Rightly, you can't disarly walk into a library and pick up their books. Thot you should be able to. It's, there's a little bit of gap between what's available to folks of t academic space and what's available to folks that, like, maybe walked by a barns and oble on their way home from work. And it is really important to me to pull together as much as i could from that history, and, you know, pull from tons and tons of research and different historians and newspapers in articles and interviews, and put im together in a way that made it very clear that everyone else has always been here and has done incredible things. And i hope that people will read my book and then read the bibliography and follow those bread crumbs and find some more of those those important writings, because this is just the beginning. This is kind of intro to of these folks like i one of the people contended to your second question, one of the people that i was so excited to write about, because i thought i knew so much about her. Andhe, it turns out i was wrong. Lik's a woman named lucy parsons, who i knew about her just from my involement like radical peace. She's kind of like an anarchist ar icon. And i'd read an earlier biography of her from the seventies. I'd read her own writings. I thought i had a pretty good grip on who she was. But then a history named jacqueline jones put out a book a couple of years ago called a goddess of anarchy. That was is exhaustively researched biography of lucy parson's life. And ittn s out that the common wisdom about her in her life was pretty wrong aho during her lifetime. And lucy parsons, she was kind of a chameleon. It was kind of, she decided to shapeshift a little bit and hide who she was in order to be more pactful in her work and more easily relatable to the white factory workers she was trying to organize b she presented herself as a mixedi spanish and indigenous maiden from texas. That's as she said she was. And she said she was from there. And she moved to chicago with her husband albert parsons in thele 18 hundreds, and they set up opand started organizing an anarchist community and a labor community. Like she was a dressmaker, and she organized lady women garment workers. And she, she hat like a very interesting overlap when it comes to, like, labor and anarchist politics, revolutionary politics, because at that time, a lot of those folks were the same people dlike that was a very, not asestous, but a very interconnected community, like ana still is now. Right? Like radicals, we've always been herend we've alders, ben getting of to mischief in the labor movement elsewhere. Bucome. Soyes, she was, she an she was a co founder of the industrial works of the worldw like she she had an impact in the labor community, certainly, and in labor history. But lucy parsons was not who she said she was. She was born in virginia, on a plantation. She was a black woman who was born enslaved, who moved out to texas following emancipation. And then she kind of built up her own mythology to protect herself and for other reasons that i don't know what what went through her head. I havent met her, but she was just a fascinating character, and sheb intersected with so many different pieces of so many different movements. But i tried to write aber about her in a way that showed like how important and interestingratical and militant she was, but also kowledge like she was not perfect, like, even outside of her own identity. And, you know, the way she presented herself like she did, she'd made some pretty narly decisions in her life, and you could read more about it, butit, it was a challenge to write about a figure that i have admired for so long, and to kind of address a little bit of the the uglar, messy humanity of a person like that. But i was really excited to include her because i i feel she's very well known in radical circles, but labor people, unless you're like in chicago and have a specific interest in that point in time, you probably don't know that much about lucy parsons, or you probably have a pretty negative of her and the other anarchists. And i was hoping a kind ofno, presented a more balanced view someone who i think is a really important historical figure that's

fascinating.