Stephanie Everett

And so it was like, okay, add on, add on, add on, add on, add on.

And now we have to like strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip to the point where like, sometimes I still feel like I'm doing that, you know?

A hundred percent.

I always thought of it as like, you know, I did all these things because I was trying to get into a good college.

OK, but I think about it and like the things that I'm doing today are the things I did as extracurriculars to get into college.

Like I'm not working in finance.

I'm not a doctor.

Like I'm not doing the things.

That the immigrant mother would prefer I do.

But I definitely attribute that sort of like wandering and where will I be accepted and where will I be invisible or where will I just kind of, you know, float under the radar or stand out or, you know, to trying to figure out the queer journey.

Isn't that beautiful?

It's like a white rabbit.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's like the little Alice in Wonderland that takes you like, oh, nope, this isn't good.

Now you got to go over here.

Like, I've always felt that way.

How did you kind of start to get comfortable and figure it out?

The college rugby team.

And that's all that needs to be said.

And there it is.