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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies, A Myth and Bullshit, a radio

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Speaker 1: Welcome to season four of Local Radios Wanted for Crimes

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Speaker 1: against the Patriarchy. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to

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Speaker 1: bring you Quarantine Confidential, a special pandemic broadcast about our

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Speaker 1: experiences with quarantine and COVID nineteen. I'm Fiosa and I'm Mala.

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Speaker 1: Our intention behind this mini series is to archive our

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Speaker 1: experiences during this global coronavirus pandemic. Thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us on this journey. In this special edition of Look

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Speaker 1: at Our Radio Quarantine Confidence Shull, we have been bringing

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Speaker 1: you a variety of you know, like uh pandemic related episodes.

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Speaker 1: We've done interviews. Last time on Quarantine Confidential, we interviewed

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Speaker 1: Melina Bobabia about her new film for Rosa about the

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Speaker 1: Molina for coming on the pod. UM. Yeah, we have

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Speaker 1: a lot to cover today. We have even more content

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Speaker 1: We have some really cool stuff in store for y'all

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Speaker 1: Underscore radio and also a big update. So we have

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Speaker 1: amount of resumes and samples, which is amazing. There was

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Speaker 1: a bigger reach this time. We had about fifty people

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Speaker 1: an addition, better audio quality. Yeah, I mean, we had

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Speaker 1: meaningless UM if you aren't able to gain access to them.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is really a place where we've

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Speaker 1: learned a lot from our our reproductive justice partners UM.

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Speaker 1: I think one Plant Parenthood is not a Reproductive Justice organization,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why we work side by side

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Speaker 1: was started by black women rooted in black feminist theory

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Speaker 1: and really centers those that are most impacted, so not

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Speaker 1: just black people, but people of color, indigenous folks, UM

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Speaker 1: and making sure that we have what we need to

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Speaker 1: I think the thing that's so essential and important about

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Speaker 1: that there is more to health care than to be

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Speaker 1: able to access services, but to ensure that, you know,

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Speaker 1: if and when we choose to have children, that were

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Speaker 1: able to provide and them with a safe and healthy

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Speaker 1: So I'm really glad that that you brought up that point.

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Speaker 1: So the the way that this virus and our efforts

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Speaker 1: a result of COVID, it means that like dating and

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Speaker 1: be the same like as they were before. And I'm

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Speaker 1: curious if you had any insights or predictions or projections

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Speaker 1: on your end, especially given the work that you do

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Speaker 1: on how intimacy, dating, sex, and sexuality is gonna the

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Speaker 1: culture around it might shift as a result of this

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Speaker 1: global experience that we're having. I think, as someone who

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Speaker 1: is navigating a relationship in the middle of a pandemic,

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Speaker 1: it is it's definitely different, right, um. Partners can have,

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Speaker 1: you know, different habits for how they social distance or

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Speaker 1: don't social distance. So I think we're honestly going to

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Speaker 1: be relying a lot on on technology to engage into date.

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Speaker 1: I think that trend is going up, but I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I'm unsure of how like things are gonna look um

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Speaker 1: I'm unsure of what the future is going to look

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Speaker 1: folks are going to be more cautious around engaging um

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Speaker 1: folks physically moving forward because of COVID nineteen. Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I just I recently read downloaded Hinge because I feel like,

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Speaker 1: we can face time, and we can text, and we

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Speaker 1: of these things, and now there's a lot of these

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Speaker 1: added layers before you actually meet someone in person. And

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Speaker 1: it's been super interesting to just navigate because it's even

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Speaker 1: call first, and like the FaceTime is now like the

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Speaker 1: new second date. So it is very weird. Damn, that's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about how I feel because of COVID,

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Speaker 1: and so, so bear with me here while I like

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Speaker 1: pros us this this thought with yall, okay, and so

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Speaker 1: I have been thinking about how COVID has also been

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Speaker 1: bringing to light conversations again in different ways about consent.

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Speaker 1: And so we were talking a lot or Mal and

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Speaker 1: I have been talking about whenever we talk about consent,

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Speaker 1: do that without their consent. And so I've been thinking

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Speaker 1: about how COVID has made us reevaluate and reimagine what

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Speaker 1: consent can look like, because literally, your health is at

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Speaker 1: risk now, And so I feel like conversations are being

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Speaker 1: had about consent without actually realizing we're talking about consent

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Speaker 1: here because we're not giving people hugs, we're asking people

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Speaker 1: if we can go over, or asking people if they

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Speaker 1: want to, like even walk to the to the park together,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so I think that

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that this can lead to more conversations about

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Speaker 1: consent and like bodily autonomy. No, I totally agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I think people's under standing of bodily autonomy has suddenly

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Speaker 1: increased with COVID nineteen. So I think I'm hopeful as

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Speaker 1: well that this will hopefully encourage more of a consent

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Speaker 1: culture moving forward. Yeah, it's very interesting that it took

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Speaker 1: something super jarring like this to have us take a

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Speaker 1: step back and re examine our relationship to like personal

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Speaker 1: space and other people's bodies and boundaries, and it's overall

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Speaker 1: a good thing, but like, really it took this very

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Speaker 1: seismic global disaster for us to think about. I think

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Speaker 1: that it's also like, in a way, empowered me to

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Speaker 1: be like, I need you to back up, you know,

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Speaker 1: because in the past, I'd be like, oh, this person

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Speaker 1: is kind of too close, but whatever, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: leave right now. But now it's like, no, I need

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Speaker 1: you to back the funk up, please, you know. And

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Speaker 1: so I think it's also given us, at least for me,

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Speaker 1: it's given me a different way to use my voice

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Speaker 1: in ways that I may have not thought about before.

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Speaker 1: Nice Brianna, I'm wondering does planned parenthood are they? Is

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Speaker 1: plan parenthood giving like adjusted um sorts of like health

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. I've seen, like you know, New York City

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, And what is the What's planned parenthood basically

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Speaker 1: been saying, how has this adapted the sort of like

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Speaker 1: sexual health information that gets put out there? So yes,

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Speaker 1: people are still going to have sex in the middle

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Speaker 1: of a pandemic, right, So, I think one of the

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Speaker 1: things that we've really been doubling down on is how

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Speaker 1: people can protect themselves and have safe sex UM during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic UM. I know some healthcare providers have been

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Speaker 1: coming out with different graphics of how to engage UM

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Speaker 1: not to you know, engage in sexual activity if you're

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Speaker 1: you know, if you have a fever or if you've

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Speaker 1: been exposed UM COVID nineteen. So I think that we've

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Speaker 1: been trying to empower folks to be able to engage

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Speaker 1: us safely in sexual activity in this moment, and I know,

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Speaker 1: UM we have UM. So one of the things that

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Speaker 1: we have to that's super exciting. It's called sex Said

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Speaker 1: in Casa UM. It's a site that we have UM

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Speaker 1: for sex said in Spanish about how folks can have

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Speaker 1: you know, conversations about safe sex UM within their communities

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Speaker 1: but also with their partners as well. That is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I just like googled it real quick. UM, that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it UM and we're gonna link it

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Speaker 1: in our show notes because these resources are really great.

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Speaker 1: I love that they're in Spanish. Thanks for sharing that.

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Speaker 1: I think that will be really helpful to our listeners

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Speaker 1: because these resources are really amazing and I think they're

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Speaker 1: going to be really helpful for our Spanish speaking listeners

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Speaker 1: or folks that just want to share this information with

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Speaker 1: their family members. This is a really great tip. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for sharing this with Thanks for sharing this with us, Brianna.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely So, just to um sort of round out and

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Speaker 1: wrap up our interview, Brianna, where can folks get I

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Speaker 1: guess the best most relevant information about UM planned parenthood

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Speaker 1: health services, especially during COVID nineteen and if folks do

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Speaker 1: want to contribute and help support plant planned parent put

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Speaker 1: planned parenthood efforts during this time, UM, how can they

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Speaker 1: do that? Yes, So I'll give you a couple of

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Speaker 1: resources and then some things that folks can do if

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Speaker 1: they want to get involved. So UM, for more information

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Speaker 1: around the services that planned Parenthood provides, you can go

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Speaker 1: to Planned Parenthood dot org um. If you want to

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Speaker 1: get active through our advocacy arm, you can go to

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Speaker 1: Planned Parenthood Action Fund dot org um. And then two

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Speaker 1: Twitter pages that's really awesome is pp Black calm Um

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy to send you the link to that

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Speaker 1: as well, and then latinos for PP as well. And

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of the questions that I've been

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Speaker 1: getting in this moment UM where a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: are getting politicides is like how can we plug in?

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Speaker 1: How can we support? And I think our number one

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Speaker 1: way that we're asking folks to support in this moment

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Speaker 1: is to support the Movement for Black Lives UM, particularly

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Speaker 1: following the organizers lead UM in their respective communities UM.

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Speaker 1: And I think one thing the left is a couple

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Speaker 1: defund the police UM, which really means investing in community

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Speaker 1: based solutions such as education and healthcare instead of militarizing

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Speaker 1: the police. UM. So we encourage folks to really support

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Speaker 1: the Movement for Black Lives And then second, UM, we're encouraged.

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Speaker 1: You know, it is an election year, so we do

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Speaker 1: lot of great UM sexual and reproductive health champions that

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Speaker 1: are running this year UM, and it's really a great

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Speaker 1: opportunity to to flex our political power UM, particularly in

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Speaker 1: black and brown communities. Thank you so much for all

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Speaker 1: This has been so amazing and I know that our

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Speaker 1: more intimately, where can they find you? Yes, you can

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Speaker 1: find me on Instagram at Brianna Nicole zero seven seven. Amazing, amazing,

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