[APPLAUSE]
Bruno, this is OK?
How's everybody doing?
Do we need a small break.
Stand up.
Stretch.
I recently threw out my back.
I'm 43.
So I need these moments myself.
Thank you.
Please take the moment to stretch out.
All right.
It's such a huge honor to be here tonight.
I just want to acknowledge Diana one more time.
We created this anthology during the pandemic,
in a time where we were supposed to be
engaging in our communities.
I had set up appointments to visit detention centers
and advocate for detained juveniles.
And so Diana helped me reach out to these communities.
And my work literally would not be possible without you.
The book that I wrote would not be possible without you,
so thank you.
I also want to acknowledge this moment
and how Black, Native, and Latinx
and Palestinian communities are connected through Mahmoud
Khalil and Free Mahmoud Khalil.
That is where migrants and natives and Palestinians are
being detained together now.
And I need to acknowledge that intersection in order
to launch into my talk tonight, so--
[APPLAUSE]
Which, of course, means we're going to talk about Jon Snow.
[LAUGHTER]
No, I'm not joking.