Old thoughts on identity online, transition, hacking yourself
As a wee thing I always kind of looked down on people who integrated their legal name as part of their alias, or used their meatspace pics as their avatar.
Like surely you can be more imaginative and expressive than using your RL data, which you don't entirely control, to express yourself?
Then I realized for people who actually take control of their identity, whether it be via name changes, hrt, style, etc, that stuff IS the expressive part of them.
You don't have to just accept what you're dealt. You can change it. Then you don't have to build an "online persona" that matches who you are better than your physical facade.
Or at least, I believe that should be a global right. It isn't right now for a lot of reasons, but some can, and do.
Like surely you can be more imaginative and expressive than using your RL data, which you don't entirely control, to express yourself?
Then I realized for people who actually take control of their identity, whether it be via name changes, hrt, style, etc, that stuff IS the expressive part of them.
You don't have to just accept what you're dealt. You can change it. Then you don't have to build an "online persona" that matches who you are better than your physical facade.
Or at least, I believe that should be a global right. It isn't right now for a lot of reasons, but some can, and do.
re: Old thoughts on identity online, transition, hacking yourself
@trysdyn And now you know exactly why I've recently incorporated my soon-to-be-legal first name into my alias. 💙
