30 December 2023 - The Labels We Choose for Ourselves
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Show Notes
In this episode of the show, I speak with my very good friend Shannara Quissell, an amazing attorney and Executive Director of the Colorado Name Change Project. Shannara and I discuss the important things in life: our right to define ourselves, our obligation to trust each other, and the beauty of the brocket for storing documents.
REFERENCES:
Connect with Shannara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannara-quissell-25072387/
The first of name change blogs: https://www.zalesskylaw.com/blog/name-changes
Colorado LGBTQ Bar Association: https://www.clba.net
Colorado Name Change Project: https://www.namechangeproject.org/
Dana Zzyym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Zzyym
Gender Identity Today: https://genderidentitytoday.com/
- (00:00) - Show opening
- (00:36) - Introducing Shannara Quissell
- (03:43) - A desire to make a difference
- (07:18) - Law as penalty, not support
- (09:17) - Finding Colorado Name Change Project
- (12:42) - Names as identity, not gender
- (17:46) - Name change is even hard for attorneys
- (21:49) - For the love of stamping
- (23:49) - States get to make names change as hard as they choose
- (27:23) - Names are only about money
- (31:29) - Names used to be only social constructs
- (34:00) - Gender marker is less than social construct in Colorado
- (37:56) - Jude's Law
- (42:16) - Change your entire view of identity
- (49:12) - Gender change for intersex people
- (54:41) - Trust could go a little further
- (56:43) - The Episode's Misty-Eyed Moment
- (01:01:57) - Show closing