The Politics (and Privilege) Behind “Real Names”
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1 min readJun 24, 2015
This news story about a woman who used pseudonyms to create a Facebook account in order to protect herself from online violence, and then was ‘outed’ via their perfectly legal but aloof “real name” policy really got to me today.
Perhaps it’s because for some reason this week, so many people have been asking — often in rude, dismissive, invalidating ways — what my “real name” is. Well, here’s my answer…
