(footsteps)
- ♪ Na na na So ferocious ♪
(roar)
(music)
- My body is my own when I am moving,
when I am existing in the world.
- My body is my own when I feel possible creatively;
like I can do anything I want.
- My body is my own when I can embrace my imperfections.
- When I'm having sex with somebody
that I think is super hot.
(laughs)
- Just simply waking up in the morning,
and getting to be myself.
- When people say I'm a good friend.
- When I'm boxing.
I wanted to do an exercise that makes you feel like a kid.
- I feel like my body is my own technically,
but I haven't felt in my body for most of my life.
- When I can parallel park really fast.
- When I stand up for myself.
- My body is really my own when I'm dancing.
♪ Walking through the city feeling so ferocious ♪
♪ I could take anyone ♪
♪ You ain't gonna see me run from you no way no way ♪
- When I was a tween I knew that an
above the knee amputation would
save my life
from a congenital vascular syndrome,
and I wanted to so badly have this amputation.
Life really started for me then,
even though everybody thought of it as a disability.
It was my liberation.
♪ I guess your mama didn't raise you right ♪
♪ And you wanna take it out on me ♪
♪ You're just a bully looking for a fight ♪
♪ But you didn't know that I could be ♪
♪ So ferocious ♪
(music)
- It makes me sad
when boys say
that they can do more than girls.
- Be feminine.
- Be pretty.
- Dress a little more for your age.
- You should straighten your hair,
because kinky styles aren't good anymore.
- Wow, those are some really short shorts.
- Don't sit with your legs open.
- I don't think you should get reconstructive surgery.
- Don't laugh so loud.
- I do think you should get reconstructive surgery.
- Don't laugh.
- What's reconstructive surgery?
- Don't be bossy.
- Don't be a bitch.
- You should smile more.
- Women are notorious apologizers; we are supposed to
say I'm sorry if we have opinions.
- You can either be really cute and adorable,
or you can have an opinion and be smart.
You have to choose.
- How are you going to parent your kids?
Aren't you supposed to be their dad?
- When somebody says like,
"Oh, what's that on your arm?"
"Is that a burn?"
and I'm like no it's a birthmark, I was born with it.
- Oh, I have a good one from my mom.
Why don't you just accept that
you're a woman in a woman's body?
♪ Everything you said to me was so atrocious ♪
♪ You oughtta take it back ♪
♪ If I had a punch to pack I'd make you pay you pay ♪
- When I was a kid I must have had a little belly,
and then someone made fun of me,
and so it was always, from childhood on,
my body was an issue.
- [Woman off screen] What did Lester say
to you that made you feel bad?
- He said Sadie was fat.
- I was watching a movie in the room,
and he just came in, and said, "Wow, you're getting fat."
It did not make me feel good.
- I mean it was such a powerful feeling that I got about
that I'm not good enough, and something's wrong with me.
- No one should ever judge someone, because of their body.
- It's definitely okay to cry,
and it doesn't make you weak.
Even if I'm tearing up right now.
♪ Now you think you're tough but before long ♪
♪ You'll see that ain't no way to live ♪
- If I could say anything
to my younger self,
Stay true to who you are.
- Be fearless
- [Woman off screen] Strong
- [Woman off screen] Curious
- [Woman off screen] Capable
- [Woman off screen] Confident
- [Woman off screen] Productive
- [Woman off screen] Brilliant
- You can do whatever you want.
(music)
- I want to tell my current self to forgive my past self.
- My body is mine, my desires are mine,
anything that I can dream of is mine.
- My son told me, "My Dad is beautiful, and I love her."
- My body is fine, and it's mine, and it's just me.
- I know that my breasts were removed,
but I'm still who I am.
- I feel really free when you ask me how old I am.
I feel really free when I tell you I'm 73.
- I'm not sorry.
- I like that I don't have to be perfect to be amazing.
♪ I guess your mama didn't raise you right ♪
♪ And you wanna take it out on me ♪
♪ You're just a bully looking for a fight ♪
- This is my life, my body, my legs, not yours.
♪ So ferocious ♪
(laughing and clapping in background)
- At the end of the day, my body, it's my own,
and no one can make decisions on my behalf, except for me.