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Speaker: I'd say one thing that gives me hope is just the sheer spite that can be cajoled out of our community if once we're pressed against a wall, just how they're able to rally against very awful things like anti -trans advocates.
Speaker: coming on campus and et etc because some of us don't always make it out unscathed and That is horrible. and for those of us who are left. Really all we have is that spite and that rage and just that will to keep going in spite of it all. And I think that's really powerful.
Speaker: and welcome to Power Beyond Pride, a weekly queer change -making podcast bringing you voices and ideas from across our fierce and fabulous spectrum. to transform our world. I'm Melody KG. Minneapolis -based artivist and provocateur.
Speaker: Each week, we sit down with activists and changemakers across the LGBTQIA plus community. for fighting for equality on every level. And I'm Daniel WK. Lee, author, poet, and the rain that Milli Vanilli tried to blame.
Speaker: Today we're aiming our monocle towards the college campus. We're a new generation of LGBTQ. plus organizers and activists, are creating resistance and shaping how their communities respond to the profound peril of our times. Our guest today is Bree Byers, the co -president of the We are a coalition at Illinois State University.
Speaker: Brie leads initiatives and programming. like the in her image film series. annual transgender day of visibility events and creates safer More farming spaces for LGBTQIA plus students.
Speaker: Spree? Welcome to Power Beyond Pride. Thank you. Glad to be here. Yeah, thanks so much for for joining us, Brie. How are you feeling stepping into the space with us?
Speaker: And for the listeners who may not be familiar, would you... Tell us who you are, what you do, and and what the Queer Coalition is. is is up to. My name is Bri. I'm one of the co -presidents of Queer Coalition at Illinois State University, which is an affinity group for queer faculty, staff, and grad students.
Speaker: And we just do different programming throughout the year supporting our bass just doing different things like some film series, some advocacy, awesome some education opportunities, and it's a really good time.
Speaker: That's awesome. And are you... Are you a a student leading this? Are you faculty? Do you? what is What is your position sort of in this in this realm?
Speaker: I am a staff member at ISU. I am a multimedia specialist, which is basically a fancy word for videographer. And yeah, I work at Career Coalition as basically a volunteer position.
Speaker: Hmm. wow That's great. That's incredible. Yeah. Since the blossoming of kind of anti -genocide organizing fun.
Speaker: college campuses across the country. organizing, student organizing, faculty organizing. really has been curbed or at least heavily scrutinized by kind of all levels of power, including the Trump. Government? Can you describe what?
Speaker: The organizing environment has been at Illinois State and How has the queer coalition? navigated it in order to do the kinds of programming and advocacy.
Speaker: that it wants to do. Yeah, I'd say there is a bit of a... A bit somewhat of a chilling effect just because of... A few different things that have been happening. on And so there was last. somewhere we didn't have Charlie Kirk on campus and there was a big response to that.
Speaker: With our student body and our queer student body, certainly, in addition to staff and faculty. Last October, we had anti -trans activist Chloe Cole on campus who was invited by an RSO on campus as well. and Queer Coalition actually hosted a trans resource fair on Earth One.
Speaker: to basically be like... Hey, so there's really kind of this just... animosity towards us right now we feel just publicly and Yeah.
Speaker: There may be some people who really don't know what kind of resources are out there for them. they might be feel scared or alone and We just did a resource fair out in the quad with a bunch of campus partners.
Speaker: registered student organizations. And just... put the resources out there in front of them so that they can see it. that's How was that receipt? Yeah. It was really well received by our campus community. I gotta say, we had lots of people stop by, lots of students stop by, faculty, even some people in the administration stopped by just to see how we were doing. So that was...
Speaker: That was really nice to hear. To see itself. and after the sign making there was a protest surrounding the building that chloe ko was in and Whatever material change came out of it, I would say it really bolstered our morale on campus.
Speaker: For sure. That's really great. Yeah, campus organizing is is so interesting and it's been so interesting as of late. in really the past several years.
Speaker: From your perspective, breathe like. Before you started doing this work, I mean... Were you seeing any gaps in in queer student support?
Speaker: that made this work feel necessary or like what, what called you to organize in this way? Hmm. Illinois State University has some LGBT...
Speaker: undergrad organizations that they are organizing to and that they have leadership of as well. But a lot of the times what Career Coalition do will just help bolster that and help support undergraduates in our own ways with what we're able to do and what we have capacity for.
Speaker: and So while certainly students are able to organize for themselves that extra little push is very much helpful and very much welcome. Just as far as showing undergraduates and students that they're not alone and their campus community is there for them.
Speaker: Excellent. Yeah, I was a I was kind of a campus. Leader. While I was at NYU. And I always felt like the collaborations or partnerships with non -LGBTQ organizations.
Speaker: student organizations. I was an undergrad at that point. were particularly nourishing. I remember very... very very clearly and memorably doing a a conversation with Lucia, which is kind of the left.
Speaker: the The Latina, Latino, Latina. student organization called then this is before Ricky Martin came out and was called What if Ricky Martin was gay?
Speaker: And it was really interesting. higher room of, of these undergrads just kind of like just kind of like talking about like what that would mean to what that would mean to them what what they perceive as.
Speaker: how that would kind of like... transform or ripple through through the culture. i'm I'm curious for you. Bree. If you could share some experience with working with other groups, either otherwise there student groups or other affinity groups. where you kind of saw that impact and thought.
Speaker: This was affirming. This is why I should do that. i should not This is why our our work is so important. And perhaps more broadly. Are there any kind of campus -wide issues that the queer coalition has been in?
Speaker: Well. coalition with other groups to address. or achieve. That's a good question. A lot of what Career Coalition does is programming, but we also try to serve in advocacy whenever we can.
Speaker: A lot of what we try to support is... With yearly fundraising efforts, we have something called the LGBTQ Plus Student Support Fund. And yearly, that basically acts as like a scholarship or basically like a mutual aid fund to LGBTQ students in need.
Speaker: But to go but back to your original question. as far as partnering with non -LGBTQ organizations on campus and off campus. I'd say we we do.
Speaker: We are in conversation with a lot of the other affinity groups, whether it be for Asian American Pacific Islanders or... ah One for... black employees on campus. or That's the next employees on campus as well. We are in conversation with them and we generally find community with each other just as. bouncing ideas off of each other and things like that. Just a little quick follow up. Are there formal structures that...
Speaker: Yeah. I do affinity groups like meet regularly or student groups across leaders and everything like. mute as part of but ah yeah I don't know, like a...
Speaker: system or institution or something like that or ah or or I don't know. I don't know if tradition is the right word, but as a kind of process. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say the registered student organizations are... I think more like clubs, but the affinity groups on campus are more structured organizations. We meet monthly, we have agendas and minutes, and we vote on things.
Speaker: And it's more structured in that way, as far as we collectively as a group decide what we want to... do as far as programming or anything else. Yeah, great.
Speaker: We are just getting started here with this conversation, so don't go anywhere. When we come back. We're diving into Bree's personal journey and how their life fuels their leadership. We will be right back.
Speaker: Welcome back. This is Power Beyond Pride, a queer change -making podcast, and I'm Daniel W .K. Lee, and I'm here with my co -host. Melody KG, and we're here with Brie.
Speaker: buyers. free Was there a defining moment in your life that led you to kind of organizing advocacy? How has your personal journey kind of shaped the way you approach this work. I'll tell you how I started of this was I got hired by Illinois State University in February of 2024.
Speaker: And I was kind of new to feeling things out, but... One of my coworkers, they... are on the board of Queer Coalition. And they came up to me and were like, hey, and we have a board member at large position open. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Speaker: um So I was eventually cajoled into joining as a member at large. And I was very grateful to be able to help in that way. And then about six months later, the co -presidents... One of the co -president positions became vacant.
Speaker: And there was a call for our board. Does anybody want to step up and be the co -president? And nobody was raising their hands. I was just like... Oh, oh, all help. I'll be an helper, I suppose, if nobody else wants to.
Speaker: And honestly, just my entire experience being with Queer Whole Ocean has just been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done in my life. Honestly, I feel like I'm... actually working, doing meaningful work for the people in my community. And I'm very glad to be doing that with all the different things that we're doing. Just a quick question. Did you did you also do a student organizing when you were an undergrad or anything? No, I was i wasn't.
Speaker: out per se so i was very much kind of in the In the weeds as far as my life at that point. you Okay. And I was going to ask essentially the same question, Daniel. So that this is really your first foray into into organizing.
Speaker: It sounds like that's so cool. And it sounds like... boom You're. having fun and feeling like. Period. you're doing meaningful work and getting something out of it, which is.
Speaker: which is what we want. And it's it's really incredible. I'm glad that it's. It's been that for you. Have there been any? big hurdles that you're... trying to overcome as far as either administration, bureaucracy.
Speaker: um Uh... Image. stigma, anything like that that shows up. I will say some of the hurdles for me personally is that politics slash bureaucracy angle to it because First and foremost, I just want to be able to help people in my community. and just put out like I'm more of an ideas person. Let's do a film series. Let's do a resource fair. I am starting to learn more and more the politics and the bureaucracy aspect of things. That's been a little bit of a hurdle to get towards, but it's definitely worth the effort trying.
Speaker: Yeah, absolutely. I did some student organizing as well. both as an undergrad and when I was in grad school. And some of the... i'm I'm actually going to say most of the bureaucracy stuff.
Speaker: Especially as someone. Like me, who lives with a little bit of neurodivergence, I was always like... What is happening? Why can't we? Just. do this thing like it seems so easy for us to be able to get from a to b and yet there's all this Let's just do it. why So I totally feel you.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. You brought up the film series. I'm super interested in in chatting about that. It's called In Her Image, right? That was the name of the first one.
Speaker: Oh great! Tell us tell us about the film series. Yeah, so When I was still a board member at large for Queer Coalition, I was told that... one of the functions is to bring ideas to the table so i'm like what can i bring to the table I really like movies and films. So I was like, what if we did a film screening at our local theater?
Speaker: I think that might be really nice as well. As time went on, that turned into a meeting. And it turned into a couple other meetings. And it eventually snowballed into this whole, why don't we put on a themed film series with four different films at our local theater?
Speaker: And... That just blew any ideas that I had out of the water. And that has just gone beyond my wildest dreams when I first pitched it. So... that's been really wonderful in 2025 we did this film series called inner image a film series celebrating queer woman and the stories they tell That was centered around. queer woman filmmakers and queer woman stories. We had a lot of breadth in that one we did.
Speaker: Dyches Camera Action, we did... This one called Lingua Franca. We did The Watermelon Woman. And. There's another one we did that's escaping right now, but I'm sure I'll remember it after we get done with this and then In February of this year, we did another film series called Fired Up. the American AIDS crisis on film.
Speaker: And what we did, and we just curated a bunch of different films from the 80s and the 90s. First -hand accounts, some documentaries, some fiction. And in February 2026, we did this film series called Fired Up, The American AIDS Crisis on Film.
Speaker: which is basically we curated these films from the 80s and 90s, some documentaries, some fiction, but all very much speaking truth to what was happening to people at the time and the human toll it took on people.
Speaker: And we did a lot of advertising for that. We got a really good response out of that from the community and I'm very glad that we were able to put that on. Circling back to some... a question that Mellie had earlier. was it or these Were these film series kind of like in... response to a kind of a need that you had identified within the campus community or is it just kind of an idea like oh let's do this may be fine if we build it they will come
Speaker: Yeah, I will say my initial thought was, let's do this. If we build it, they will come, kind of a train of thought. if you If you want to talk about it in hindsight, however, I will say I very much am not.
Speaker: Film enthusiasts, I really like the medium as far as telling stories and reaching people with stories. I think it's a very effective medium at getting people to feel things and learn things. and The fact that we're able to do this for our community members who are interested in it is just spectacular.
Speaker: I have an off script question for you. which is... If. Given your your proclivity for film. And you're. positionality in in organizing.
Speaker: What? what is one What are one or two films that you would absolutely recommend any young queer organizer watch to? start their journey or to to fuel the fire or to...
Speaker: ah Get them inspired to. to make change. Anything come to mind? I have two. So the first one is actually the film that kind of got me started to being like, hey, we should show a film.
Speaker: is this 2023 film called I Saw the Teen Eagle. And that's basically this kind of like artsy film. That's basically just a huge allegory for transness or more broadly queerness and self -realization and self -discovery and things like that.
Speaker: It's very abstract and how it tells the story, but like any queer person watching it can easily identify the themes of the film as far as. Nats.
Speaker: The second film I would recommend is this one documentary. from 2012 called United in Anger, A History of Act Up. It's the 2012 film. that uses exclusively archived activist film footage. That was... actually shot by Act up.
Speaker: video activists. curated by Jim Hubbard, who was an AIDS video activist at the time. hands. It really just goes into just... how ACT UP was formed, what they did, like what it took to do that what they did.
Speaker: And just generally the... scope and the scale of their actions and the scope and the scale of the need of why people needed them to take action as well. It's a very comprehensive, very...
Speaker: impactful film I would say. I wrote that one down. ACT UP is... one of those one of those historical organizations turned movements.
Speaker: that like you look to as, as any sort of harm reductionist, which I. I definitely consider myself. and and just really admired the work that they did. So thanks for bringing that up. I will i will look that up for sure.
Speaker: Mm -mm. Well, for sure. I mean... I think we... I think the later generations for sure just need to kind of continue to look back at that history. and and let it be so instructive because really they were the avant -garde in terms of work direct action I think Sarah. Sarah Schulman kind of talked about a simultaneity response.
Speaker: Or so it was like so yeah they wouldn't they didn't need a consensus basis to do things. They just kind of like had. Kind of like infinity groups, right? If you want to, if I people wanted to do things. do something like they went and did that and like They were. Trying not to become obstacles. to each other and or put obstacles in front of themselves they were just kind of doing that and i every every time Okay.
Speaker: i i read or or or see things about act up i'm just like Like. We have to kind of like learn from this and like, especially now as we face. The tax that we... that we're getting.
Speaker: Actually, this is kind of like a perfect segue to talk about the day of trans resilience, which I understand was. had a lot of kind of like off -campus like support and appeal Why don't you tell us a little bit about that and then...
Speaker: kind of with the ongoing political and social attacks. on individuals of trans experience. how have students and and faculty and staff been responding to that on campus.
Speaker: Yeah, so... What really kickstarted those trans resilience events was in September or October. We got word that... a college student organization invited Chloe Cole to speak on campus, who is an anti -trans advocate.
Speaker: And... We as a. And I would say as a campus, for the most part, we're just like, we cannot let this stand. unencumbered.
Speaker: So... we In the span of a few weeks, we really organized. this resource fair just on the quad, as I was saying earlier. And that was really well received by campus. We got a lot of people. along Cheers.
Speaker: thanking us for having this out there and just saying that this is really important and what we need right now. and That was really nice to hear. So we did that. And then as a continuation of the trans resilience.
Speaker: theme. a spiritual successor, if you will. We held a colloquium, which is basically a fancy word for symposium. the Trans Resilience Colloquium, which was basically an interdisciplinary forum.
Speaker: that put forward different performances and academic presentations highlighting trans issues and voices. So we had... trans femme queen perform as well. We had some poetry read. We had some...
Speaker: academic theses is discussed. It was a really nice time. That's really awesome. We need to take a quick break, but when we come back, we'll get Bree's vision of the future. And then it'll be time for a part beyond pride. Speed Brown. Stay with us and we'll be right back.
Speaker: Welcome back to Power Beyond Pride. I'm Melody and I'm here with my co -host Daniel and we're here with Illinois State University. Student organizer. free buyers.
Speaker: Three, what gives you hope? for the future of LGBTQIA+. ah community and what kind of community are you hoping to help build not just on campus but beyond it?
Speaker: I'd say one thing that gives me hope is just... The sheer... spite that can be cajoled out of our community if once we're pressed against a wall, just... stop Oh my goodness. Fueled by rage. Yeah, you should see some of the... ah actions of just the student body, several different student organizations, and just how they're able to rally against very...
Speaker: awful things like anti -trans advocates. coming on campus and et etc. Because some of us don't always make it out unscathed. and That is horrible. And for those of us who are left.
Speaker: Really all we have is that spite and that rage and just that will to keep going in spite of it all. And I think that's really powerful. As far as things that I want to see in the future. and just...
Speaker: Really just like more unified. just community. I'd i love it to see just LGBTQ advocacy just integrated across general non -LGBTQ organizations or communities and things like that. That'd be really nice to see.
Speaker: If I'm able to plug something real quick, I'm actually trying to build a local organization for trans women and trans femmes in my area. called Twin City Transfums. And it's just basically...
Speaker: No. I've lived where I'm at for most of my life. And I've never once met a trans person until I joined queer, coal or a trans woman until I joined Queer Coalition.
Speaker: wow And I... No, I'm not alone in that. We're only... 0 .5 % of the population as far as trans women and trans folks are concerned. And we're not distributed evenly across the country.
Speaker: So I know I'm not the only one having that visibility problem. and I figured it'd be really nice just to be able to have A space where other people like me can be put in front of each other and meet each other and engage in community with each other. So that's something that I'm trying to build for the future.
Speaker: Queer Coalition has really... I really got bit with the community engagement bug in joining Queer Coalition, and I'm really just trying to follow that through and do what I can.
Speaker: Yeah, I love that. I love that you were like. started organizing on this campus project and we're like Fuck yeah, representation. I'm going to go out and I'm going to build this thing in my in my community. and like bring bridge those two worlds of campus beyond campus.
Speaker: I love that you're doing that. it's It's so hard to be to be an organizer sometimes that I just like, boom i ah I honestly love to see when folks...
Speaker: just have so much passion and or rage that fuels their They're wanting to To start. doing the thing that will. Make the future better.
Speaker: And I. I... We wish you like all the best luck in that. Thank you. as Yeah, I'm just on the mindset. Nobody else is doing this. So, I mean, I might as well. Absolutely. It is. Yeah. And the world needs a lot more doers. where We're in our media ties and our specifically kind of social media ties world. We have a lot of like armchair orators trying to just say and egg give their opinions, but not really kind of step up and take action. and
Speaker: doing Doing the thing, as you were kind of saying, is is really... amazing and i and i think it'll continue to kind of nourish you as you as you as you go along It's time for our speed round of questions. Um, where we get to know you a little bit better.
Speaker: Just don't try to overthink it. You eat let your a reptilian brain take over. Yeah, just give us the the first answers to that come to mind. Are you ready?
Speaker: No. Yeah, I'm ready Okay, great. what's your What's your favorite comfort movie? Ooh, comfort movie. Kiki's Delivery Service. Yes, I love Kiki's. Incredible.
Speaker: I don't know that. What's that about? Yeah, yeah. It's ah it's a Studio Ghibli. Animated films, so like... In the. In the Princess Mononoke spirited away kind of genre. um about this young witch who...
Speaker: ventures away from home as her. It's the traditional rite of passage. and She goes out and learns how to be a witch and it's very cute. There's a talking cat. She ends up being a ah baker's assistant.
Speaker: It's very wholesome. Sounds soothing. Absolutely. yeah Speaking of soothing, what is your go -to self -care ritual? I'd say my go -to self -care ritual is just winding down and watching a movie. To be honest. I started the film series and that's for a reason. I'm a film buff and I like movies.
Speaker: Excellent. Favorite genre? Oh, film. o That's a horror. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Can you speak to why?
Speaker: What is it about that genre that pulls you? I don't know. I just especially the horror thrillers. I just love being on the edge of my seat. It's almost like a roller coaster. It's just like you're oh. What's going to happen?
Speaker: and And then it happens. And then you're just like, whoa. So, yeah, that that adrenaline build up. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Can we take a quick side quest on this on this particular... on this particular thread. Melody, are you ah a a horror film watcher?
Speaker: Have you done more reading of horror than watching? because I love you. Because I have. I have pretty bad anxiety, to be honest, and so jump scares really affect me. so so But longer, like, psychological thrillers I kind of enjoy, but the actual sort of horror...
Speaker: jump scare gore, not so much. I was actually thinking about it this week, actually, maybe even yesterday. I was... I was kind of thinking about why I don't really watch horror films.
Speaker: and i I think I had concluded that. I don't. i don't um I don't find... pretty ah Like, uh... an appeal to kind of watch.
Speaker: Mostly white folk do weird. Dumb shit. that gets themselves killed. And I'm like, I i don't need that. Because that... I'm gonna... All. It's just real life.
Speaker: That's just the exact guys all around so I'm like because it's because the genre is mostly white subjectivity and stuff like that and I i I think I do. I think that's part of him. Just like, I don't need.
Speaker: More. versions of. White. Saviorism? Or like. because they usually there can be ah an element of that obviously if they escape or something like that or Or.
Speaker: Or... Yeah, just kind of more that kind of. centrality of of ah of of of And white folks that way.
Speaker: I just never thought of it and forget. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. yeah So. i I love that analysis and hadn't really thought about it like that until just now. but like Thinking about. kind of in response to that, like Jordan Peele film.
Speaker: Right. sinners, right? What do you think about those types of... Of. of films as but to to both of you. asking this question. What do you what do you feel about...
Speaker: those types of things in response to. the the horror genre. I mean, I think they're great ands because I think they are in a way a response to kind of like. Hey. hunt a a a default like white subjectivity that happens in, in film, obviously outside of like Asia, right? like the Asian horrors title, kind of different. different thing, but.
Speaker: I mean, I love that. I mean, I thought centers was really enjoyable, interesting layer and cultural and in a different sense that really did center blackness. Right. And and that in that way.
Speaker: And so. Yeah. that difference made it. made it really interesting and special. And that was probably the last. quote unquote horror film that I saw. No, yeah, I saw Sinners last year. I thought it was amazing. I've seen a couple of Jordan Peebles films, and those are really good, too. I think horror, not all the time, but it has a track record of just making...
Speaker: Commentary about different aspects of... life or society or what have you just general commentary And I think those examples that you cited are... really good examples of.
Speaker: horror at its best, honestly. also As a genre. Yeah. Thank you for. Taking the side quest with me. Yeah. yeah sure Anytime. Anytime.
Speaker: Okay, back to Rapid Round. What motivates you on hard days? What motivates me on hard days is... But one of these Beyond Hard Days is...
Speaker: If I don't do it... Someone else might not do it, so I might as well do it. Hmm. Absolutely legit. yeah I think that's... that does separate people from being successful or not, right? like You're just saying. Just pick up the mantle.
Speaker: And that's great. That's absolutely great. What's the song that defines your current mood? I struggle to think of any songs. ah Which is probably very damning about me the music.
Speaker: seen perhaps. We'll go with that. look Yeah. Commentary on the music scene. Commentary. Insert commentary on music scene. Incredible.
Speaker: What is something you're unlearning? right now. I am unlearning. feeling shame for taking up space. Yeah. I... Yeah, I i feel.
Speaker: if I want to be somewhere and I feel like I need to be there or I feel like I should. be there then i shouldn't feel bad about Trying to do that.
Speaker: Hell yeah. Yeah, that's that's what that's what we're all about. yeah Absolutely. Name one of your heroes and why are they so important or inspiring to you?
Speaker: just Oh, that's a good one. Hmm. I wouldn't say hero, but I'd say somewhat, okay. I'd say someone who inspires me is This Australian film director, Alice Mayo McKay.
Speaker: She... is very much this DIY filmmaker. she's she's made like what six feature films and she's only in her early 20s And I think that's crazy. She's just out there doing, she's doing all these.
Speaker: movies just about transness and about queerness on a level that I really haven't seen from any other blockbuster films at all. So I think she's doing something. great and she's this a doer and I think we all should could be a little bit more doers.
Speaker: What would you say, Bree, to a student who's struggling to find community? For a student who's struggling to find community, I would... Just say that Google is your friends. Look online for any groups near you or just ask.
Speaker: people in positions of authority who you think Might know What? options are available to you. I think just having a...
Speaker: insatiable sense of curiosity can get you a lot of places. Love it. absolutely Absolutely. And this question we love to ask all of our...
Speaker: our Our guests. What does power beyond pride mean to you? And say power beyond pride to me means... Not just...
Speaker: Like... sashay fascism away or what have you but Just like trying to... empower others and be empowered in your everyday life, just in the minutia.
Speaker: of life and just trying to Do your best for other people and also for yourself. just every day. Yeah. Absolutely. Bree, where can people follow you and find your work? People can follow us if they just Google ISU Queer Coalition on Facebook or Instagram.
Speaker: I don't have any personal social medias myself, so... Yeah, just follow our feeds and you'll get a prize of of all what we're doing. Good for you for going on social media blackout. I love that. Oh, yeah. it it good is it's It's done my it's on my mental health a good bit ah a good bit of. Goodness. Good. That's revolution, to be frank. That really is.
Speaker: Absolutely. Hell yeah. Well, Brie, thank you so much for your leadership. your voice and your commitment. to creating safer and stronger spaces.
Speaker: both on and off campus. We're out of time for this podcast episode, but... Would love to have you again if you'll... if you'll honor us in in joining us again. We'd love to have you back.
Speaker: yeah I'd love to thank you for having me that is awesome thank you and Thank you. everyone for listening. Remember, hope is still alive and we spread it. wide. I'm your co -host, Daniel W. K. Lee, poet, author of the book Anatomy of Want. And you can follow me. at strong plum on instagram.
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