It's my first since "Bridge and Tunnel," which I did on Broadway,

是我繼「橋梁和隧道」後的作品，

and this one, I -- thank you --

而這次，感謝大家，

I've excerpted it just for you, so here we go.

我為各位擷取了一段，

Right. Class, let's be absolutely certain

那我們開始吧！

all electronic devices are switched off before we begin.

同學們，在我們開始之前，

So class, hopefully you'll recognize what you just heard me say as the -- ?

先確定所有電子設備都已經關機。

Very good, the cellular phone announcement.

大家應該知道我指的是...

Right? This was also known as a mobile phone.

非常好，就是請把手機關機，

So you'll remember, people of that era

也就是所謂的移動電話。

would have had an external electronic device, right,

大家要記得那個年代的人，

something like this,

會去買一種電子設備，

and they all would have carried one of these around with them,

長得像這樣，

and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification

然後隨身攜帶，

that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.

而且最令他們害怕的，

Right? So a bit of trivia about that era for you.

就是手機在不對的時機響起。

(Laughter)

稍微幫大家複習一下那個年代。

So the format of today's class is

(笑聲)

I will be presenting multiple BERT modules today

所以今天的課程，

from that period in history, right,

我會介紹幾個BERT模組，

so starting circa 2016.

取自我剛剛說的那個年代，

And remember, this was the very first year of the BERT program.

大約是2016年。

So we've got quite a few of these to get through.

要記住，BERT計畫也在這年開始，

Bear in mind, I will be living into various different bodies,

所以我們有不少模組可以用。

different ages,

記住，我會進到不同的身體、

also what were then called races, or ethnic groups,

不同年齡，

as you'll remember from Unit 1.

還有當時所謂的人種、族群，

And -- (Laughter) -- and along the gender continuum,

我們在單元一介紹過的。

I will be living into males as well.

而且，(笑聲)

It was quite binary at that time.

在整個性別連續集，

(Laughter)

我可能會變成男生，

Also, don't forget, we are reading the book module

當時只有男女兩種分類。

for next week's focus on gender.

(笑聲)

Now, I know some of you have requested the book in pill form.

不要忘了，

I know people still believe ingesting it is better for retention,

我們唸的是跟下禮拜， 性別有關的書本內容。

but since we are trying to experience what our forebears did, right,

我知道有些人要求「藥丸式課本」，

let's please just consider doing the actual ocular reading, okay?

覺得身體消化以後記憶比較深刻，

And also, how many people have your emotional shunts engaged?

但因為我們是想體驗先人的生活，

Right. Please toggle them off. Okay?

所以我們還是試著， 用「眼睛」去學習，好嗎？

I know it's challenging, but I want you to be able to feel the entire

有人現在戴著「情感阻絕器」嗎？

natural emo range, all right?

那麻煩你們關掉好嗎？

It is essential to this part of the syllabus.

我知道這不容易，

Yes, Macy?

但我希望你們去感受 所有的、自然的情緒。

All right. I understand. If you're unwilling to --

這是這門課很重要的環節。

All right, well, we can discuss that after class.

有問題嗎，梅西？

All right, we will discuss your concerns.

好我知道了，如果你不想...

Just relax. Nobody's died and gone to composting.

沒關係我們下課再談...

Okay. After class. Okay? After class.

好，我們再討論，

Let's just get started, okay.

放輕鬆， 不會有人死了拿去做肥料。

This first subject identified as a middle-class homemaker.

沒事，下課再說好嗎？

Remember, these early modules

我們還是趕快開始吧。

in these people's full identities were protected,

第一個受訪者是中產階級的主婦。

and this allowed them to speak more freely on our topic,

要記得這些早期的樣本，

which for many of them was taboo.

受測者的身份是保密的，

Okay honey, now, I'm ready when you are.

他們才能暢所欲言，

No, sweetheart, I said, I'm ready when you are.

畢竟當時有人視言論自由為大忌。

I'm freezing.

喔，親愛的， 你好了就開始吧。

It's like a meat locker in here in this recording studio.

不是，親愛的， 我說，你好了就開始。

I should have brought a shmata.

快冷死了。

All this fancy technology but they can't afford heat.

這裡冷得像冷凍肉櫃。

What is he saying? I can't hear you!

我應該帶一件毯子來的。

I can't hear you through the glass, honey!

搞這麼多高科技， 結果連個暖氣都沒有。

There you are in my ear.

在說什麼？ 我聽不到喔！

Oh, you can hear me?

我隔著玻璃聽不到你！

The whole time.

喔，聽到你的聲音了。

Oh, yes, I am a little chilly.

喔，你聽得到我啊？

Yes, oh the cold is for the machines, the new technology. Okay.

一直都有聽到。

Yes, now remind me again, you're recording not only my voice but my feelings

對啦，我覺得有點冷。

and my memories? Right.

冷氣是怕機器過熱啊？

Yes, BERT, yes, I read about it.

高科技嘛，沒事。

Bio-Empathetic Resonant Technology.

你再說一次， 你除了在錄我的聲音，

Right, right, so people will be able to feel my experience

也錄了感覺和記憶，是吧？

and my memory? Okay.

BERT，對，我有印象，

No, right, I'm ready.

全名是「生物感知情緒共鳴」。

I just thought you were going to give me a test to see how my memory's doing.

沒問題，清楚了。

I was going to tell you you're too late, it's already bad news.

所以其他人可以藉此， 感受我的經歷和記憶。

No, no, go ahead, honey.

沒問題，我準備好了。

Oh, that's the first question?

我以為你要測我的記憶力，

What do I think of prostitution?

正要告訴你別忙了， 我記憶力超差。

Are you soliciting me, young man?

沒關係，繼續吧孩子。

I've heard of May-December romances, but what are you, about 20 years old?

喔，第一題是這個啊，

Eighteen? Eighteen years.

「我對賣淫有什麼想法？」

I think I have candies in my purse older than 18 years old.

你在調戲我嗎，小子？

(Laughter)

我是聽過「老少配」， 但你才幾歲，20嗎？

I'm teasing you, sweetheart. No, I'm comfortable with any question.

18？才18歲啊。

Sure. So about the prostitution -- oh, sex worker, sex worker.

我那個年紀好像還在吃糖吧。

No, just in my day, they called it prostitution, not sex work.

(笑聲)

Oh, because it includes pornography also?

我在鬧你啦，年輕人。 我不會覺得不舒服。

Okay.

所以關於賣淫... 喔，要叫「性工作者」。

No, well, I guess when I was a girl,

我們以前沒有「性工作」這個說法。

we didn't really have a name for that either.

喔，所以拍A片也算？

We would have said dirty magazines, I suppose, or dirty movies.

知道了。

Well, it's not like what you have with the Internet.

我只是記得我年輕的時候，

No, well, I don't mind sharing.

好像也不會這樣說。

My late husband and I, we were a very romantic couple.

頂多說黃色雜誌、三級片之類的。

Lots of tenderness, you understand.

當然跟現在網路上的不能比。

Well, as you get older, you know, at one point I thought my husband

沒差，我不介意講這個。

might be helped by using some of the pills men can take,

我老公過世前和我非常恩愛。

but he wasn't interested in those,

我們過得很幸福，你知道的。

so I thought, what about maybe watching an adult movie on the Internet?

但人也會老，我開始覺得，

Just for inspiration, you understand.

他需要吃點威而鋼助興，

Well, at the time, neither of us were very good on the computer,

但他不想碰這些。

so usually, if we needed help with the Internet,

所以我想，

we would just call our children or our grandchildren,

不然在網路上找些A片好了，

but obviously, in this case, that wasn't an option,

搞不好會有些「靈感」。

so I thought, I'll have a look myself, just to see.

當然我們都不太會用電腦，

How difficult could it be?

通常我們要上網的話，

You search for certain key words and you look --

就叫兒女或孫子、孫女來幫忙，

Oh wow is right, young man.

但顯然這次不能這樣。

You can't imagine what I saw.

那我只好自己試試看，

Well, first of all, I was just trying to find, you know, couples,

反正只是...

normal couples making love,

看個片嘛，能有多難？

but this, so many people together at one time.

把關鍵字打進去一看，

You couldn't tell which part belonged to which body.

喔，我嚇了一跳，

How they even got the cameras to capture some of this, I couldn't tell you.

你想像不到那個的畫面。

But the one thing they didn't capture was making love.

首先呢，我只是想找兩個人的、

There was lots of making of something,

一般情侶在做愛那種。

but they took the love part right out of it, you know, the fun.

結果呢， 跑出來的是一群人一起。

It was all very extreme, you know?

你都不知道哪塊肉是誰身上的。

Like you would say, with the extreme sports.

我甚至不知道攝影機 怎麼有辦法拍到這些畫面。

Lots of endurance,

但他們唯一沒拍到的就是「做愛」。

but never tenderness.

他們是在「做」些什麼沒錯，

So anyway, needless to say, that was $19.95 I'll never get back again,

但不包含愛，這才是重點。

but it only showed up on the credit card as "entertainment services,"

看起來很「極限」你知道嗎？

so my husband was never the wiser,

就是「極限運動」的那種「極限」。

and after all of that,

是很持久，

well, you could say it turned out

但完全沒有愛。

he didn't need the extra inspiration after all.

更不用說我白花了19.95塊美金，

Right, so next subject is a young woman -- (Applause) --

但信用卡帳單只會寫「娛樂支出」，

Next subject, class, is a young woman called Bella,

所以我老公一直被蒙在鼓裡，

a university student interviewed in 2016

一直到...

during what was called an Intro to Feminist Porn class

嗯可以說是，

as part of her major in sex work at a college in the Bay Area.

一直到他踏進棺材都不知道。

(Laughter)

好的，下個受訪者是一名年輕女性。 (掌聲)

Yeah, I just want to, like, get a recording of, like,

下個受訪者， 是叫做貝拉的年輕女孩，

you guys recording me,

在2016年受訪時是大學學生，

like a meta recording, or whatever.

在「女性主義成人片入門」的課堂上，

It's just like this whole experience is just, like, really amazing,

在女性主義的大本營， 主修「性工作研究」。

and I'd like to capture that for, like, Instagram and my Tumblr.

(笑聲)

So, like, hi guys, it's me, Bella,

我也想要稍微錄一下，

and I am, like, being interviewed right now

就像你們也在拍我。

for this, like, really amazing Bio-Empathetic Resonance Technology,

像幕後花絮。

which is, like, basically where they are, like, recording, as you can see

這次的經驗，真的非常難得。

from these, whatever, like, electrodes,

想說拍下來， 上傳到我的Instagram和Tumblr。

the formation of, like, neuropeptides in my hippocampus, or whatever.

嗨大家，我是貝拉，

They will later be able to reconstitute these

我現在正在接受採訪，

as, like, my own actual memory, like actual experiences,

是一項新技術叫 「生物感知情緒共鳴」。

so other people can, like, actually feel what I'm feeling right now.

基本上他們呢，如你所見，

Okay. Okay.

透過這些電極之類的，

So, like, hello, BERT person of the future who is experiencing me.

記錄我的海馬迴， 裡面的神經活動什麼的。

This is what it feels like to be, like, a college freshman,

之後他們就可以重新建構，

and also the, like, headache that you are experiencing through me

我的記憶、我的感受，

is the, like, residual effect of the Jell-O shots which I had last night

其他人就可以， 知道我現在的感覺。

at the bi-weekly feminist pole dancing party

之類的，就是這樣。

which I cohost on Wednesdays.

哈囉，未來某個透過BERT， 正在感受我的人你好。

It's called "Don't Get All Pole-emical" -- (Laughter) --

這就是當大學新鮮人的感覺，

and it's in Beekman Hall,

然後你現在可能有點頭痛，

and, what else, like,

可能是因為我昨天， 吃太多酒果凍所以宿醉，

non-Jell-O shots are also available for vegans,

我昨天參加一周兩次的 女性主義鋼管舞派對，

and, oh, okay, yeah, totally, yeah, we should also focus on your questions also.

我是禮拜三的主辦人。

So for your record, I am, like, a sex work studies major

主題是「不要太嗆辣」。 (笑聲)

but minoring in social media

地點是在畢克曼廳，

with a concentration on notable YouTube memes.

然後還有什麼...

(Laughter)

我們也提供非果凍式的酒給素食者。

Yes, well, of course, like, I consider myself to be, like,

還有...

obviously, like, a feminist.

喔當然，我們回到你的問題。

I was named for Bella Abzug, who was, like, a famous, like,

沒錯，你也知道，

feminist from history,

我主修「性工作研究」，

and, like, also I feel that it is, like, important to, like, represent women

副修「社群媒體」，

who are, like, sex-positive feminists.

主要研究YouTube的文化傳播現象。

What is sex-negative?

(笑聲)

Well, like, I guess I would ask, like, what do you think

喔當然，我覺得我本人，

sex-negative is? (Laughter)

很明顯就是女性主義者。

Yeah, because, like, the terms that we use are, like, so important, because, like,

我跟貝拉阿布朱格同名， 她是歷史上有名的，

we call it sex work because it helps people understand that, like, it's work,

女性主義者。

and, like, you know, just like there are, like, healthcare providers

然後我覺得， 替女性發聲很重要，

and, like, insurance providers,

尤其我們「性積極女性主義者」。

like, we think of these workers as, like, sex care providers.

你問我什麼是「性消極」？

Yeah, but like, I don't think of myself like, providing direct

嗯，那我就想問你，

sex care services per se as, like, being a requirement

你覺得「性消極」是什麼？ (笑聲)

for me to be, like, an advocate.

其實這些用詞很重要，

Like, I support other women's right to choose it voluntarily, like,

我們說「性工作」就是為了 讓一般人知道那是「工作」。

if they enjoy it.

就像醫護人員提供醫療，

Yeah, but, like, I see myself going forward

保險業者提供保險，

as more likely, like, protecting sex workers',

我們覺得這些工作者， 也只是在提供「性照護」。

like, legal freedoms and rights.

當然我不覺得，

Yeah, so, like, basically, I'm planning on becoming a lawyer.

我必須要去從事性工作，

Right, class. (Laughter) (Applause)

才能幫性工作者講話。

So these next two modules are also circa 2016.

我是幫其他女性， 捍衛自由選擇的權利，

One subject is an Irishwoman with a particularly noteworthy

如果她們樂在其中。

relationship to this issue,

所以我覺得自己比較像是，

but first will be a West Indian woman,

想去保障性工作者的

a self-described escort

法律上的自由和權利。

who was recorded at a sex workers' rights rally and parade.

所以我基本上會去當律師。

She was interviewed whilst marching in full carnival headdress

好的，同學們。 (笑聲)(掌聲)

and very little else.

接下來的兩個人 也是2016年左右錄的。

All right, you want me to start talking now.

其中一名愛爾蘭女性，

Yeah, I told you, you can put those wires anywhere you want to

跟這次的議題切身相關。

as long as it don't get in the way.

但我們先看另一名 來自加勒比海的女性，

Yeah, no, but, tell me again what the name of -- BERT? BERT.

說自己是應召女郎。

Yeah, I was telling you, you know, I think I have in all my time

地點是在一場 關於性工作權的示威遊行。

I have had at least one client with that name, so this won't be the first time

她受訪時戴著華麗的嘉年華頭飾，

I had BERT all over me.

身上只有少少的布料。

Oh, I'm sorry,

好啊，你要我現在說嗎？

but you got to get into the spirit of it if you're going to interview me.

沒關係，那些線你隨便黏，

All right? You can say it.

只要它不會「跑進去」。

No justice, no piece! No justice, no piece!

你再說一次這叫...BERT？ 叫BERT。

But you see the sign? You get it? P-I-E-C-E. No justice, no piece of us.

我做這行這麼久， 不只一個客人叫這個名字，

You understand?

所以這也不是第一次 我被BERT「佈滿」全身。

Right, so that's the part where I was telling you

抱歉，

is that when I first came to this country, I worked every job I could find.

但如果想採訪我， 你要再放開一點。

I was a nanny; I was a home care attendant for all these different old people,

可以嗎？跟著喊！

and then I said, child, if I have to touch another white man's backside,

「沒正義，不平靜」

I might as well get paid a lot more money for it than this,

你有看懂標語嗎？

you understand?

沒有正義， 我們也不幫你「平靜」性慾。

Pshh, you know how hard it is being a domestic worker?

懂了吧？

Some of these men, they're heavy.

所以我剛剛是要跟你說的，

You have to pick them up and flip them over.

我剛來到這裡時， 去做了每一份我能做的工作。

Now, I let them pick me up and flip me over, you understand?

我當過褓姆，也當過看護， 照顧一堆老人家。

Well, you have to have a sense of humor about it, that's what I think.

然後我就想， 一樣要碰這些白人的下體，

No, but see, listen,

我該找個可以賺多點的吧。

you find me somebody who don't hate some part of their job.

你懂我的意思嗎？

I mean, there's a lot of things about this job that I hate,

老天，你知道當看護多累嗎？

but the money is not one of them,

有些人根本過重。

and I will tell you, as long as this is the best possibility

還要把他們抱起來再翻身。

for me to make real money,

我現在被他們抱起來翻身，懂嗎？

I am going to be Jamaican-No-Fakin' if that's what they want to call me.

生活要有點幽默感， 至少我是這麼認為啦。