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Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast. I'm Ayanna Jan.

Today we are speaking with Andrea Fe Gibson. We are largely out of control and I think that we

think we will gain happiness and gain a sense of power over our own lives if we try to control things

in every moment. And it's really liberating to understand that we are largely out of control.

In that way, to try to then sort of catch the wave of the universe.

And that for me has been this experience of coming into my own power is understanding the power of

creation, the divinity of creation, the wonder and mystery of it all, and sort of just going with it.

And that was I'm sitting here, you know, really confronting my mortality and thinking

everything that I've ever lost, I've gained something greater because of that loss.

I could see how these things made me and opened me continuously opened me.

Andrea Fe Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time.

Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend

a poetry show altogether. To hear Gibson is like hearing songwriters play their music,

their trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display. Gibson's poem center around LGBTQ

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