This is Episode 135, and our guest is Kyla Jenee Lacey. Kyla is a writer, performer, and visual artist who was born in the Midwest and raised in Central Florida. She has been written about and featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and more. Her poetry has been viewed over 50 million times on various platforms. Her Twitter account and its ever-changing clever names is a must follow. She is brilliant, hilarious, kind to animals, and an overall bad ass. This is a far-reaching conversation that touches on race, gender, performance, history, and so much more. The poem you are hearing in this episode is "Codeswitch" from Kyla Jenee Lacey's album The End of An Error.
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