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Welcome to How to Queer the Grid , a podcast about resilience, belonging, and redesigning the systems we live in, from the edges in.Learn about how I, an artist, urban planner, and energy efficiency consultant got to America as a child from rural Russia, with no running water, no English, and no rulebook for how to belong. In this episode I give you a window into my early years navigating profound alienation and connection in a new country including humiliating isolation in a middle school classroom and life-changing friendships offered by people across decades.This is the origin story of a perspective forged outside society’s central "grid." This story is about what happens when you don’t fit the blueprint, and how that very position becomes a lens for seeing how systems really work (and fail). Here, “queering the grid” is not an abstract theory. It is a lived practice of learning, adapting, and building resilient connections from the ground up.And, if you haven't heard, the Grid, as in the power grid is in danger and, I know how to rebuild, not from the center, but from the margins.

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