And I'm going to Welcome all back to the Red Nation podcast. My name is Jennifer Marley and I'm

pocket to you from Tewa Territory, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Today we're

joined by Valerie Reynoso.

She has done a lot of amazing work advocating for the abolition of the sex trade.

I also understand you've also done a lot of amazing language revitalization work too, right?

Yes, I have indeed. I even won a Taino Award, a Taino Organization Award for my language

revitalization efforts and for my community service among everything else that I do.

That's amazing. Thank you for joining us today and I love to talk with you more about that.

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So without further ado, I like it to just get started. So Valerie, would you please just introduce yourself? I mean, give us some background about what you do and how you came to the work that you do now.

Hi, first of all, thank you for this opportunity and for taking time out of your schedule to speak with me on these important topics.

I'm a UN advisor, geopolitical analyst, philanthropist, writer, and artist.

Regarding how I became an abolitionist, I will be completely honest that in reality I never

supported the sex trade to begin with because I come from a mostly

conservative background, so traditionalist ideas always influenced me growing up.

The political climate of the liberal feminists made me contemplate these ideas more, and even then

I still didn't agree with them on the inside. I never thought positive of the

sex trait even before I developed a more sophisticated and dialectical

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