If you know me, you know I’ve never taken a straight path. I think big, move fast, and sometimes stir things up but always with intention. I challenge what doesn’t make sense. I move from instinct, insight, and lived experience not convention.

 

I will always stand with those who choose to live differently. The ones who don’t fit the mold. The ones who speak in their own voice, not the one they were told to use.

 

I defend the misfits, the misunderstood, the underestimated  because I’ve been one. I know what it feels like to be dismissed, mislabeled, or told you’re too much, too intense, too complicated or not enough. I also know what it takes to keep going anyway.

 

Power doesn’t always wear a uniform. Sometimes it shows up as expectation, silence, or the need to explain yourself to people who’ve already decided who you are.

 

To label someone is to flatten them. To reduce them. To name their difference as a flaw instead of seeing it for what it is a form of brilliance the world just hasn’t learned how to understand yet.

 

I won’t sit by quietly while people with heart, insight, and courage are told to shrink.

Not now. Not ever.

- Bell