2021-08-07 16:22:05 +00:00
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title: "Xe"
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date: 2021-08-07
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2022-01-10 23:09:31 +00:00
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EDIT(2022-01-10):
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If you are a journalist and using this article as evidence for not calling me
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by the name I am asking you to, please reconsider your actions and strongly
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consider the idea that I am the expert and only person that can create true
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statements about what my name is and how I want my identity to be presented
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professionally. Also don't [compare it to Blackwater IN ANY
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WAY](https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/1479197000667181061). See [this
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article](/blog/broken-database-schemas-2022-01-10) for more information.
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2021-08-07 16:22:05 +00:00
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## Or: Identity is Complicated
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You might have noticed that I have changed my listed name on this website to Xe.
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I should probably have done this a while ago. I have been starting to go by Xe
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in a more professional way and I am continuing this experiment with this blog.
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"Christine" has always been a bit of a placeholder name (albeit one that
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"stuck") that I have used as a legal name because a bunch of things and legal
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processes expect me to have one. Something something [Falsehoods Programmers
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Believe About
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Names](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/)
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something something.
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As for how this is pronounced, here are some attempts to explain how to
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pronounce it in text:
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- The way that Americans say the 26th letter of the English (2021) Alphabet "z"
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- zee (a spelling that should force you to say it correctly using modern english
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orthography)
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- /zi/ in the [International Phonetic
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Alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet)
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I don't expect you to migrate over to calling me this immediately. If anything I
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have a weak preference for this name. If you are used to calling me "Christine"
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or something else, please feel free to do so.
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Incidentally, this also means I have a mythical level of [neopronoun/handle
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synergy](http://pronoun.is/xe/xer/xer/xers/xerself) that few others can match. I
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also don't expect you to use these neopronouns for me (though it would be cool
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if you did).
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Let's see where this experiment goes.
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