A Change of Title / New Query Letter, Too

[ahunter3]

I've changed the title of my book.

Well, the portion after the colon-is that more properly referred to as its subtitle?

OLD: The Story of Q: A GenderQueer Tale
NEW: The Story of Q: From a Queerly Different Closet
To explain why, I am going to have to drop back and explain why the original title. As I said in my introductory post on this

Comments

[ahunter3]

First off, to make it unanimous, I'm not thrilled with the new title EITHER! Rather than respond to each person's individual comment on the title change, I'm going to respond to my own posting as a way to respond in a collective way to the collective opinion that it's not a very good book title.

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There are two recurrent and interrelated comments or lines of thought that have cropped up quite often over the years in which I've been trying to do this:

• What is it that you hope to accomplish? What's your goal, your ideal outcome, if your efforts were to succeed?

• Why do we need to identify and "have liberation" for this or that specified out-group? Shouldn't we just have human liberation, embrace the ideal of equality for absolutely everybody and leave it at that? I mean, by identifying yourself or your group as ThesePeople™, you're adding more energy into the old tired labels that labeled you as ThesePeople™ to begin with; if you don't wish to be treated differently, that seems kind of counterproductive.

nickykaa's piece is one such exposition.

I think I am going to write about this theme next. It's a subject worthy of its own journal post.