cool post on "having a black name"
Folks who know me understand what fun it is to have my name, and have it frequently misunderstood, verbally mangled, or with extra consonants added to make it into a more common (though male-identified) name. I thought this blog post was fascinating...
And I liked this bit, too:
And I only got my silly record and book reviews published when I started using a pseudonym. Were they suddenly more readable?
There's a reason why I didn't publish my novels under a pseudonym, but I wonder every single day how my books would have sold if I had gone with my considered psuedo, "Mia Wilder". Hmmmm.
I often think upon my maternal grandparents, Leardine and Lemon. I always thought both of their names were fantastic. Apparently "Leardine" was the name of a Jewish lady that my (unnamed) great-grandmother kept house for down in Louisiana in the earliest decades of the 20th Century. I also thought that (the origin) was fabulous, and apparently Jewish Leardine was an open-minded, generous, protective sweetheart.
Also I am reminded of a great ad-lib by M. Doughty on the BT track "Never Gonna Come Down":
"Charisse - what's up with that - English girls with ghetto names - I LOVE that shit!"
(I am also a fan of the name Charisse.)
Carry on...
And I liked this bit, too:
And I only got my silly record and book reviews published when I started using a pseudonym. Were they suddenly more readable?
There's a reason why I didn't publish my novels under a pseudonym, but I wonder every single day how my books would have sold if I had gone with my considered psuedo, "Mia Wilder". Hmmmm.
I often think upon my maternal grandparents, Leardine and Lemon. I always thought both of their names were fantastic. Apparently "Leardine" was the name of a Jewish lady that my (unnamed) great-grandmother kept house for down in Louisiana in the earliest decades of the 20th Century. I also thought that (the origin) was fabulous, and apparently Jewish Leardine was an open-minded, generous, protective sweetheart.
Also I am reminded of a great ad-lib by M. Doughty on the BT track "Never Gonna Come Down":
"Charisse - what's up with that - English girls with ghetto names - I LOVE that shit!"
(I am also a fan of the name Charisse.)
Carry on...