In this episode of the show, I speak with my very good friend Shannara Quissell, an amazing attorney and Executive Director of the Colorado Name Change Project.  Shannara and I discuss the important things in life: our right to define ourselves, our obligation to trust each other, and the beauty of the brocket for storing documents.REFERENCES:Connect with Shannara on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannara-quissell-25072387/The first of name change blogs:  https://www.zalesskylaw.com/blog/name-changesColorado LGBTQ Bar Association:  https://www.clba.netColorado Name Change Project:  https://www.namechangeproject.org/Dana Zzyym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_ZzyymGender Identity Today:  https://genderidentitytoday.com/(00:00) - Show opening

(00:36) - Introducing Shannara Quissell

(03:43) - A desire to make a difference

(07:18) - Law as penalty, not support

(09:17) - Finding Colorado Name Change Project

(12:42) - Names as identity, not gender

(17:46) - Name change is even hard for attorneys

(21:49) - For the love of stamping

(23:49) - States get to make names change as hard as they choose

(27:23) - Names are only about money

(31:29) - Names used to be only social constructs

(34:00) - Gender marker is less than social construct in Colorado

(37:56) - Jude's Law

(42:16) - Change your entire view of identity

(49:12) - Gender change for intersex people

(54:41) - Trust could go a little further

(56:43) - The Episode's Misty-Eyed Moment

(01:01:57) - Show closing


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