In this episode Rosanna Alvarez reflects on the dynamics of unwelcomeness of opportunistically welcoming spaces. She offers some affirmations and reminds us of the importance of community, accountability, and survival. Her reflections on the anonymous adage of "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu," also offer some raw and necessary points of reflection on the tensions involved in navigating voice, power, and presence within the context of silencing, tone-policing, and respectability politics.