
So about the name—
I’d finally given myself permission to stop trying to jam the square peg into the circle slot. Ani Difranco has a lyric, “you know they never really owned you / you just carried them around / and one day you put ‘em down and found your hands were free.” I didn’t know how heavy a weight gender had been until I put it down. And in the absence of that weight, joy flooded in.