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 Quero's Cammy here coming to you live from a bathroom at my parents' house.

Look, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and I am unbelievably excited to have

gotten to have this next conversation that you're about to hear.

Norman William Machado is a huge deal right now, you know, but just as a human.

But I mean, dang, really crushing it.

And I couldn't believe that she found time in her schedule to talk with me.

And anyway, I hope you enjoy this chat and talk to you soon.

I've been feeling wrong, but I'm still in my toilet.

I know, I know, I know it's careless.

I always have guests introduce themselves.

Would you introduce yourself?

Sure, should I say anything in particular or just my name?

See, that's what's exciting is it's true.

It's true, it's true during adventure.

And you get to say whatever feels relevant or what you'd like to say about yourself today.

Okay, my name is Carmen Maria Machado and I am a writer.

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