"My dad is a pastor of a Pentecostal church. Everything growing up was very black and white. Very binary. Very "this is right, and this is wrong and, that's it. "No room for interpretation or growth or anything. Coming to Emory, I have learned so much about myself and other people. I refuse to discriminate against people because of who they love, how they love, how they express themselves, and how they just behave. Now it's more like, "Do good, and be a good person, and fight for what's good!" There's this really cool quote that I heard in my Gender Trouble class my sophomore year, "Where there is power, there is resistance." Even though there are so many oppressive systems functioning at this institution and in this state and just this world, there is so much activism that happens here, so many communities that form in response. That is so beautiful. It has taught me how to build community, how to just make space where space wasn't there for us before."