Hello beloved listeners this is Adrian and what you're about to hear is a

conversation that I had with Macani, them on my Instagram.

I'm doing a series that I'm calling election time with A and B.

I was panicking and kind of freaking out and forgetting my center, my ground, my values, looking

at the selection moment and getting very distracted.

And I decided to reach out to some of the people I know who regularly ground me in different ways and just have a series of conversations asking questions about how to hold this line against fascism while not giving up our stance against genocide.

And the conversations have been really incredible.

After this one, this one that you're going to hear with Makani we didn't do any backup audio so this is just the

Instagram audio and deep gratitude to our producer, Zach for working with it and making something

that we can post. After this we started doing backup recordings.

So the next ones you'll hear, you'll get to hear better audio on all of them. But I think that the conversation that we had is worth any moments of

glitch in terms of the hearing.

So I hope you agree and tune in upcoming we have Malquia Devage Cyril.

We have Ashley Woodward Henderson. We have Sundolo Diyemina.

We have Michelle Masqueranas from Movement Generation.

And then there's several more conversations

I'm gonna have.

And if you missed it, you can go back

and listen to the conversation with Hala that touches in on this.

It was kind of before I knew it was going to become a thing. And then we still have Nalini Stamp and Farai Chadea coming up.

And yeah, again, these conversations are just to help ground you. They have been

incredibly grounding for me. Oh, there was also a conversation with Toshi Reagan, which is written up, so we didn't record ourselves going back and forth but I

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