."

I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.

ANYTHING YOU SAID WOULD NOT BE

BASED ON ANY MORAL AUTHORITY.

-WATCH OUT.

-INCLUDING 'WATCH OUT'

My problem with the strips

was to spell out rules.

The idea that I was spelling rules out.

The idea that my opinion

is going

to be exposed there

as someone talking on a pulpit,

to people listening.

And this makes me

completely embarrassed.

The idea that my opinion

will guide people is very frightening.

Very frightening.

OUT, DILMA

Imagine writing comics strips

in this climate.

I should know this, as during

the dictatorship, everything was simple.

Good and evil.

Dictatorship and opposition.

Out, PT!

What is being independent at the moment?

What is being autonomous at the moment?

I look at the last strips I did

and they are all in line

with a certain idea.

That a coup is being articulated.

The idea that the protagonists of this

coup are a weird mix of PMDB and PSDB,

with high dosages of evangelicalism.

And what about the rest?

Are the rest good?

Are they bulletproof?

We don't need to worry about

the directives of the PT government,

from the past 12 years.

It was different governments.

We don't need to worry?

How about Belo Monte? Everything okay?

This thing that happened

with the retired people...

So...

No, it's not.

It's not.

GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE

Out, Temer!

Out, Temer!

The times we are living through

are not times for playing.

Nobody is relaxed. You know this, right?

Out, Temer!

Nobody is. On neither side.

Everybody is tense.

Anything that happens... bam!

Calm down! Calm down!

Get together!

Come in, Larcio!

Come, Larcio, come!

VANDALISM!

I recognize a specific line of argument

as more productive.

That is the line known as the left.

Even though I think

that the left is not all blessings,

I recognize myself in their ideas.

The idea of change.

RIGHT - LEF Of looking for respect for change,

of questioning things.

WIND:

And I think that the right

can be recognized...

CUP 2014

...as the opposite of that,

as refusing the changes

and maintaining traditions at all costs,

just because they are traditions.

Conservatism as formulated today

admits changes

as long as they are very slow.

Hi, Laerte!

Can you tell us what happened?

I don't know. I was trying to get on...

I was trying to get on

and I couldn't,

there were too many people.

Then, repression started down there.

We came here to try to get out

and it seems like...

I don't know what is going on out there.

But they are closing the door.

Out, Alckmin!

Do you feel stuck to a public image?

Yes, I do.

You have never been this public before.

No, I haven't.

I would like to know

what lipstick you wear.

Goodness me, I can show you.

He will show it, record it.

I WILL VOTE FOR IMPEACHMEN BECAUSE THE TIMES CALL FOR SOBRIETY.

Because at my age,

with lips like mine, all cracked,

the cracks appear more than the lips do.

You don't know

if the lip is like this or like this.

They're all over the place.

This lipstick is interesting,

I like this color.

FIRST OF ALL, I AM A SHAM.

-I...

-MAIL.

SYRIAN REFUGEES:

HAVE ENTERED YOUR KITCHEN.

WE COULDN'T FIND THE COFFEE.

WHO WANTS SUGAR OR SWEETENER?

I am discovering myself,

discovering new ways of expression,

new dresses, incredible shoes,

so there are new things all the time.

So, this...

It is evident

that this occupies a central part

of who I am and in my work.

This type of work,

expressive work, from artists, comedians,

writers and everything else,

it is linked to the way the person is.

So, there is no other way.

I am this and this is me.

Partner in many battles.

How would it have been,

back in Communist Party times, for you?

How would they have welcomed you?

-If I were to cross-dress?

-Yes.

Goodness me.

I would have been

absolutely harassed, ridiculed...

It was the way we, myself included,

we saw the queers,

the fags,

the sissies,

frivolous people.

It was hardcore.

It was a...

It was a very pervasive homophobia,

not even seen as something strange.

It was evident.

I was part of some episodes

that fill me with shame,

of harassing gay people.

Proper harassment.

You see? It's a horrible thing,

but I did it.

THANK GOD IT'S A PROSTHESIS.

Hello?

There is no one with that name.

Okay.

There is no one with that name

is one of the coolest things to say.

ARE YOUR B*OBS REAL?

YES AND NO.

IN WHAT SENSE?

YES IN THE SENSE OF YES

AND NO IN THE SENSE OF NO.

ONE IS YES AND THE OTHER NO?

THEY ARE BOTH YES AND NO.

HAVE YOU GIVEN UP ALREADY?

-The question is just being accepted?

-Yes. The question is...

-Within conventional binaries?

-Establishing that "we're women".

Because of this "we are women" view,

they think they are entitled to ask,

"Are you a woman?" and I say, "I am".

"Where are your breasts?"

You can ask, "Where is your c*nt?"

Because a lot of them

have undertaken sex reassignment surgery

and consider themselves

on a higher rank than those who haven't.

Can you see?

There is a corporate issue.

There are requirements to fulfil.

It is like an identification card.

It is horrible! Horrible!

These people's actions

are of a very masculine nature.

The way people insult each other,

impose themselves.

The way they are violent.

And say this is how it is.

Transvestites are like that.

Transvestites aren't like that.

I don't know. Sometimes

I think we're going in circles.

So what?

I don't know.

I see myself repeating something.

Something I've already said.

I SEE MY LIFE IN FRONT OF MY EYES.

ACTUALLY, IT IS MAKING A TURN.

NOW, IT IS TURNING AROUND.

OH, DEAR, I AM SURROUNDED.

Rafa, did I leave the monitor there?

Is it there?

I am coming to get it.

Kisses.

What?

Yeah.

Kisses.

He said, "This documentary

is going to be funny."

Are you a man or a woman?

The first answers were something like:

I am a man.

And I am using a language, culture, etc.

which is given to be feminine.

I am invading this field

and claiming it for my own use too.

But then, I started to say:

"I am a woman."

I started to claim the right to say

that I am a woman too.

As much as I am a man.

RING:

RING:

RING:

DUDE! YOU'RE HOME?

WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU TO PLAY!

I FORGOT.

I also reach another possibility,

which is:
there are no men or women.

So, as a rule, we are human beings

and we have these tendencies.

These tendencies are also conventions,

they are possibilities, languages...

There you go!

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