2025-11-24.1_N Dickson on claiming a new name

“To claim a new name is to resist the call to submit to language as a vehicle for carrying (someone else’s) objective meaning, and instead insist on meaning as a relationship, in this case made real by imagining and labouring towards a future self.”

• Nathaniel Dickson, Transgender Marxism, pg. 207, emphasis m(ine)