Name: 【TED】Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change
Uploaded: 2014-08-13T14:02:11.000Z
Duration: 9 min 53 s
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Back in the '50s and '60s, when I was growing up,

little girls were supposed to be kind and thoughtful

really not quite clear what we were supposed to be.

There were plenty of role models all around us.

We had our mothers, our aunts, our cousins, our sisters,

but she and I didn't go out and do girlie things together,

Instead, she knew what I needed, and she bought me a book of cartoons.

and since I knew that humor was acceptable in my family,

and not have to perform, not have to speak --

we don't always know. We know there are rules out there,

what the most important color in the world is.

We're told what shape we're supposed to be in.

are constantly being monitored by the culture.

because we are the carriers of the tradition.

We pass it down from generation to generation.

We don't know what's going on half the time,

so it puts us in a very tenuous position.

not quite aware that I'm following them --

what better way than to change them [than] with humor?

Humor relies on the traditions of a society.

It takes the codes of behavior and the codes of dress,

Now what if you put together women and humor?

we can bring a different voice to the table.

I grew up not far from here in Washington D.C.

during the Civil Rights movement, the assassinations,

the Watergate hearings and then the feminist movement,

and I drew to try to bring my family together --

-- try to bring my family together with laughter.

My parents got divorced, and my sister was arrested.

I found that I didn't have to wear high heels,

Now when I was a little older, in my 20s,

I realized there are not many women in cartooning.

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【TED】Liza Donnelly: Drawing upon humor for change

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