00:00I loved your Teen Vogue articles, it was really touching and you touched on so much and especially
00:05just kind of like how you're navigating being in the community just and feeling very like
00:11othered at times and even with the faith. I think you had a quote where it was like
00:14to have my faith in something I'm sometimes morally against. Is the show helping you with
00:19that or also how do you kind of like process your relationship with all of that present day?
00:22Yeah, no, I think the show's actually helped me open my eyes to a lot of things like that
00:26that I feel like for a long time I wasn't aware of. I feel like subconsciously I was not very
00:31open about sides of myself. I feel like I kind of would cling to my white side rather than my black
00:37side for a long amount of part of my life and I feel like it's opening my eyes to things that like
00:41I just, yeah, I wasn't aware of and it's helping me a lot. What has it opened your eyes to? I think
00:47just parts of the church that like I just don't really like align with. I think it's hard for me
00:51to be very present in something that kind of goes against what I feel is right in some situations
00:57and I never want to like bad talk the church at all. Like that's not my intention. It's just not
01:01personally for me. Yeah, because I know you were even talking in that how on a maybe a lighthearted
01:05side that a lot of women reach out to you saying like thank you for talking about like never having
01:09an orgasm because I never experienced that. On the flip side for the other topics like did you have
01:13like people on the LDS of color DMing you kind of like to make you feel like there's more community
01:19there. Absolutely. I've had girls reach out to me being like I know what it feels like to kind of be like the black
01:23sheep in the room and it's not a bad thing but it's definitely something that like I always kind of
01:26never wanted to see like walking into a room and walking into Sacramento and kind of like being the
01:32only person of color in the room. It's definitely something that's very like obvious but I kind of
01:35always just brush it under the rug. It's like oh it's not a big deal but I do look at situations
01:39like that. I try not to like look at them negatively. I'm just like this is a good thing like yeah I do stand
01:43out in the room but I also stand out in the room.
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