‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names - The Reclaim Her Name project, marking 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction, will introduce titles including Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evanshttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/12/george-eliot-joins-24-female-authors-making-debuts-under-their-real-names …
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I mean hell I know a (butch, cis) lesbian who’s viscerally uncomfortable with her birth name but hasn’t found another she’s committed to long-term and—even also knowing “literally don’t have an option other than the one she doesn’t like”—that makes using it feel vicariously bad
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Because it turns out not having an alternative to use yet doesn’t mean I’m not forcing her to engage with/“as” a name I know she doesn’t want or feel okay interacting with, and that’s an intrinsically hostile act
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