But adrienne maree brown reminds me: we build as fight. Just learning is not just about critique it’s construction. And I’ve begun to dream what that construction can look like. a space where students speak in the language of their ancestors and are met with curiosity correction. Where research means relationship. silence doesn’t mean disengaged but deeply listening. It’s my fieldnotes from Gale don’t sit notebook—they ripple through way I carry myself world: slower more open ready be changed by yet understand.