In 2015, I was knighted in the Jedi Federation. The year leading up to that, I had started a lot of hard conversations in the Jedi community about sexism, about homophobia and transphobia, and about racism. I’d been trying to call folks in, to encourage them to think about the…
When I first conceived what it was to be a Jedi, I included a martial element to what I thought the path should entail. Some of this was part of my background before setting forth to become a Jedi. I was a black belt martial artist and instructor. Before that,…