saying, so it really shows what we re doing in country is a projection going out to the rest of the world, and today we need to be careful because that s scary. my niece is living in china and teaching english right now, and some of your story reflects there she is hey, katherine. it kind of reminds me of that moment, and part of what your site does and part of why i want you at the table is james baldwin was at the intersection of queer identity and blackness. his need to breathe was about both those things and there was always this kind of motorist travel book that helped black folks just figure out where to go in the world within the u.s. and it s also a space where there are parts of the country where excuse me parts of the world where identities are policed, are criminalized where it s actually dangerous to be a person of color, to be a woman, to be gay. there are 36-plus countries today where it is illegal to be homosexual. and gay people face some of the same trouble tha