My work speculates the history a story has traveled. A story is shaped by who tells the story just as much as by who is listening. “Pardon My Language Baby Girl” explores how a story can be altered based on who is in the room to hear it. Often a story changes or different versions of a story are born out of the idea of polite company or being told within a heavily gendered space. It calls to mind being aware of existing as a girl child entering into a male-dominated space and the language altering based on my presence. These branching stories are created with the idea of preventing offense or harm to these interlopers in a space. So you have stories where the language is and characters are altered for a more femme-friendly audience but the misogyny and misogynoir are still in place or amplified in this new telling.