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by untothebreach 4326 days ago
Huh, I have never seen this, thanks!

(OT nitpick: her name is actually 'danah boyd' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_Boyd#Early_life)

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OT nitpick: It's not actually her name, it's the name she prefers for political and aesthetical reasons, and the most civil and polite thing to do is to accommodate that preference. But her actual name is Danah Boyd, just like Snoop Doggs actual name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
from http://www.danah.org/name.html:

     in the summer of 2000, i finally had legal paperwork acknowledging my name as i saw fit: danah michele boyd
Thanks for pointing that out, fixed.