One of the things that was really prevalent in kind of that national conversation

after that shooting was the rate of which the homage for gay of the shooter

and the rate at which the community really came together.

This is Sarah. This is Beth, your listening to Pantzoo Politics, the home of Graceville political conversations.

New Ones Nation is in full swing. Next up, Michigan with Representative Haley Stevens,

and Troy Michigan on September 14th. Then we'll be heading to Louisville to have a conversation with Amy McGrath on September 28th.

Then we've got tickets for sale for Dallas and DC. Get the link in the show notes and get your tickets and come see us live. We're so excited.

We hope that you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend today because of that holiday.

We are going to share with you a very special conversation that Sarah had about if I don't make it, I love you.

We're going to share with you a couple of other survivors in the aftermath of school shootings. This is a heroine collection of 70 narratives covering over 50 years of shootings in America, written by those most directly affected by school shootings, the survivors.

The editors Amy Archer and Lauren Pline-Man reach out to me and asked me to contribute. It was a total blessing and honor to be a part of all these survivors of school shootings coming together and sharing their perspectives.

We had a really, really great conversation. It was a healing conversation for me to talk about what the stories among the survivors having common and how they differ.

And what everybody can take away from these stories. They're also leading a campaign right now to send the book to every single United States Senator in the hopes that these first person perspectives will push the conversation on legislative change forward.

I think the work that they've done is so vital and so important and I'm so happy they can want to talk about it. The book comes out today Tuesday, September 3rd.

So it is now available for purchase. You can get it wherever you purchase books and without further ado, Amy and Lauren.

I am so excited to be joined today by Amy Archer and Lauren Kleinman, the editors of if I don't make it, I love you survivors in the aftermath of school shootings.

I'm also thrilled to be a contributor to the anthology and to have them here for an interview, which will publish on the book's birthday on the day the book comes out.

So Amy and Lauren welcome so much to Pantsy Politics. Thank you.

Thank you.

Now tell everyone a little bit about your backgrounds and what led you to put together this amazing book.

So I am a writer. I'm also a mom and so I felt that Lauren and I had worked together on a previous anthology and it was called My Body, My Words and we worked with writers writing letters to their bodies.

And when that was finished, we really, which is a rare thing in the art world, we really loved working together and we found that we just collaborated really well.

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