WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 align:start MUSIC 00:06.000 --> 00:07.330 align:start >> WELCOME. 00:07.330 --> 00:08.900 align:start WELCOME ALL OF YOU. 00:08.900 --> 00:10.970 align:start THIS IS A BIG ROAR. 00:10.970 --> 00:13.100 align:start "HEAR JANE ROAR" -- OH, IT WAS 00:13.100 --> 00:16.370 align:start AN ORGANIZATION STARTED OUT OF 00:16.370 --> 00:19.250 align:start TRAUMA -- I'LL CALL IT THAT -- 00:19.250 --> 00:21.400 align:start AFTER THE ELECTION TO PROMOTE 00:21.400 --> 00:23.580 align:start THE TRUTH OF WOMEN. 00:23.580 --> 00:25.210 align:start SOMETHING'S HAPPENING. 00:25.210 --> 00:26.780 align:start THE WORLD IS SHIFTING, IT IS 00:26.780 --> 00:27.970 align:start CHANGING, AND EVERY SINGLE 00:27.970 --> 00:29.890 align:start PERSON IN THIS ROOM IS A DROP IN 00:29.890 --> 00:31.250 align:start THAT OCEAN OF THAT CHANGE. 00:31.250 --> 00:33.640 align:start AND I AM AWED BY YOU, I AM 00:33.640 --> 00:35.220 align:start GRATEFUL TO YOU. 00:35.220 --> 00:37.050 align:start SO, JENNY, PLEASE TELL US YOUR 00:37.050 --> 00:38.050 align:start STORY. 00:38.050 --> 00:39.460 align:start [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] 00:39.460 --> 00:41.610 align:start SO, WE STARTED "JANE'S MIC 00:41.610 --> 00:44.220 align:start NIGHTS", AND GOT FOUR WOMEN AND 00:44.220 --> 00:46.150 align:start AN AUDIENCE TO LISTEN TO THEIR 00:46.150 --> 00:47.340 align:start STORIES. 00:47.340 --> 00:48.350 align:start >> WHAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT 00:48.350 --> 00:50.140 align:start IS LESS ABOUT WHAT I'VE DONE AND 00:50.140 --> 00:52.480 align:start MORE ABOUT WHO I AM. 00:52.480 --> 00:53.640 align:start I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT AN 00:53.640 --> 00:55.240 align:start INFLUENCE AND ROLE MODEL THAT I 00:55.240 --> 00:57.160 align:start THINK EXEMPLIFIES WHY WE'RE ALL 00:57.160 --> 00:58.930 align:start HERE TONIGHT. 00:58.930 --> 01:00.610 align:start TO CELEBRATE WOMEN THAT ARE REAL 01:00.610 --> 01:02.330 align:start AND AUTHENTIC AND SOMETIMES NEED 01:02.330 --> 01:03.610 align:start A VOICE. 01:03.610 --> 01:04.610 align:start SO THAT'S WHY I WANT TO TALK TO 01:04.610 --> 01:06.560 align:start YOU ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER. 01:06.560 --> 01:07.730 align:start >> WE'VE HAD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT 01:07.730 --> 01:09.070 align:start LOVING POETRY. 01:09.070 --> 01:10.100 align:start WE'VE HAD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT 01:10.100 --> 01:11.100 align:start BEING MOLESTED. 01:11.100 --> 01:12.580 align:start I MEAN, IT IS THE GAMUT. 01:12.580 --> 01:16.370 align:start IT IS JUST ANYTHING THAT GIVES 01:16.370 --> 01:18.420 align:start TEETH TO WOMEN, GIVES SOLID -- 01:18.420 --> 01:21.770 align:start SOLIDIFIES THEIR EXPERIENCE TO 01:21.770 --> 01:24.230 align:start MAKE THEM IMPOSSIBLE TO 01:24.230 --> 01:25.800 align:start DISCREDIT, BECAUSE THERE'S TOO 01:25.800 --> 01:26.960 align:start MANY OF US. 01:26.960 --> 01:29.770 align:start OUR NEXT SPEAKER, JILL, WAS 01:29.770 --> 01:31.780 align:start FASCINATING FOR ME TO MEET. 01:31.780 --> 01:33.600 align:start SHE TOLD ME ABOUT A WORLD I KNEW 01:33.600 --> 01:34.600 align:start NOTHING ABOUT. 01:34.600 --> 01:35.600 align:start >> HI, EVERYBODY. 01:35.600 --> 01:37.550 align:start SO, MY NAME IS JILL. 01:37.550 --> 01:40.930 align:start THE WORLD IN WHICH SHE SPEAKS OF IS THE WORLD OF POLICE -- POLICE 01:40.930 --> 01:42.800 align:start WORK, LAW ENFORCEMENT. 01:42.800 --> 01:45.590 align:start SO, I WENT TO A CAREER THAT IS 01:45.590 --> 01:47.980 align:start VERY UNPREDICTABLE FROM 01:47.980 --> 01:48.980 align:start CALL-TO-CALL, LET ALONE 01:48.980 --> 01:49.980 align:start DAY-TO-DAY. 01:49.980 --> 01:51.630 align:start MY FIRST TRAINING OFFICER WAS A 01:51.630 --> 01:53.890 align:start RETIRED L.A. SHERIFF, SO HE'D 01:53.890 --> 01:55.620 align:start BEEN OUT THERE WITH RODNEY KING. 01:55.620 --> 01:57.070 align:start HE WAS A LIKE AN OAK TREE. 01:57.070 --> 01:59.400 align:start SO, DAY ONE, HE SAID -- WE WERE 01:59.400 --> 02:00.730 align:start SUPPOSED TO DRIVE THE FIRST 02:00.730 --> 02:01.730 align:start PHASE OF TRAINING. 02:01.730 --> 02:03.160 align:start HE SAID, "A GIRL IS NOT DRIVING 02:03.160 --> 02:04.440 align:start MY CRUISER." 02:04.440 --> 02:05.810 align:start HE SAID, "I'VE NEVER HAD A 02:05.810 --> 02:06.860 align:start FEMALE IN THE CAR WITH ME 02:06.860 --> 02:07.860 align:start BEFORE. 02:07.860 --> 02:08.860 align:start WE'LL SEE HOW THIS GOES. 02:08.860 --> 02:10.320 align:start I DON'T REALLY HAVE HIGH 02:10.320 --> 02:11.350 align:start EXPECTATIONS. 02:11.350 --> 02:12.350 align:start JUST DON'T GET US KILLED." 02:12.350 --> 02:14.460 align:start SO, THIS WAS DAY ONE. 02:14.460 --> 02:16.100 align:start >> NONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS 02:16.100 --> 02:18.260 align:start HAVE BEEN ABOUT BEING ANGRY. 02:18.260 --> 02:22.520 align:start HURT, PAIN, FRUSTRATION, BUT I 02:22.520 --> 02:24.940 align:start HAVE NOT SAT DOWN WITH ANY WOMAN 02:24.940 --> 02:27.590 align:start WHO WAS CUSSING AND ANGRY AND 02:27.590 --> 02:30.430 align:start VIGILANT AND ALL THAT STUFF. 02:30.430 --> 02:31.460 align:start PASSIONATE? 02:31.460 --> 02:32.490 align:start ABSOLUTELY. 02:32.490 --> 02:36.110 align:start PASSIONATE AND CONCERNED, BUT 02:36.110 --> 02:40.390 align:start NO, NOT -- NOT VIOLENTLY ANGRY. 02:40.390 --> 02:42.320 align:start >> HI, EVERYONE. 02:42.320 --> 02:44.600 align:start SO, I HONESTLY THOUGHT THIS WAS 02:44.600 --> 02:47.820 align:start GONNA BE LIKE TEN, 12 WOMEN -- 02:47.820 --> 02:49.890 align:start [ LAUGHTER ] 02:49.890 --> 02:53.230 align:start TALKING TO EACH OTHER, AND SO I 02:53.230 --> 02:54.810 align:start TOOK THE LIBERTY OF STOPPING BY 02:54.810 --> 02:56.530 align:start A HAPPY HOUR ON MY WAY HERE 02:56.530 --> 02:57.530 align:start 'CAUSE -- 02:57.530 --> 02:58.530 align:start [ LAUGHTER ] 02:58.530 --> 03:00.800 align:start SO, I WALKED IN. 03:00.800 --> 03:05.400 align:start I WAS LIKE, "OH --" BUT I AM 03:05.400 --> 03:06.400 align:start ORIGINALLY FROM THE 03:06.400 --> 03:07.820 align:start DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 03:07.820 --> 03:11.950 align:start AND JANUARY OF 1994, I WAS JUST 03:11.950 --> 03:14.190 align:start ANOTHER COLLEGE STUDENT IN MY 03:14.190 --> 03:17.000 align:start HOMETOWN OF SANTIAGO. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.330 align:start THAT'S WHERE I HAD BEEN BORN AND 03:18.330 --> 03:20.560 align:start RAISED AND NEW EVERYONE. 03:20.560 --> 03:22.840 align:start AND I HAD GONE THROUGH A REALLY 03:22.840 --> 03:27.190 align:start DIFFICULT BREAKUP. 03:27.190 --> 03:28.200 align:start AND A DEAR FRIEND CAME AND 03:28.200 --> 03:29.200 align:start PICKED ME UP. 03:29.200 --> 03:30.200 align:start I SAID, "WE SHOULD GO TO THE 03:30.200 --> 03:32.770 align:start FOREIGN STUDENT PARTY. 03:32.770 --> 03:36.090 align:start IT'S GONNA BE LIT." 03:36.090 --> 03:37.440 align:start AND IT'S LIKE IN TRUE DOMINICAN 03:37.440 --> 03:40.110 align:start FASHION, THIS IS LIKE A MONDAY, 03:40.110 --> 03:41.320 align:start RIGHT? 03:41.320 --> 03:43.840 align:start AND THAT NIGHT I MET SOMEONE 03:43.840 --> 03:46.450 align:start FROM COLUMBUS WHO -- WE FELL IN 03:46.450 --> 03:48.140 align:start LOVE QUICKLY. 03:48.140 --> 03:50.050 align:start AND I DON'T KNOW FOR THOSE OF 03:50.050 --> 03:54.060 align:start YOU WHO ARE OF AGE, YOU REMEMBER 03:54.060 --> 03:55.700 align:start BEING 20 AND FALLING IN LOVE, 03:55.700 --> 03:56.700 align:start RIGHT? 03:56.700 --> 03:58.490 align:start IT'S LIKE DESPERATE AND RUSHED 03:58.490 --> 04:00.280 align:start AND LIKE, "OF COURSE I'LL FOLLOW 04:00.280 --> 04:01.390 align:start YOU TO COLUMBUS, OHIO. 04:01.390 --> 04:04.480 align:start I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS, BUT OF 04:04.480 --> 04:07.080 align:start COURSE -- OF COURSE I'LL GO." 04:07.080 --> 04:09.420 align:start 20 YEARS AGO ON A REALLY COLD 04:09.420 --> 04:11.880 align:start JANUARY DAY, I AM MARRIED TO 04:11.880 --> 04:13.600 align:start THIS PERSON WHO I WAS MADLY IN 04:13.600 --> 04:16.320 align:start LOVE WITH AND WILLING TO LEAVE 04:16.320 --> 04:18.940 align:start BEHIND EVERYTHING THAT I KNEW - 04:18.940 --> 04:23.420 align:start CULTURE, FAMILY, HOME, FRIENDS, 04:23.420 --> 04:24.540 align:start COMFORT. 04:24.540 --> 04:26.440 align:start BECAUSE, UNLIKE A LOT OF OTHER 04:26.440 --> 04:28.420 align:start PEOPLE WHO ARE IMMIGRANTS, MY 04:28.420 --> 04:29.670 align:start PARENTS WERE MIDDLE CLASS. 04:29.670 --> 04:31.340 align:start WE HAD TWO NANNIES. 04:31.340 --> 04:34.380 align:start I WENT TO FRENCH SCHOOL AND THEN 04:34.380 --> 04:36.530 align:start TO A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, SO I 04:36.530 --> 04:39.720 align:start HAD NO BUSINESS COMING HERE TO 04:39.720 --> 04:40.970 align:start STRUGGLE. 04:40.970 --> 04:42.210 align:start \\[ LAUGHTER ] 04:42.210 --> 04:44.700 align:start >> SO, COME. 04:44.700 --> 04:46.040 align:start IF YOU DOUBT THE THINGS WOMEN 04:46.040 --> 04:47.890 align:start SAY, COME LISTEN TO THEM. 04:47.890 --> 04:49.070 align:start SEE IF THAT CHANGES YOUR 04:49.070 --> 04:50.130 align:start PERSPECTIVE. 04:50.130 --> 04:51.650 align:start IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE WOMEN WHO 04:51.650 --> 04:53.410 align:start HAS NEVER TOLD YOUR STORY, 04:53.410 --> 04:54.800 align:start YOU'VE KEPT YOUR STORY UNDER 04:54.800 --> 04:56.890 align:start WRAPS, COME AND FIND OUT IT'S 04:56.890 --> 04:57.960 align:start NOT JUST YOU. 04:57.960 --> 04:58.960 align:start >> HELLO, EVERYONE. 04:58.960 --> 05:00.640 align:start I READ TODAY, QUOTE, "WE ARE 05:00.640 --> 05:03.530 align:start HERE TO LOVE EACH OTHER, TO HELP 05:03.530 --> 05:06.430 align:start EACH OTHER AND LIFT EACH OTHER 05:06.430 --> 05:08.300 align:start UP. 05:08.300 --> 05:10.770 align:start HISTORICALLY, WOMEN HAVE NOT 05:10.770 --> 05:13.580 align:start ALWAYS TREATED ONE ANOTHER WELL. 05:13.580 --> 05:16.140 align:start WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO JUDGE, 05:16.140 --> 05:18.850 align:start BLAME, SHAME, QUESTION AND 05:18.850 --> 05:19.850 align:start COMPETE." 05:19.850 --> 05:25.290 align:start I'D SAY THAT'S ABOUT ENOUGH OF 05:25.290 --> 05:26.290 align:start THAT. 05:26.290 --> 05:28.080 align:start THANK YOU. 05:28.080 --> 05:29.080 align:start [ APPLAUSE ] 05:29.080 --> 05:30.690 align:start >> I AM GRATEFUL FOR EVERY WOMAN 05:30.690 --> 05:32.540 align:start WHO IS SHOWING UP, I AM GRATEFUL 05:32.540 --> 05:35.090 align:start FOR EVERY MAN WHO HAS SHOWN UP, 05:35.090 --> 05:37.730 align:start AND I AM OVERWHELMED BY THE 05:37.730 --> 05:40.350 align:start POWER OF THAT MANY PEOPLE CARING 05:40.350 --> 05:43.740 align:start AND IT CHANGES THE WORLD. 05:43.740 --> 05:48.740 align:start IT JUST DOES.