 Um, next up, we have Dilo. Y'all know about Dilo? Who knows about Dilo? All right, show some love, show some love. Dilo is a queer, transgender, Tamil, Sri Lankan actor, writer, comedian. He is also the co-producer for disoriented comedy. His solo shows, Rambolations and De-Funk and De-Facto Life have toured internationally. His TV film credits include co-starring Looking, Transparent, and Sense 8. This year, he will be featured in Sundance Fellow, Adelina Antony's feature film Bruising for Basos in the supporting lead role of Rani. Please put your hands together for Dilo. Smells like Hilton lotion, yeah. So, how is everyone? Good, good. I didn't know the lights were going to be on. So, I want to tell you this is a little story about my child Dilo and their journey. I usually don't come to speak with him anymore because I am retired. But, you know, as they say in the art world, anything for Roberta. So, in 1999 is when Dilo told me that she was a gay. Then, she also said, I'm feeling like a little boy captain of woman's body. And, you know, for me, you know, this is all strange. You know, we don't have the gays in Sri Lanka and, you know, there we don't have it. So, here, I have to look who are the gays, you know. And I saw Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell and remember that old tennis player, Martin Anavarbalachandran. So, you see that all these are, you know, the white people and my Dilo is not even fair skin. So, I didn't know what was going on. So, at first, you know, I thought it was my fault. But I realized, you know, now, you know, it couldn't be my fault because it is evident that it is her father's fault. And, yeah, no, truly, they used to, you know, throw the ball, play catch, go more, the lawn, go to home or depot, you know, all these things. I think that her father wanted the son so bad, he turned her into one, you know. So, I had a shock, you know, when Dilo told me that she, he, you know what I'm saying, is a gay or a trans because, you know, these people, they get killed and already in Lancaster, you know, California, it's gay, so I think, you know, why you want to leave Sri Lanka, water on country and come here and get killed? So, anyway, so then I also was thinking, you know, you know, I did some work on myself and I started to think, you know, maybe I am so hard on Dilo because, you know, my first daughter, Krishani, she passed away a long time ago and it was a plane crash and, but anyway, Dilo is not dead and so I am going to bring Dilo now, right now for you all to talk to Dilo and you all smell very, very nice and I feel very happy to be here but I'm also feeling very happy that I'm leaving. Everybody's talking about their cop stories so I thought I might add to the mix and so one of the few times I was pulled over for driving while black was actually, not when I was driving but when I was bicycling at night in Santa Monica, California, okay? And you know Santa Monica, you know what I'm saying? Lit-ass beach city, right? So I'm riding on my bike and I see them in the oncoming traffic and I was like, oh shit, wait, I'm in Santa Monica. So I see them pass me by and out the corner of my eye I see them screech a U-turn and I'm like, shit. Woo, woo, get off your bike, sir. So I did what any man of color would do in this moment in time. I pretended to be a white woman. I was like, what happened, officer? Oh yeah, I'm just coming back from my cardio pull dancing class. Oh yeah, you could totally check my bag. Yeah, they're just tampons with luffa. So, um, Ossifer, why'd you pull me over? And he told me it's because I didn't have a bike light. In lit-ass Santa Monica, you know what I'm saying? So I'm praying to my Hindu gods, praying that nothing bad happens and none of them, 10,000 motherfuckers answer me. But Jesus, God, you know, the white one answered me. He had me on call waiting or some shit and he sends a white dude on his bike rolling right past us coincidentally looking like Jesus. So, okay, so I'm trying to get the officer's attention and he's not paying me mine. So I do my citizenly duty and I was like, stop, you are supposed to have a bike light. It's the law, right officer? To which Jesus responds, dude, I totally didn't know I had to have a bike light. Like, who knows those things. And in a very un-Romanesque fashion, the cops let Jesus go. And I was stuck on the sidewalk. Nothing bad happened that time. Now, you just see my mom and I'm gonna tell you at some point in my history, I was driving to her house and this is probably, I don't know, a couple of months since I had seen her last and I wasn't really on good talking terms with her and I had to tell her two important things. That I had a girlfriend and that I had top surgery. Top surgery for all of you who don't know is a double mastectomy. And I was scared because the last time I told her that I had a girlfriend, she stopped talking to me. Apparently I could be a queer, just not a functioning one. So I opened the door to her house, I get to the kitchen and she's cooking tofu. And I was like, I have to tell you two really important things and you're not gonna like it. In fact, you're gonna get nutty and you're gonna go crazy. And she was like, then don't tell me. I was like, I'm gonna have to, I have to get this off my chest. So she was like, I already know. I'm like, I'm gonna, what do you know? I know that you have a girlfriend now. I do. Are you okay by that? I'm gonna, but I have to tell you this really other, like this whole other thing and this is the one you're really not gonna like I already know, you don't know this one, trust me. No, I know you're going to plan to have some surgery. Kind of, Amma. I already had the surgery. You already? Who was with you? It was Amma, it was Nushi and Thambi, they were with me. Amma, are you okay? Yeah? Are you going to take the injections? Don't take the injections, it's not safe. Amma, it's safe for the most part. Let's talk about that later. Amma, are you okay really? Yeah. But then I got scared, because I thought this is the calm before the storm and pretty soon there's gonna be tofu flying over the fucking kitchen. So I came around to her and I said, Amma, are you sure you're okay? I need ginger. Okay, you need ginger, fine. Let's go to Trader Joe's and we'll get you ginger and you're running low on your hot cocoa and she's a fiend, so we had to go and so we get in the car and I'm like tripped out because she's not talking, she's just looking out the window. Why isn't she going ballistic? This is weird and I didn't get it. We get to the parking lot, go inside Trader Joe and then we get the ginger, but we can't find the hot cocoa. Amma, go up to the clerk guy and ask him where the hot cocoa is and I'll look in the back, okay? You know the clerk, Trader Joe, go ask him. And so meanwhile she's up there, I find it on the far corner, far wall and I'm looking up and down the aisles and I'm like, oh shit, where's Amma? I can't find her, I can't find her. I'm like, she's gonna be crumpled in a heap crying and then I find her and she is near the hot cocoa with Trader Joe and I say, Amma, look, look, I got you your hot cocoa and she looks up at Trader Joe and she looks at me and she tells Trader Joe, oh, don't worry, he already got it for me. Big ass hug first time I ever hugged her in so long because I didn't want her to know that I had the surgery. You just called me, he said, you are confusing me. It's still a strong journey, but we're moving on strong. Thank you so much. It's time for D-LOG. Thank you for hanging in there. I know y'all are ready for a break. We're about to move on to our breakout sessions and we were gonna have people come up from each of those sessions and pitch while you should go to them. There was gonna be opera, there was gonna be comedy, but in the interest of time, we ain't doing that. So what we gonna do is we have volunteers that are gonna be around the room with the signs for each session. So once you decide which session you wanna go to, you can just follow a volunteer there. If you wanna turn to the page in your program that says Future Conversations, I'm just gonna read them out to you and let you know where you can find your volunteer in the space. So the first one is being moderated by Clyde Valentine and it is called Activating Visibility and Cultivating Voice, Community Organizing and Engagement through Cultural Practice in Dallas, Texas, my hometown. So if you wanna see Clyde's, if you wanna hear about what they're doing in Dallas, that's gonna be in the green room and you will meet this volunteer right there and they will lead you to the green room. The next one is called Place Displace, L.A. San Francisco, Making Room for Artists and Community and California's Creative Economy. That's gonna be in the Youth Artist's Lounge which is in the next building and that volunteer is right there and they can guide you there. Next we have Redefining Language Through Identity which will be moderated by none other than James Cass himself. That's gonna be in the screening room which is also in the next building and the volunteer for that is hiding right back over there. Okay, next we have Future Findings, Future Aesthetics in the Howard Lobby and we're gonna be moderated by Jeff Chang out of Stanford, yeah, hold it down. Then we have Changing Structure Shifting Systems in the big room. If you wanna get to the big room, follow that gentleman right there. And last but not least, we have Artists Changing the Course of the River which will be right here in the theater. Those sessions will begin in 15 minutes and those sessions must end at 4.45. So we have to be out of the building at 4.45, go forth and enjoy the rest of your day.