happy birthday to gloria steinem. gloria blurbed, a very early version of the book and at the time the title was called choosing life and it was supposed to be a commentary on the anti abortion rhetoric around and like it's a better title. but but gloria basically said i can't blurb this book because people think i'm endorsing an anti-abortion project. and i said, i can just the title, gloria, that one's really easy so i did. and so gloria's blurb is on the inside cover here and and i'm grateful. i'm grateful for her endorsement, her support and her investment in generations of that have come after her. and i will but i will also add one caveat that second wave white feminists, including gloria, have not always understood this conversation as of their work and, her her blurb a lot to me, not just because i have a great deal of respect for what she has accomplished for of american women. but because i think it represents the fact that we are now ready for a conversation in a way that people weren't necessarily before. w