civil rights law Maurisa Fraser at Broadway Stands Up For Freedom 2012

Maurisa Fraser is 18, she just graduated from high school, and she just won the NYCLU's Freedom of Expression contest! Here she is performing her winning entry 'Boogie Man' at our annual benefit concert 'Broadway Stands Up For Freedom.' Watch and see why Maurisa was the only performer who got a standing ovation in a night full of performances by Broadway's brightest stars. To read her poem and to see the other winning entries in our contest, go to: http://bit.ly/L3UbYe
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Transcipt:

Boogie Man

Green closet
you could see my nails digged into the walls
Mama tries to pull me in the closet With the old denim mini skirt white patent leather church shoes she wants me to live there
Stuff me in the top shelf
Lay me down like an old skeleton;

no one is supposed to know
Keep your secrets behind your suits Everyone hides behind their suits

Closets aren't not for queer daughters it's the home of all boogie men

Big brown and scary
Carrying a struggling limp
with the roar of a lion that'll have your hairs
Standing taIllike you were the third grade line leader

This boogie man got one eye; no perspective
can't see its four children lynching themselves at the back of its ears hanging themselves, like earrings or some kind of accessory

boogie man gat big feet
Because when boogie man put its foot down
All hell about to break lose
Boogie man play no games
Show up every night
Ain't got no heart because all boogie man know is tough love

Mama, stop hiding in my closet I fear you, you and your habit See mama got issues
Mama can't hold on to money
I swear she be mistaken me for one of her purses, boots or jeans You can't exchange or return me, no store credit
Sorry that I can't fit into your life correctly but
There is no insurance for a queer daughter

So she haunts me
Installs fear in me
And never lets me forget

See, I don't get much sleep at night
I be in bed by 8
& The boogie man is expected by 10:35

8~9
I spend one hour telling myself how beautiful I am
London, your lips are luscious
The glaze at the bottom of a bowl of strawberries and sugar Your body is sexy
You got the sun rise and sun set
Playing sea saw in your pupils
Skin like blanket
I wanna wrap myself inside of you
London wrap yourself inside of you
Love you, London

9-10
I spend one hour thinking of a million ways to turn myself straight
Maybe if I hold myself in between the chicken soup for soul books
I'll stand straight like them; Brought me every edition
Told me I'm just going through a phase and they'll help me find myself

10- 10:30
I pray to god
Lord, I'm sorry that I cannot love the correct gender but that give Mama no right to be hiding in my closet She knows how I feels bout Boogie Man
Got my cries swing dancing in these hinges

10:30- 10:35
I take the yellow post it from my night stand
Write down my last words
Because some nights
Boogie Man come with belts and hangers
Mama always say she beat me straight if she have to.

civil rights law Maurisa Fraser at Broadway Stands Up For Freedom 2012
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