I met my wife eight years ago at the Small International School. When the time came for us to think about looking for a new school to go to together, many of our colleagues had advice. They told us, look, you should probably think about one city, two different schools, or just applying to singles. An international school might not be ready for a state-sex couple. We ignored their advice and we have since moved two more times choosing to ignore that advice. But if I'm honest, those comments, they've always stuck with me. Whenever I'd take out a new job, I felt like, because my partner and I were a different type of couple, wow, we must really owe this school something. The place slide behind me is there is a place for her. I don't think it would align us of all the room that we have to have better conversations around what it might mean to be a clear educator in the international school community. People tell me all the time though, hey, Patricia, add to this, we've changed. We made a lot of progress. And those same people are always shocked when I tell them, my wife and I have this thought on the street just for holding hands. And we've been in that situation a few times where we're at a job there and we're offered a contract but we're told you'll need to have different housing and you'll have to keep your relationship a secret. I don't have these conversations all that often. To be honest with you, I've worked at six different international schools and I've been asked by colleagues about my experiences of being a peer educator for precisely zero times and I've let it. It's personal. I would ask the saying tomorrow you think about our confidence in it's personal as a call to action, as a reminder of the importance to engage with very personal perspectives. How do we do this? Your teachers, you know all too well, be amazing, awesome, power of a well-crafted question. What you don't know what the right question is, or what if you are worried my question may offend? If you don't know the best questions you ask, then please ask for questions from the best personal problem. That's possible person. Because if we really value diversity, we need to think really about how it is that we make diversity feel valued and I'll tell you from experience that we do that by making time to have difficult conversations. I have felt so long and so hard about conversations that I would love to be having more caution with my colleagues. And so I'll leave this morning with three questions. Maybe you take them back to your campus. Question number one, you might be wondering where can I show up to be a better ally? If you are that teacher who has the highest figure on the outside of your classroom door, where else would you be as an ally? Digital space is really, really better. If you're on Twitter, these two hashtags have incredible amazing resources coming through the wall design. Or if you're that teacher, you never have a student tell a lot of students in front of you, that's so gay and you thought, I really don't know how to handle that. A queer endeavor dot word has honest real advice. Your feet can defeat you different perspectives if you seek them out. The second question that I would love to be asked more regularly by colleagues is why I feel so strongly that you utilize is the better term for other than normalize. Since when, did any of us think that aspiring to just be normal with the best that we can do? I would love to see school campuses having queer culture pump up just a little bit more frequently. If you love playing music in the classroom or you have a school event coming up, please think carefully. Is every artist heterosexual? Is there ever a love song that comes on that tells the narrative of saying sex love? The last question, what can I do to be a better ally? The power of this question is within the frequency that it is asked. Please don't just ask this question because it's a quality game because it's a fight one. But ask it again and again because we show we care by continuing conversations. Swools are not inclusive because they include people who are different. Swools are inclusive because they are willing to take on different types of dialogues and make their decisions to get personal. That would happen. That would have to be space. All that we're even going to have in conversations like these. Today, I hope that you will join me in filling in.