Can you talk a little bit about your journey, your work, and kind of any reflections that you have about that.

Absolutely.

Love the Google, right? I also wanted to butt in earlier with Tisha calling out Shango.

I'm a child of a Batala, so thank you for bringing that into the space.

So around 15 is really when I started to come into my own, right? And what changed for me first and foremost at that point was my access to language.

I majored in English in college, so there's always a reverence for me when I think about how much our words shape our human condition.

But at 15, I finally had the words to describe the gender journey that I found myself on, or rather that I had always been on and am still on.

And so I'm really kind of interested to hear your insights about this and what and how movements are showing up for local communities.