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, Gros Cammy here.

Today's episode is a re-release of an episode with Leo Shang.

You might know Leo from the regionally popular television show The Elwart, Generation Q.

JK, JK, obviously.

That show is a hero and so is Leo.

I've been feeling wrong, 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.

My name is Leo Shang.

I am an actor and engage in activism, and I use he-him pronouns for anyone who might not know.

Leo, that is even just you saying that you're an actor and engage in activism.

I feel like that is such a stark shift from a couple of years ago.

I don't know exactly how old you are, so maybe, I don't know where you fall on this continuum.

But let's say, 2015, during the justified unrest in Ferguson, it felt like a lot of

people were hesitant to use a phrase like activist if they were an actor.

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