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And Samantha.

I'm welcome to stuff that I-Hart Never Told You, a prediction of I-Hart Radio.

And welcome to another activist around the world, and we are jumping into AAPI or Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month,

because that is me.

So we are starting strong with a civil rights attorney, social justice activist, and poet writer Sunu P. Chandi.

I'm very excited.

So in 2023, Chandi published her award-winning poetry book titled My Dear Comrades.

The book is described like this from her website, sunu chandi.net. In this poetry collection,

Sunu Pchandi includes stories about her experiences as a woman, civil rights attorney, parent, partner,

daughter of South Asian immigrants, and member of the LGBTQ plus community. These poems cover

themes ranging from immigration, social justice activism, friendship

loss, fertility challenges, adoption, caregiving, and life during a pandemic. Soonu's poems provide

some resolve, some peace, some community amidst the competing notions of how we are expected to be

in the world, especially when facing a range of barriers. Soonoo's poems provide company

for many who may be experiencing isolation through any one of these experiences and remind us

that we are not, in fact, going it alone. Whether the experience is being disregarded as a woman

of color, attorney, being rejected for being queer, losing a most treasured friendship,

doubting one's romantic partner,

or any other form of heartbreak, soon as poems highlight the human requirement of continually

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