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i sure as fuck am lucky that my professor is so good it turns out one of the people im citing in my dissertation has transitioned since he published the book i read and i accidentally deadnamed him in my citation which wouldve been pretty fucking terrible. i looked him up and hes fine with people using his old name but still. now im worried everyone ive cited has turned out to be trans. is everyone trans
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@garfiald This is a kinda tough issue because they don’t include fliers in old books saying “The author’s name is actually this now.”
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@tibius i know and its not like this is an author i work on a lot but its still like. i got very lucky that my prof knew and that this author happens to be fine with both his names
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@garfiald yeah. I guess I am trying to imagine a permanent solution to this sticky problem and I’m not coming up with a good one.
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@garfiald Actually the solution would be for libraries to update copies of books. That’s the solution.
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@sexybenfranklin @tibius i think it used to be common for slips of paper listing printing errata to be added to books after they'd been published
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@garfiald @sexybenfranklin @tibius Alternative way to think about it: lots of authors will publish their books under fictional names
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@mary @garfiald @sexybenfranklin Yup. You find Richard Bachman under K for Stephen King. And the archivist gives you this information. Should be no different for trans authors.