What to write on contact cards
Feb. 11th, 2012 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gement[FL x-post]
Apparently some people find contact cards relatively simple. You put your name (or your scene name if you're into that), an email address or phone number, and maybe a photo or a handle on the social network you'd most like to be contacted at. Maybe a logo that represents your primary interest.
I am about to go to a Doctor Who con where I'll go by my legal name and want people to contact me via email or LJ. The weekend after that, Seattle Boot Weekend, where I'll be introducing myself as Robin and only want to direct people to FL, unless I like them enough to give them my phone number. I go to events as boy, girl, and other. I don't want 50 different variations of contact card, and I'm easily swamped by contact requests, so I like controlling exactly how people reach me.
I have two full names that are just as validly me, and one handle (gement) which I use everywhere. I'm thinking of making a card that just says:
gement
And adding whatever contact info seems appropriate. @FL, @LJ, @hotmail, phone number, "Robin," "call me about your oxblood boots," whatever. Crisp white cards and my snobby fountain pen ink are a better signifier of my core identity than any other pile of data I could put on the card.
For super bonus more-visually memorable cards, I was thinking of putting 3-6 pictures of my different presentations on the back. My work suit-and-tie look, my super-glam rainbow Space Monkey Mafia femme drag, my srs bizness buzz-cut boy look, and one more femme one that I don't know how I'd distinguish without going into drag territory again. Still thinking about that.
I feel pretentious about this. Like I'm such a special snowflake that I can't have a simple fucking contact card. But I don't feel like I can put down more without separating my life into little boxes with checkmarks, and that itches.
Ponder ponder ponder.
Apparently some people find contact cards relatively simple. You put your name (or your scene name if you're into that), an email address or phone number, and maybe a photo or a handle on the social network you'd most like to be contacted at. Maybe a logo that represents your primary interest.
I am about to go to a Doctor Who con where I'll go by my legal name and want people to contact me via email or LJ. The weekend after that, Seattle Boot Weekend, where I'll be introducing myself as Robin and only want to direct people to FL, unless I like them enough to give them my phone number. I go to events as boy, girl, and other. I don't want 50 different variations of contact card, and I'm easily swamped by contact requests, so I like controlling exactly how people reach me.
I have two full names that are just as validly me, and one handle (gement) which I use everywhere. I'm thinking of making a card that just says:
gement
And adding whatever contact info seems appropriate. @FL, @LJ, @hotmail, phone number, "Robin," "call me about your oxblood boots," whatever. Crisp white cards and my snobby fountain pen ink are a better signifier of my core identity than any other pile of data I could put on the card.
For super bonus more-visually memorable cards, I was thinking of putting 3-6 pictures of my different presentations on the back. My work suit-and-tie look, my super-glam rainbow Space Monkey Mafia femme drag, my srs bizness buzz-cut boy look, and one more femme one that I don't know how I'd distinguish without going into drag territory again. Still thinking about that.
I feel pretentious about this. Like I'm such a special snowflake that I can't have a simple fucking contact card. But I don't feel like I can put down more without separating my life into little boxes with checkmarks, and that itches.
Ponder ponder ponder.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-02-13 12:21 am (UTC)