Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• An analysis of #burnout, by The Thinker

• An analysis of #marathons and the post-COVID #running boom, by Brian Rock

• The “feel” of #VideoGame #controllers, by Mariana Amaro (Bratsu)

• The journey of a #NameChange, by Hilde Festerling

https://medium.com/blog/burnout-comes-from-a-gap-between-what-you-do-and-what-you-believe-in-6c3ddab7cabb

Naming a school after someone is not about preserving history, which is permanent and unchangeable, it is a mark of honour.

Of the billions of people who have lived in the world, a tiny tiny fraction have things named after them. It is, when yiu really think of it, a gigantic honour.

But honour is always subjective and current, so if it no longer seems the person is honourable based on newly discovered or understood history then the proper thing to do is remove the honour.

That becomes part of the history which must be preserved and told.

Racist, violent, colonialists do not deserve to be honoured.

#honouring #namechange #colonialism #canada #indigenous #racism
https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/114464087769166637

Change your name if you need to.

Life is about adapting, changing, and evolving. If you’re changing that means you’re alive.

Greetings and good evening! I need help down here in #Georgia. My #trans (adult) child is trying to change their name, and we aren't sure whether the #petition needs to be #notarized or not. The clerk won't answer any questions. The form itself doesn't appear to have space for a notary stamp. Can anyone with #legal knowledge or who has done a #NameChange here let us know? We really don't want to have to re-file after January thank you!! #askFedi #fediHelp #law #lawyer #question

So, for everyone looking into email providers, I just want to shout out posteo.de for something that *every* webservice "should" be able to do, but frequently don't!
Pre-transition I was one of those folx who used a username that was legal name derived for *everything*, and my email account with them was no exception. They let you make up to 3 aliases with every account, so it was easy to give friends and family an alternate address when I came out, but I was not ready for the headache of asking them to let me change my username/primary email as there is no obvious way to do this on their webapp.
I finally got around to emailing their support team asking last night. Today they had activated a "change account name" feature on their webapp, which let me put in a new username, and it automatically kept my *old* email address as an alias so I won't miss anything sent to the wrong place. It was easy and painless. Had to update my client to the new username, and I was good to go!
I understand why that's not something to necessarily let people accidently discover, so I don't mind that I had to email to ask. But if you have a posteo account and need to change your username, it *absolutely can be done*!!

Legal opinion is pretty clear: "in general, children of any age can make their own decision about the change of [...] name."

If anyone tells you otherwise, show them this: https://www.transactual.org.uk/names-cyp-legal

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Eryn
Erinn
Erynn
Aerin
Earin
Aeryn
Aran
Aryn
Ehrynn
Erin
Eireann

Question from #australian #trans with dual citizenship. Does anyone know if it's possible to have two different names on different passports? It is incredibly difficult to change my name in my home country and I was wondering what happens if I change my name on my Australian documents? until I manage to change my name on my home country's document.
#transgender #nsw #lgbtqia #lgbtq #namechange #lgbt

Tempted to change my irl name because I've never really liked it much. TIL, that it's not very easy to do that.
#til #namechange

GPs will often provide a form for you to fill in when you request to change your name, title and/or gender on their records. You do not need a deed poll in order to change your name with them.

Read more at https://www.transactual.org.uk/gp-support

(ID: Teal background with the above text mentioned, form icon with a pencil to the right).

Legal opinion is pretty clear: "in general, children of any age can make their own decision about the change of [...] name."

If anyone tells you otherwise, show them this:
https://transactual.org.uk/names/