My additional name, Anansi, often raises an eyebrow — it’s not exactly a familiar word in our Western world. Maybe that’s part of why I love it! The meaning behind it, and the way it found me, make it even more special. Pre-Anansi time at Afrika Burn, 2019 It was March 2019. I’m usually pretty bad with dates, but because it was my very first Afrika Burn — a wild and beautiful Burning Man–inspired event in the South African desert — this one stuck. I had just arrived in this s