Thanks for reminding me to update all my descriptions! I see that I totally forgot to update the bios that I send out to events and conferences Iâm a speaker at. I updated the description on my home page though immediately when I saw your message. Honestly, I was a great fan of the asterisk just a few years back, maybe two or three. It was a symbol that I found to be great for recognizing diversity and being a fan of different searching tactics, regular expressions etc. I immediately associated the asterisk as âanything can come after transâ. Like so -> trans*.However, I started talking to trans people of age who reminded me that the asterisk is not something that speaks to their experience and that it is hard for them to be able to identify with such a âcomputerizedâ way of describing oneself. And this was when I stopped.After that I read a few different blogposts, especially this one and I got to the point where I also stopped having conversations about it.Thanks again for pointing out that it was still present in some of my work. I know that a number of my tumblr posts still use the asterisk with âtransâ (the one about being poly and pan is most probably the culprit here). Iâll be revisiting these later on to see how they hold up. I donât like editing my work retroactively, but putting some explanation in a form of a footnote wouldnât hurt. Thanks again!
