What’s in a name? A lot, when you choose it yourself!
I decided I liked the name Dev a long time ago. My Hebrew name began with Dev, and Dev felt somewhat masculine, but also familiar. I didn’t think about my middle name at all until someone commented that they liked how I had combined my previous first and middle names, however. That was not intentional! […]
Changes: Name, pronouns, and more
I’ve been contemplating a name change for a while. For a long time, I argued that my name was a nonbinary name because I was nonbinary. And that’s still true—any name can belong to any person of any gender. But I could see when people made the connection. This person must be a woman, because […]
Long-Overdue Update
So I’ve been trying to figure out where to start, and I think the answer is an infodump followed up by posts, because SO much has happened. In the past few months: I changed my name at work and elsewhere, and I’m looking into a legal name change I started using he/him pronouns and identifying […]