Awkwardness, and negotiating spaces

It turns out I have too much to say, more than I'll write here, on negotiating spaces, and how that has become a bigger deal for me, and how much I empathize with people more on the margins than myself now, the constant choices of different alienations.

But thoughts that have been coming back into my head since Saturday are: first, do you feel awkward in a space where people don't look like you, where you stick out somehow? What if you feel out of place but not threatened? What if you feel out of place but want to be friendly? How do you deal with that?

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