While change is coming to the academic publishing world, rules regarding deadnames remain rare in another: Few major news groups or newspapers have policies enabling trans writers to change their bylines on published stories.
When Theresa Tanenbaum transitioned in 2019, she changed her name and began a years-long quest to correct the one she was given at birth — her deadname — on dozens of academic papers she published over the years.
For Tanenbaum, an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine who studies the theory and practice of interactive storytelling, there's a lot on the line. These papers — 83 publications across 15 publishers — catalog her work over more than a decade. But when she began asking publishers to correct her name on them, some said yes while others refused or ignored her. In the fight for what she wants, Tanenbaum is, in her own words, willing to make a nuisance of herself.
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