JACK MONROE EXPLAINS TO THEIR SON WHY DEADNAMING IS ESSENTIALLY IN-REAL-LIFE TROLLING
“Mama, why do some people call you by a different name?”
We were on the train, that place where twice a day, most of our most important conversations seem to happen. I sighed. I changed my name by deed poll before Small Boy could talk, so had hoped this was a conversation we wouldn’t have had to tackle for a while. And yet, because of some people’s refusal – and it is refusal – to call me by my legal name, I was having to find answers, and fast.