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Can I offer something else about this term queer, or even, you know, to make sure for this webinar, I do think that queer also has this feeling of being transgressive, right, and some, that may make some people uncomfortable, and so I invite folks who are not afraid to enter into just uncomfortableness, right, you know, in their practice, and trying to figure out what is next, and I think sometimes we can be so comfortable with being comfortable in that we know that our practice isn’t working the way that, you know, we want it to, or we know that our own spiritual life is not working the way that we want to, but in order to get to the next phase, or the next experience, there has to be some kind of transgression around what's normalized for us, and so I hope that also happens in this webinar, even with the term queer, that there will be a pushing against, right, of what’s normalized and what we’re comfortable with, and so that we hold that space together as a community when we are uncomfortable, and so we talked about how people who identify as straight can also identify as queer, but just because someone is LGBTQIA doesn’t mean they’re necessarily queer if they’re not comfortable with moving beyond binaries, or they’re not comfortable with being transgressive, like, you know, in the most holy way possible, right, and so I just want to offer that too, that, you know, spirituality is about, you know, oneness with the divine, with ourselves, and with other folks, but there’s also some uncomfortableness that comes with that, and we, it helps us if we are open to experiencing that and kind of moving through that. 1