2021 Keynote Speech by Jessica Bootblack

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Thank you for coming today and thank you to Flame for giving me this opportunity. Now down to business…

As a black gender fluid leather bootblack, I have a unique view of the community having been a confidant of peoples’ innermost thoughts. I am an ear to their quiet and softly spoken hopes. I know intimately where peoples’ boots have taken them and where they fantasize their boots will go. Whether is just one night or their dreams for the…