was for a minute. I did, like, research. So my, that's my, like, my main baby is evidence for practice, like social work research, and then I did bio stats for a little bit, and then now I have the mental health and substance use policy, so still mostly, but I'm like, again, like, how we saw, like, talked at the beginning, like, This is who I am. Like, yeah, I cannot, like, just divorce myself from the content and be like, and this is how we do research, you know. Like, I'm like, That's my professor. Voice, like, no. I'm just like, yeah. Like, this is how I teach, too. I'm just like, first of all, colonialism ruined everything, and we're gonna talk about it, right? Yeah. And so, like, it's in every class. Like, this is, this is who I am, 100% of the time, like, I don't have a professor me or whatever. Like, you're gonna get all of this, like, Southern Cheyenne from Arkansas, you know? Yeah, absolutely, this is me, and it's, I think that's maybe because I don't have a professor voice, right? Like, I often, like, read course evaluations. And I'm like, Would y'all say this if I was like, an older white dude, like, if I was, like, my same age, but if I was a white woman, like, I think I would be that, like, cool white woman, you know? Like, you'll be like, Oh, she's hip, you know, yeah. But, like, as an indigenous person, they're like, she's like, it's not, it does like the the it works for some people, but I think I really am like, not what people think a professor looks like or talks like, or how they envision learning experiences. And so whenever we get to, you know, challenging, challenging white supremacy, challenging colonialism, all of these things that are also baked into our profession, right? Which is another part of social work. So why? Because I'm like, like, we're all brought up in the system, so we all need to decolonize, because, literally, we're only limited to the tools that were provided, right? Yeah. So, yeah. So like, I have decolonial like, I decolonize the whole evidence for practice class, and we start with like, worldviews and ways of knowing. So I'm like, Y'all are not ready to ask a research question. Y'all need to step back and be like, Who the heck am I right? Like, how do I even see the world? What is my positionality, right? Or, like, the mental health and substance use class used to be all about like, history, and they're like, like, it was just from yesteryear. And then there was one week on like, controversies, and that's where harm reduction was. And I'm like, controversies, like, what? Like, yeah, so I read it that whole class, right, centered harm reduction. I'm like, Okay, now let's look at the actual history of like, community care, and then we can get to policy, and then we can see, like, where our profession actually is right. And so now I have taught the diversity one on one class of like, power, privilege and oppression, and then this is the class that I'm teaching now. Is the like, it's an elective, like it's a voluntary elective. They're not subject to this, you know? Yeah. But it's meant to be like, the next class after power, privilege and oppression, about disrupting your privilege, and everything about it, I think, is so different than what we have built into this sort of, like, academic expectation of, like, yes, there are readings, but we're going to process them together. And, like, there are weekly reflections, but it's not like I read this and they summarize this and have a bunch of citations, like, that's not what we're asking for. Like, it's really meant to be, like, I am deeply in this journey with you, and like, I'm gonna meet you where you're at and give you, like, feedback, ask you questions, and have you maybe come back with even more questions, right? And that's like, where the learning happens. Like, you're supposed to wrestle with these ideas, and that's antithetical to everything that we've done so far in the academy, right? Like we're supposed to produce and perform and have nice, neat, crisp answers, and it's like, I'm asking you to dwell with the questions and sit in that uncomfortability and the backlash.