Min kittel er for kort | SHE'S A SHOW

Text: Mette Moestrup
Music: Miriam Karpantschof
Video: Kajsa Gullberg
Image: SHE’S A SHOW video still

Min kittel er for kort / My Uniform’s too Short

"My Uniform's too Short" is a working-class song with a feminist refrain. It is also included in Mette Moestrup's book of poetry Dø, løgn, dø/ Die, lie, die (2012). Mette Moestrup worked as a dishwasher in a hospital in the 1990s and had to work in a short white nurse-like uniform.

The video was made in 2014, long before the digital platform was created, by Swedish photographer Kajsa Gullberg in collaboration with SHE'S A SHOW. We made an open call-for-dancers on social medias, and the dance moves were improvised in a short workshop. Among the dancers in the video are the Greenlandic artist Jessie Kleemann, and the Danish writers Johan Davidsen and Caspar Eric.

MIN KITTEL ER FOR KORT / MY UNIFORM’S TOO SHORT

De hvide kitler.
De hvide kitler i metalskabet.
De venter på anonym krop.
De venter på min krop.

Jeg tager nylonstrømper på.
Jeg tager en hvid kittel på.
Jeg ser ned ad min selv:
Min kittel er for kort.

Min kittel er for kort,
og det er noget lort,
for jeg er feministisk,
og kitlen er sexistisk.

Arbejdet er fysisk, det påvirker mig psykisk.
Hver gang jeg bukker eller strækker mig, kryber kitlen op.
Jeg hiver den ned. Bukker mig. Den kryber op.
Jeg hiver den ned. Strækker mig. Den kryber op.
Jeg hiver den ned. Og sådan bliver det ved og ved og ved.
Jeg bliver så vred. Jeg undertrykker vreden for penge.
Jeg arbejder fysisk for penge i min kittel.

Min kittel er for kort,
og det er noget lort,
og hjernen går i sort.
Hvad er det for en norm
med sådan en uniform?
Jeg knokler i en parodi
på en fortærsket fantasi.

Jeg tager nylonstrømper på.
Jeg tager en hvid kittel på.
Jeg ser ned ad mig selv:
Min kittel er for kort.

Når man har PMS, er man jo bare skidesur, ja.
Og nej, min kittel ligner overhovedet ikk en burka.
Men fuck nu af for oh la la,
jeg har kommunister i lysthuset, ha-ha-ha-ha,
og drømmer om en klasseløs intelligentsia.

Min kittel er for kort,
og det er noget lort,
for jeg er feministisk,
og kitlen er sexistisk

(dans feministisk)


MY UNIFORM'S TOO SHORT 

The white uniforms
The white uniforms in the metal locker
They are waiting for anonymous bodies
They're waiting for my body

I put nylon stockings on
I put a white uniform on
I take a look at myself
My uniform's too short

My uniform's too short
and that is so fucked up
'cause I'm a feminist and
my uniform is sexist

My uniform's too short
and that is so fucked up
'cause I'm a feminist and
my uniform is sexist

Working physically gets to my state of mind
Everytime I bend down or reach up, it rides up
I pull it down. Bend down. It rides up
I pull it down, reach up. It rides up.
I pull it down. And so it goes on and on and on
I get so mad. I supress my anger for money
I work physically for money in my uniform

My uniform's too short
and that is so fucked up
and my brain gets mess up
How come it is a norm with such a uniform?
I work hard in a parody on an old corny fantasy

I put nylon stockings on
I put a white uniform on
I take a look at myself
My uniform's too short

When one has PMS one is pissed-off, won't take no crap
and, no, my uniform is not a bit like a niqab,
but eat my shorts for oh la la
I surf the red wave, surf the red wave, ha ha ha
and dream about a classless intelligentsia

Dance feministic
Dance feministic, dance dance feministic
Dance feministic dance dance feministic
Dance feministic dance dance feministic

My uniform's too short
and that is so fucked up
'cause I'm a feminist and
my uniform is sexist

My uniform's too short
and that is so fucked up
'cause I'm a feminist and
my uniform is sexist

Min kittel er for kort

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