Hi. Hi, welcome to Let It Out.

I am Katie Dale Bow, and I've hosted this podcast since 2013.

I'm recording today's episode on June 9th.

There is a revolution happening, which is great because black lives matter.

And I support fully justice for far too many black people who have lost their lives

brutally due to systematic oppression in this country.

There wasn't an episode last week because I was and am still listening more than I'm speaking.

We were muted to amplified voices of black indigenous people of color.

I am committed to moving forward and following and amplifying and supporting black voices,

the movement we're in right now. I take responsibility that I and let it out this podcast and

community are committed to improving, to increase diversity and to use my privilege as a white host and producer to

elevate black voices and highlight them. This is our 300th episode of this podcast, which

feels like a really big number to me. It is a big number, and it feels like a milestone and one to celebrate,

but also use as a marker to reflect on how I can continue to improve, diversify, amplify,

marginalized people, and talk more about the systematic oppression in this country that I as a white person

of privilege contribute to. I've been learning so much like probably many of us white people

in the last week on allyship. And I've been working through Linnea Sims' anti-racism practice group, which is tremendous,

and she will be coming on the podcast soon. I've been reading about white fragility,

which is a book that I highly recommend. And I recently watched a talk from 2018 with the author

and some other people at The Strand, which I'll post in the show notes

of this episode that was really illuminating for that particular piece of content as well.

Those are just some of the many things that I'm doing right now, and I'm committed to learning

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