In my mind, I think about Matilda's life, her love of books, her hatred of bullies, her courage to find her own way to fight back . I breathe in, I breathe out, and then I step onto the stage. And when I'm in the light, I am her.
So you share some stories about your mother's mistreatment in a nail salon, especially growing up working there very young, as well as your desire to fight back against that racial hatred and cruelty that she endured. How has the rise in anti-Asian-American hate crime impacted her, as well as your desire to protect her?
I mean, you're pumping your body full of hormones, adrenaline. We didn't necessarily fight back against that to say that, of a bazillion bands that put out records and do stuff, we were getting
This is Ireland. We support trans people in this country. We can't fight back against it if we're being silenced and if we're all being policed.
We were more than almost 12 children in the house because, before the genocide, the Hutu government used to kill or put in jail the Tutsis who were young and seemed to fight back . So in the preparation of the genocide, so they can succeed, that was one of the things they did.
So I have learned through the years to sort of trust his judgment. And when I fight back , and I do often, half of the time he ends up convincing me that his way it's the best way for him.
beat the West by using traditional Chinese thinking and methods, then they might have to adapt the Western system, at least for a while, to try and fight back . The country that actually did this most successfully was Japan, which in the Meiji reforms of the late 19th century changed Japan very rapidly
But eventually they're going to work with knives. So we need to fight back .
But eventually they're going to work with knives. And the way we fight back is we learn how to cook.
Otherwise you cannot take it for granted. I need to fight back to regain my reputation. I think it's extremely important that I don't leave that perception to be floating around.
called the "Copper Canyons." Back in the 1600s, when the conquistadors arrived and started taking heads, there were two options. You could fight back like the Mayans and the Aztecs, or you could turn around and take off, like the Tarahumara did. Very few Mayans and Aztecs around today, but the Tarahumara have managed to hide themselves and live down there, almost untouched by the modern world. So, essentially, they are living today exactly
you know maybe tone it down a little bit. And taking medications for sometimes decades of your life also I think feels very different when you say ah I'm swallowing to like fight back this stupid autoimmunity compared to saying I'm taking this to like calm you down. You know you don't have to go so hard. I'm okay. I think these things do matter and I've seen in hospital and the way that my patients reacted to when I could explain it
The alternative is to say, all right, we gave up, we're not going to fight back . Like this was an imperfect way to fight back to preserve our democracy and have some semblance of accountability for this administration, which is actively trying to attack our democracy. They're showing us that they want to undermine our democratic process right now. And we
and ideas. Reactance captures this aspect of human behavior, which states that when people feel pressured to change, our natural instinct is to fight back against change. The first step from thinking in terms of not just fuel, but also understanding the frictions and anticipating the frictions that inhabit our ideas,
and in some other cities as well, we as beer fans and beer drinkers, and especially as the brewers themselves, need to be thinking about where their water is coming from and how to protect the resource to fight back against people who are trying to damage our water sources. And that, to me, I think is the most important thing that doesn't get talked about.
I have the great pleasure of introducing Erin. Erin Weed is the founder of Girls Fight Back , a women's safety education company. After teaching live self-defense seminars to over one million people worldwide, she sold Girls Fight Back in 2013.
and communicate authentically. But I feel like speaking truth not only affects us in the personal but also in the business world. Shortly after I sold Girls Fight Back and started working for TED, there was also kind of a personal churning that was happening. I was starting to realize that the marriage I was in was not a good marriage.
God forbid if you did have to fight back , you are now 20%, 30%, 40% less efficient and effective to deal with someone that means to compromise you.
you work in the realm of language and language doesn't fight back the way that reality does.
him. I needed a fight back .
think it's important to like try to fight back against that stuff. Like we don't want young kids who come into a
give people the means they need to be able to fight back when things like this happen.
And then hearing about that shooting in the spa was so triggering, and it brought back all these memories of us in the nail salon having to fight back against the abuse from clientele. And so we would take these walks around Ridgewood, and I just remember trying to walk as close to her as possible and just making sure that she felt safe.
Yeah. You fight back and connect with other people on it too.
And if a queen doesn't learn how to fight back against her oppressors, whether those oppressors are straight cops or narrow-minded or bigoted gays,
That can be a really effective way to fight back some negative thoughts.
We're working at the federal level to fight back as hard as we can against these policies that Donald Trump is introducing and signing.
are partly djinn as well in order to fight back .
Tell me something. Fight back .
But that competitiveness, that resilience to fight back when I failed ultimately.
attention to the ways in which it's declining so that we can fight back . So we're just at the beginning of what
One of the easiest and most important things you can do to fight back against bias is just understanding that it’s real, and accepting that you have it.
or make the other person wrong, or fight back , or whatever.
In mid 2000s, we were able to fight back and illegal music streaming started to decrease replaced by multiple platforms.
This is Ireland. We support trans people in this country. Because we also rely on our freedom of speech to be able to fight back .
If you're attacked, you will fight back .
But it was really built on some pretty inauthentic foundations. And this was rough because not only had I lost my Girls Fight Back identity at that point, my other identity was being a married mom of two kids. And I started getting really shaken at the idea of, like, I don't think I'm supposed to be here anymore.
Well, there are actually ways that we can fight back against some of this stuff in our everyday lives.
But gradually, I knew that I had to fight back .
But now, they've been able to fight back .
tomorrow, they will help our community and help fight back this bad situation that we are living in.
Sometimes, not only the way to fight back , but the way to push forward is through arts and culture.
it's interesting the the the media played a big role in that fight back in the early 90s the Herold and mod is that
Then the rise of clean energy becomes an extraordinary threat, one that mobilizes you to fight back . In the US, for
But the population as a whole doesn't have necessarily the tools to understand how can we fight back .
And so, that was the struggle that Black Zimbabweans had to fight back against.
I didn't know how to make sense out of that story, or how to fight back against it.
Erin Weed is the founder of Girls Fight Back , a women's safety education company. After teaching live self-defense seminars to over one million people worldwide, she sold Girls Fight Back in 2013. And since then, she's been working as a speaker, an author, and a communications strategist who helps people seek their purpose and speak their truth.
There is a corporate class here that needs to-- a part of the business class that needs to fight back .
He said, I'm looking for a player who has the guts not to fight back , because he knew that racist players would