It felt joyful, if also a little precarious, to be up on that table, but what was even more wonderful was stepping back down into a space where I belong, among people who support one another. Extreme Kids, after all, is not just a space to be, it’s a space to belong; the sense of community I felt among the crowd in the Factor’s living room extends into the schools where we work and the places we have created community across our city.