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.

Well, Kuros, I don't know what to say.

It's Kami here, and on today's podcast, Haley Kioko.

She is actually our most requested guest for the entirety that the podcast has existed,

and I've gone back and forth with her team for a few years.

And we finally had a chance to talk.

Isn't that amazing?

It's amazing.

Now, that I've done this for you.

You could do me a favor.

It's been a while since I asked you to write and review the podcast.

How about that?

It hasn't been a while since I told you about our Patreon, patreon.com slash HakeWeros,

which gets new patrons multiple times a week.

So that's amazing.

The money goes to help Paciera for all the work that she does.

It has been a tight time in terms of ads during the pandemic, and you all have really stepped

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