What’s with the name?

No, Jack Evil is not my legal name.

When making the decision to take my business online, I knew I wanted to use a pseudonym. Every little bit of online privacy is important, and an assumed name is like Identity Protection 101. It’s also really fun to get to choose how people refer to you. Much like the name of my website, Hook for a Handicraft, the name Jack Evil imparts a message about who I am as a person. It’s the surname that does all the heavy lifting. “Jack” is a pretty normal name in and of itself, and while it may beg some questions in its own right, understanding that I am a trans person moving from a stereotypically feminine name to a stereotypically masculine one is pretty much all the context anyone needs to understand that choice. Jack is my chosen name, and I now use it in my everyday life, so I have to imagine it’s the word “evil” that people are really referring to when they pose the question: why did you choose that name?