Kiku Hughes

Queery with Cameron Esposito

Cameron Esposito

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Comic artist Kiku Hughes sits down with Cameron to discuss how she found her way to becoming a comic artist, writing DISPLACEMENT about her grandmother's incarceration as a Japanese American during WWII, and finding her identity as a queer fourth-generation Japanese American.

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0:00.0	This is a show about individual experience and personal identity.
0:03.9	There may be times when folks use identifying words or phrases that don't feel right to you.
0:08.1	That's part of what we're exploring here.
0:10.0	Please listen with an open heart, and as always, I welcome your polite, engaged feedback,
0:14.1	and I encourage you to continue the conversation in your own life and with your own community.
0:19.3	Welcome to Query.
0:20.3	Hey, Pueros, Cammy here.
0:29.6	Wow.
0:31.1	Today, Kiko Hughes, love this person.
0:33.5	What a sweetheart.
0:35.2	Like, what an absolute sweetheart.
0:36.7	We had a great talk about the Japanese American experience and about Kiko's awesome book,
0:44.2	Displacement, which I fucking love. You should absolutely read it, like, for real.
0:50.8	Also, hey, speaking of things that are for real, when it comes to me in New York,
0:55.6	well, I'm there the August, the August, August 11th, 13th, or maybe you don't live in New York,
1:01.2	and you'd like to see me Nashville on the 14th of August, or maybe you live in Austin.
1:06.0	Well, I'll be there on the 20th, or hey, if you're in Denver,
1:09.6	I'll be there on the 21st, and then we'll be back home in LA for a show at Largo on the 23rd of August.
1:16.4	Big August tour dates coming up, please come see me.
1:19.6	I really need this, you guys.
1:21.3	Okay, cameraNuspeCity.com for tickets, enjoy the episode.
1:25.2	I've been feeling wrong, but I'm still in my toilet.
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