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.

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 Query, I was gimme here.

Today on the pod, Gabe Montessante, author of Brace for Impact, a memoir about roller

gerby and loving your body and getting some power back in the world.

I love this book and Gabe is a true sweetheart.

So please support Gabe, grab brace for impact.

I bet you'll love it.

And also, thank you so much to everybody who has been joining up.

That's probably not the right thing to say.

As a patron of the show, you can go to patreon.com slash heyqueeros and support the show today.

Honestly, every week when I make this announcement, people sign up.

So I'm going to keep saying it and I really appreciate you.

Okay, enjoy the show.

This will actually be relevant to you.

Gabe, I went swimming over the weekend and nice twice.

And I think it was like an overly chlorinated pool.

Oh yeah, I got a lot of that.

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