Nico Carney

Like, and, you know, I don't know.

For me, it's, like, really helpful to just, like, ground myself in this, like, a tethered reality to other human beings throughout time and space that, like, is very helpful for that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like I've had an evolution with it because when I was a kid it was like I gotta get out of here.

I'm too different.

And it's a thing of like when you're young and especially I think like for I don't know I mean I'm sure a lot of different types of people but as a trans person like sorry I'll bring it up again now that I brought it up once.

It's this thing of like I don't know why I'm different.

but there's something different about me and nobody here understands me.

And that, and I think that's an experience a lot of kids have in high school anyway.

But anyway, so that was kind of my mindset and I was like, I got to get out of here.

And then I went to, um, I played soccer all through school.

So I played in college.

And so I went to wake forest, which is where I played.

And, um, which is not that much different from Georgia.

It's like a very, a very wealthy school in North Carolina.

So like, it was a lot of them more of the same, but so I was still kind of feeling like this, like I got to get out of there.

And then I was back home with my folks in Savannah during COVID.

Uh, and I like had such a new appreciation for the city and just like,

I got to meet some people that were, like, not my parents' friends or not my friends' parents, and just, like, a new idea of, like, what the city was made up of and stuff, and it was just, like, a really eye-opening thing to do, like, to experience at 21 and be like, oh, like, I, like, lived in this bubble within this city that I felt very oppressed by, but there's so many other types of people that live here, and there's obviously so much history to Savannah, and so I just had, like, a much broader appreciation for just, like, what the South represented and, like, all the erased people that get, you know,

erased by like the Northern elitism of like, we should just let them fuck themselves over and like, yeah, go legislate yourselves into the dust.