text:  On a Saturday night earlier this year at Club Passime in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Alisa Amador took the stage for a hometown show after months of touring around the country and the world. Welcome, everyone. My name is Alisa Amador, or Alisa Amador. It's a quick line, but it tells you a lot about Amador and her outlook on language, identity, and the relationship between the two. She talks about that idea from the stage.