In episode nine* of We Are All Americans Badly Licked Bear talks about their life in America as a gender-non-conforming, Indigenous, Jew whose friends think of them as a professional code switcher.

We Are All Americans is a podcast series Inspired by the fact that my Russian great-grandfather gained his US citizenship after serving in the US Army and my Lithuanian (or Austrian, or Russian, or Latvian - depending on who is telling the story) great-grandmother entered the US on fake passport. Each episode is a different recorded conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American in the contexts of multiculturalism, immigration, military service, black lives matter, white privilege, and indigeneity.

*Recorded on August 15, 2018 in the Historic South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA.