Welcome back to another episode of all my relations. We're so happy that you've joined us today.

And we just want to start by telling you that we love you and we're grateful for you.

And thank you so much for joining us on this podcasting journey.

I think you're in for a real treat today.

Today something really special is happening and Adrian is going to tell you why.

Thanks.

Uh, no, I, I'm like so excited to share this conversation just because this was the very first episode that we recorded together.

You can tell when you're listening to it, how excited we are about this project and just like joyful and full of this

anticipation to be able to talk with our really good friends, um, just come at calf and Jamie Akuma about their work in the world of native fashion.

So I love listening to it because we've become friends only through this world of native representations.

Like it's not separate from the work that we do our friendship.

So I love that you can hear that long standing relationship that we have just through the excitement in our voices and the like laughter and the

the way we use shorthand for a lot of things and kind of assume that everyone knows what we're talking about.

But I think it's a beautiful episode and it's fun to just hear that joy in our voices as native women to get to sit and talk together about something we care about, which is native fashion.

Yeah, and also, you know, I think maybe not often do we get to hear the, the sort of intimate conversations and the giggle and the love and.

And like you said, the shorthand expressions, but also, you know, it's just sort of the way that we would naturally discuss these topics with one another.

And so I think that in that way you get this sort of fluid conversation that feels like you're sitting in your auntie's kitchen with your with your cousins and getting the opportunity to just sort of like giggle and and reminisce.

And that to me is why this is so special.

I love that we're getting to come together with with women that we admire and love and respect and and have a lot of fun with.

Fashion is often relegated to this realm of being like elitist or inaccessible or expensive.

But for native folks like Jessica talks about this in her work a lot that our ancestors were stylish, she always says like we thought and think a lot about the ways that we represent our communities through the close.

So they're so loving that we were to me this native fashion movement is just an extension of that of being able to represent who you are and where you come from and do it in a really cool and of the moment way while also honoring your ancestors and your community.

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