gay greetings and happy 2020! to mark the new decade, i'm trying on a name that better reflects my evolving relationship to gender and my ambiguous position in racial space. in 2019 i published some writing under the name "Sraëka Lillian". i've been trialing it in limited slices of my personal life too, and having sat with it a few months now, i'm ready to debut it for public usage. old names remain viable: you don't have to avoid calling me clayton or any other name we have history under. but in the spirit of the new decade, i invite you to try using Sraëka as your primary address for me instead, online and off.
pronunciation: SRAH-eh-ka. three syllables, emphasis on the first. the two dots on the ë are a diaeresis and indicate that a vowel is pronounced separately from the one before it. i'm happy to help if you ask. in a pinch, Lillian is fine too. it's less a surname than a backup.
pronouns remain the same as ever: inconclusive. none of the popular options are wrong, but none is quite right, either. follow your intuitions! be playful! alternatively, neutral language is a safe bet.
