Molly M. Pearson is a writer, educator, and organizer based in St. Louis for more than twenty years. Her work centers sex, identity, aging, illness, community, and the risks we take to survive and make life worth living. Her writing can be found at The New Territory, Catapult, TheBody, Foglifter, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. She served as a co-curator of Changeling, a local cross-genre queer reading series, and she is an active member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD) collective, an interdisciplinary community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis. She implores us all to listen to our elders.