Show Notes fern (they/them) and Myco (it/its) get a little more personal today about discovering their plurality, coming out to others as plural, and imagining plurality in a more liberated world.   Image Description: The words "Plural Liberation Part 2" pop forward from the background in a dusty purple color. The background has a large glowing blue ampersand taking up the majority of the space, with a dreamy purple gradient surrounding it.  Transcript: Transcript doc Fern (they/them): Hello and welcome to another episode of Liberatory Naysayers!   Myco (it/its): Hi!    F: Hi!   M: I’m eager.   F: You are! We are very excited and anxious, just like part one, about today’s episode. We are going to be continuing our conversation about plurality. Today we plan to get a little more personal and talk more about our personal experiences with plurality.    M: Yeah, the last episode was more like a wide view, introducing what plurality is. These big concept ideas and now we’re gonna zoom in to what it means for our day to day lives.    F: Before we started recording for today’s episode we were talking about how this episode still ties in with our theme of liberatory naysaying. I want to know if you wanted to talk a little bit about that for a second before we kinda get more into the meat of today's conversation.    M: When it comes to plurality there is a lot of destigma work that needs to be done. I think a lot about the need to normalize plural experiences and mad experiences in general. I think about something that fern and I have talked about, which is radical honesty as a practice that frees us all. I think a lot about sanism, which I know we will come back to and talk about in a little bit.    All of this is so important to me more personally, to zoom in, because I have had a lot of really hard experiences as well. Being a mad person, being a plural person out in the world navigating relationships with other people and other peoples bigotries. Internalized oppression experiences even.    Is that a good?   F: Yeah, it is. You wanted to start with something you had written in the past, right?   M: Yeah, I did.    F: Cool, I’d love if you’d read that! Actually real quick before we do that, we should have done our intros. This is fern, they/them pronouns.   M: Myco, it/its pronouns. We were too excited to start.   F: We kinda just skimmed right through that one didn’t we? Would you like to read what you wrote?   M: My poem.   F: Do you remember when you wrote this?   M: I wrote this last year. It was… let’s see. In may of last year. That was around when I met you I think. I think it was a little before?   F: Before we met.   M: Yeah. So this poem is kinda like thinking about my name and how you name things. Which ties back into…   F: Our fist episode.   M: Yeah, it does! So it’s called Missing The Trees For The Forest.   Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I am chimera of many names Galaxies and multitudes Contained in flesh  Blending one into the next It's easy to miss the trees for the forest Don't let that fool you   Myco the word for this creature Symbol of intent  Path forward through the fog Tracking the knowing   We have lived many lives Nothing here is static Fixed, unchanging Maybe we flow a little  Less restrained than most Why must we contain ourselves For anyone's comfort?   I am merely the writer Simply the one breathing life  into letters and letting them bloom   Graceful Seelie bard Fey creature Story singer Sorting the fragmented pieces Spinning them into sense and meaning    Our first name  Carefully crafted  Meaning measured  A gift and a wish For the healing tree This sapling would grow to be   How do you name a forest? How do you begin such a thing?   Consider the roots What connects us all   Fungi thrive beneath the earth  Vast networks of mutual aid Allowing the forest to connect Communicate, collaborate   A name is only a symbol Don't mistake it for self   F: I