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[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

Thanksgiving/Angstgiving dinner with the labeled/unlabled crowd. Fun. Large amounts of ethical food. Yams. Wine. More yams. Glad I went. Glad I made tom yim stew.

A little awkward too, partially due to the whole "going to parties with a lot of people I've not met" thing, as I feel on the older end of the bell curve and think I remember being the young one at these things. This comes with turning twenty-six I'm told. That and being in a space where I'm challenging myself to be out. Now that's awkward. If I'm gonna do this transgender thing, I think that an androgynous name would be an asset. "Amy" causes too much cognitive dissonance as is, and I can't introduce myself as such in all spaces.

I'd thought it appropriate for one to take a new name at some point in one's early adulthood, and had been considering doing so anyway. I found that this site helps.

Cassidy; Darwin; Fox; Garren; Greer; Lichen; October; Providence; Sasha; Unity.

Comments

[medousa.livejournal.com]

I like Sasha.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

In my usual habit of hunting down and brooding over potential flaws, I'm trying to infer if Sasha would get me lots of questions about my "Slavic ancestry." (Soviet Scotland?). Then again, my Mom liked the name "Sasha."

The meaning, "one who defends or helps mankind," is appropriate.

Sasha Fox?
Sasha McNair? (My Mom's side of the family is named McNair, an they are my extended kin network)

Not bad.

[medousa.livejournal.com]

I don't think people dwell too much over the national origins of names in our part of the world. And in particular when the people of that culture are of similar skin-tone to the nameholder's own origins. There are too many expatriot Chinese who have named themselves with antiquated British names to be shocked by a Scottish-Canadian Sasha.

I've liked that name for a long time, and I think you would do well by it were you to choose it.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. I like Sasha as well; it fits.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

Looking back on my journal from the future, I can say that I get asked about three times a month about what "Sasha" implies about my ancestry.

[medousa.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.