Hello and welcome to Let's talk about it. This is Taylor at your host and I hope that you all are having a wonderful week as best you can these days.

I want to encourage y'all to vote, vote, vote. Okay. I hope that you are already registered to vote. I hope that you have a plan to vote.

I hope that if you're able to vote by mail that you do so, just remember here we all have a right to vote and people have thought very hard for our right to vote.

And that it's a right that we have. It is not a privilege. It is a right to vote. So if you have the privilege of having that right, which not everybody has in our country.

Unfortunately, that I hope you exercise that and you help make your voice be heard.

Today I'm so incredibly thrilled to share this interview with y'all. I had crutches and spice from Instagram crutches underscore and spelled out underscore spice.

I'm on a barbaran and I honestly I have followed her for quite some time now and I'll talk about that as well, but I fucking love this episode. Okay. So much.

And I'm I think in all levels here, we have to remember that we're all always learning, right? That is woke as we want to be as like PC as we want to be.

We don't know everything and we're not going to ever always know everything. We're going to make mistakes. There's going to be things that we are uneducated on, especially when it's not our own lived experience.

And one of those areas for me that's been around disability. And I realized, you know, there really haven't been any podcast episodes, maybe one or two where it's kind of been touched on, but not really.

And also where I haven't actually like given any kind of spotlight as a guest for anyone who has a disability.

So I felt like that was overdue and I am so I mean, she's like one of my favorite people on Instagram that I follow even disability aside.

But also really, really appreciate how she does communicate about that. So Amani is a disability blogger, a content creator, she's a public speaker, a model, an actress.

She's a creative writer, works on web series. She just she she does a lot. And I super appreciate all of the content that she puts out there as always getting into any kind of episode on here.

I hope that y'all are coming into this with an open mind and open heart, open ears. I will give a little bit of a content warning trigger.

We do discuss abortion. We do discuss politics slightly, not really kind of.

But I hope that you come into this open minded. We are going to break down some stigmas around people with disabilities, hand their sexuality and accessibility and talk about ableism.

And I hope you do feel a little bit uncomfortable listening to this episode. I hope that there are things that maybe you sit with afterwards or that you feel kind of turning within yourself as you listen.

And that's a part of the learning. I hope that you give her a follow again that's at crutches underscore and underscore spice.

And check out some of their work and also many other people. Okay, this is just one person here that I'm featuring and that I'm having on the podcast, but also hope to share more of this kind of content because if we really do want to live our lives, especially for me, like in my values.

As someone who would like to identify as an intersectional feminist, we really have to look at actually like the basis of intersectionality by Kimberly Krenshaw and really take a look at how we're actually, you know, living that out.

So yeah, here's here's I guess step in that direction for for me, I think for many of my listeners here is probably around race and around blackness.

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