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I think social justice lands better
when it's encased in
a really solid *** joke.
My name is Negin Farsad.
I do stand-up comedy.
I'm an Iranian-American Muslim female -
but who isn't?
A lot of immigrant families
are not always great on gender issues.
And it's not my job to pretend that they are
And to shy away from things
just because it makes my parents uncomfortable.
And that's the thing about sex and *** issues
among Iranians and Muslims in general.
I feel like they're so closed off about them
that they don't even know the appropriate language to communicate.
"Negin, have you had " inter-gender flesh relation...?
Yes, lady, I've had...
"Have you had inter-gender " flesh relation
without security of external safety product...?
Muslim-Americans need to understand
that we're going to be exposed to some stuff.
We're gonna adopt some stuff.
They find it very, very taboo
to discuss sex so openly.
But it makes me want to do it more,
because I want to be a part of the culture that says
it's okay for women to speak their minds.
And it's okay for women to speak their minds
in exactly the same way we're used to men speaking their minds.
I noticed this dude checking me out,
and I could tell that he was a Jew.
So I asked myself, WWARCOAD?
"What would Arafat and Rabin do, circa the 1993 Oslo Accords?"
I did what any good Muslim girl would do,
and I let him grind up on me right here.
So that's what I'm doing for peace in the Middle East.
The question is,
What the *** are you guys doing?
I decided not to care about the hate mail,
or the people calling me a *** after a show,
because it's not really personal.
It feels personal for a moment.
But they don't actually know you.
They're making off-the-cuff judgments.
It's really hard to disassociate yourself from the attacks,
but that's the only way that you can move on.
Aww... you better get that dame outta here!
My name is Negin, and I am moral courage.