jdick: “Hi, my name is jdick.”

Random Man: “J dig?”

“No, jdick. you know like dick.”

“Oh. I don’t think I can call you that.”

“Oh no don’t worry there is no sexual connotation- my last name is dickerson. Since jessica is such a common name it’s easier to remember jdick- you know like j-lo.”

“oh. Well I think I’ll just stick with calling you J.”

yeah, people call me jdick. In case you were wondering, I got the nickname from a fellow grocery store co-worker in 2001. At the local grocery store I worked at, we used a computerized credit system to purchase food and we used our signatures to verify our purchases. Well it used to take me forever to sign jessica dickerson and on the day I was sporting fresh j-lo braids (ha), my co-worker got fed up and she suggested that I start signing my name as jdick since I had j-lo braids. And she wanted me to start telling people to call me jdick since I had no other nickname prior to that one. Well it worked. I began to tell my co-workers and my friends in high school to start calling me jdick and they did. People love to call me jdick. It gives them an excuse to yell out ‘dick!’ However, some people don’t like to call me jdick. People like heterosexual men who are uncomfortable with their sexuality. For some reason they refuse to use the d-word to refer to me . “Oh no I can’t call a lady a ‘dick’ ” Well I am here to tell you that yes you can call me jdick and it should make no difference as to whether or not you refer to me as genitalia. All I’m saying is lets get over this whole gender binary thing.  jdick is not to be taken sexually. It is the combination of my two names. It is my nickname. Werd.

Holler.