[music] All right. Thank y'all for breathing with me for a second. Um, my name is Karen Hwitt and I'm honored to have the conversation with the ever brilliant and powerful Dr.. Tree Lindsay on today. I say powerful because there is so much power in just words and um words mean things and we're going to talk about truthtelling and survival and liberation and what it means to keep speaking and writing the truth in this moment. Uh just to give a little bit of context because y'all need to know who I'm talking ...