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Five writers across genres explore the power and problem of naming as an act of craft—how names inform identity, claim space, and carry histories. Panelists will explore nuances of choosing whether and how to name. They confront and complicate the power structures of familial naming, indigenous naming, multilingual naming, queer naming, trans naming, and the empowerment of naming perpetrators of violence. They navigate how naming, as artistic tool and cultural terrain, can resist erasure.