This is a show about individual experience and personal identity.

There may be times when folks use identifying words or phrases that don't feel right to you.

That's part of what we're exploring here.

Please listen with an open heart, and as always, I welcome your polite, engaged feedback,

and I encourage you to continue the conversation in your own life and with your own community.

Welcome to Query.

Hey QueryRos, Kami here, coming to you from outside at Beautiful Griffith Observatory here in Los Angeles.

I wanted to wish you all a happy holiday season.

I'm going to be taking a couple weeks off upcoming to enjoy myself, live my life,

and play some best of the year episodes before we ride on into 2020.

But today's episode is brand new. It is a chat with writer and all around business person, Amy Spalding.

You'll hear more in a moment. I really loved this chat, and I hope that y'all continue to join me in the new year.

Will you introduce yourself? I always have guests introduce themselves.

Yes, I'm Amy Spalding. I am a writer, performer, activist.

Yes, I'm saying activist.

I've got several of the pins that you're wearing, which ones. I can't wait to hear.

The Sanjoon Paro one. Great one.

And then I also have the one that's the six feet under the purse.

And then I also have...

I've also got the... I think I've also got the mixed emotions.

Anyway, this is just the part of the podcast where I point at things you're wearing.

I like having a visual thing on an audio show.

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