Show Notes Myco (it/its) chats with today's guest fern (they/them) about names! The podcast's name inspiration, personal naming stories and tips, our thoughts on trans name ideas, among other things. Image Description: The words "The naming of a thing" pop forward with purple lettering against a yellow and purple gradient background. Transcript: Transcript doc   Myco (it/its): Hello! Welcome to Liberatory Naysayers! In today's chat, we have someone I love very very much. They are delightful and kind and such a wonderful parent and a badass comrade. My partner Ash! Ash (they/them): Hello! I'm so glad this is audio medium and not video so you can't see how red my face is right now! *laughter* Myco: It's cute! Ash: Haha! Yes! Myco: What pronouns do you use? Ash: I use they/them pronouns! Myco: Sweet. Do you want to tell us about yourself? Ash: I do! Hi I'm Ash! I'm queer, polyamorous. Grew up in the Midwest. Joined the military right out of high school. Oddly enough, the miliary is where I was first radicalized. Or at least the seed was first planted by some anarcho communist who would carry around the communist manifesto everywhere and I was scared of them. That could be an episode for a different day. I am disabled. I was disabled long before covid and further disabled after catching covid. I mask pretty much anywhere and everywhere now. If I'm being honest I stopped for a time a couple years after the pandemic. I was thinking "oh things are changing and getting better" then I learned otherwise from people luckily. \ Myco: Propaganda gets us all.  Ash: It sure does. So I'm really grateful that I follow the people i followed on social media and there were different ideas being put out there about covid. It really made me reconsider what I was doing and how I was living after the pandemic started.  I am a parent to an awesome 5 year old. I'm really passionate about youth liberation. Abolition in all forms. Prison, psychiatric. Pretty much any form of punitive, carceral systems. Not down with that. I am learning more and more all the time about disability justice.  I deliver masks with our city's Mask Bloc. Myco and I do that together. We help take care of one of our communities Love Fridges. Which basically, if your city doesn't have one or you're not familiar, you literally have a fridge outside. There's like a little shelter built over it and community members can come by and put food in it. It's a no questions asked, no barrier to entry, no means testing. If you need food or drink and you come by the fridge and there's stuff there, you take what you can- Myco and Ash at the same time: you leave what you can *laughter*  Ash: Also one of the things I'm really excited about as far as mutual aid and taking care of our neighbors and our community, is that we sized up our car last year just so we could do comrade shit. We love telling people we can do comrade shit now because we have the space. So yeah. That's me. Myco: Love it! That was a great intro! Ash: Thanks! So Myco you mentioned earlier today you wanted to talk about names. Myco: Yeah! We were talking about... names are really important in queer, and especially trans spaces. I know in a lot of communities names are very important. Also thinking about naming this podcast. Thinking about our personal names. Thinking about trans philosophies of names. I thought it would be really fun to talk to you about that! Ash: Awesome. Do you want to start with why you named the podcast the name that you did? Myco: Yeah! I would love that!  Ash: Ok. Myco: When I first met Ash, we exchanged books pretty early on. Like some of our favorite things. I gave Ash a poetry book. Andrea Gibson for anybody curious. Ash gave me We Wont Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy. It was amazing.  Ash: It was kinda our way of flirting wasn't it? Myco: Yes. Ash: Ooo you take my book, I'll take your book! Like getting the star football players letterman jacket in high school. Ew Gross. Myco: Sendin