I'm famous!

[ciphergoth]

Fame at last (again) - this time in the Big Issue! trishpiglet, babysimon, gemoon, spikeylady and I are in the Big Issue this week talking about poly. There's a big picture of all of us accompanying the article, and me and spikeylady's picture appears on the contents page, with the caption "Page 14: Boys who love girls who love other boys and girls...".

The article is pretty positive, if somewhat standard fare, and us five in particular come across very positively. Sadly it's not fantastic for accuracy - the only thing I'm quoted as saying is a misquote (what I was actually trying to say was that I generally like it when a partner sleeps with someone new) and they think lilithmagna is a woman! I seem to remember that we were all careful to refer to "Nat" and use a male pronoun throughout, but never mind...

In other news I had a lovely time in Bradford, then spent all day today fiddling with servers in someone else's office in Harrow, miles from civilization. Tomorrow is Day of the Dead day...

Comments

[barakta]

Yeees, the good ole assume 'Nat' is a shortening of Natalie and therefore a female name syndrome. Having lived with someone who uses Nat as a gender neutral name I have found avoiding pronouns entirely results in assumed 'she' and sometimes I have used the male pronoun and I still get people thinking 'Nat' is a 'she'.

I won't even begin to start the rant of 'I am not called Nat' damnit, as it is a common shortening of both my current legal and soon to be legal first name. Thus getting me mixed with the aforementioned Nat.

Gotta love gendered name perception.

Natalya

HAH!

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

No one can figure out the gender of my name, which is great! (And it's not Annie Oakley, that's a joke.)

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

The thing is, we do call Nat 'Lili', and we do refer to him with a female pronoun most of the time. So the fact that we made an effort not to, and still confused the journalist, is quite ammusing really!