 As a black woman, a woman of the global majority, this work is essential. For what I've experienced in my life, dealing with racism and sexism, I feel as though we need to be able to create a classroom, create a community where we can talk because I know I'm not the only one that has experienced this. But as we've seen with George Floyd and a number of other black people who have lost their lives, we can no longer ignore talking about race or talking about sexism or talking about anti-Semitism and so forth. We have to. But for me, coming from my own standpoint, I feel that I have a responsibility as a professor to engage my students in these conversations. From my own identity, it's just like, I feel like I have to. It's like, but then what happens is people of color, we end up doing this work and this is tough work. And so we also have to do our own racial healing. One of the ways that I do this work is first of all, I take care of myself. Being a woman, a black woman of a global majority, this work oftentimes falls on our shoulders. But I do believe that I, as well as my non-white colleagues, have the responsibility. For me, there are times that the work, talking about what people have experienced and we'll talk about slavery. We'll talk about police brutality. And it's tough. I'm gonna tell you, sometimes I go home and I just have to chill, relax, take a deep breath because I know I just had a heavy day. But then once I'm rested, I get back up and I do this work again because for too long, we have kept this work hidden. I didn't talk about racism for many, many, many years throughout my teaching. I didn't because when you are a person of a global majority, people think that, oh, this person has their own agenda. This person is talking about this only because they're black or they're Asian or they're Latinx and so forth, right? But these are our true experiences. We deal with racism and sexism on a daily basis. When I leave my house, I know what world, what kind of world I'm stepping into. And I know that if I can at least get my classes, my students talking about, for example, what black students at Western Washington University experience over the years and what they're experiencing now, my students can be more mindful. And mindfulness is another way that I take care of myself and I also encourage students to do the same. So in our classroom, we will look at different mindfulness videos. We'll read articles about how to be in the moment, how to be where we are. And if we can actually dialogue in the moment, we can get the work done. So for me, in order to do this work, yes, I have to be engaged in my own racial healing, my own mindfulness and self-care. And in turn, I teach the students how to do the same thing.