Google Plus Name Appeal # 5 for Ms. Naughty
Dear Google Plus
I have set up this page in an attempt to get you to recognise my pseudonym Ms. Naughty at Google Plus. I have set up a new profile here using "Missy Naughton" with the intention of getting you to change that name to Ms. Naughty, the name by which I am known both offline and online.
This is my fifth attempt to have you recognize my name. Unfortunately the appeal form you provide does not offer many opportunities to provide proof of the acceptance of a name so I am making this page in the hope that you'll read it and see all the supporting evidence and links.
It took you 14 days to consider the last appeal but you eventually rejected me without any further information as to why. I asked on the forums and got no answer. There are no other support options for Google Plus. So I'm submitting yet another appeal.
I have 20 separate examples of pseudonym use listed on this page.
I am an erotic filmmaker, writer and webmistress. "Ms. Naughty" is the name I've used online since 2004, although I've also used the (now retired) pseudonym of Louise Lush†. Ms. Naughty is the name by which I'm known by my online friends and colleagues. They would not know me by my legal name.
Because I make, deal with and write about adult material, it is necessary to protect my real name for legal and safety purposes.
I am seeking to create a Google Plus profile specifically so I can make use of Google's new "authorship" algorithm in search. Given that Google wants people to put their names and faces on what they write - and is giving priority to that in search - it feels necessary that I now participate in Google+. I need any articles I write that appear in search to appear as "Ms. Naughty" and not my real name.
Here is my list of evidence that proves I have been known online as Ms. Naughty for a long time. It also proves that I am known by this name offline, in filmmaking, feminist and academic circles.
Some of these links may be considered NSFW. I will mark those with bold.
NEW: I'm mentioned as a source in Emily Dubberley's book Garden of Desires published Sept 12, 2013. The book uses my pseudonym Ms. Naughty. Here is an image of pages from the book.
NEW: An article on Alternet about porn and women published Sept 12, 2013, features a quote from me, under my pseudonym Ms. Naughty
* Major women's site MamaMia.com.au published an article by me on 28 July 2013 using my pseudonym Ms. Naughty.
* I have been blogging since 2004 using Ms. Naughty as my pseudonym. Here's the first entry. My blog currently has 219 subscribers on Feedly.
* I currently have 3300 followers on my Ms Naughty Twitter account. I have been on Twitter as Ms. Naughty since April 2007.
* I have had erotic fiction published under the name Ms. Naughty, most notably in Best Women's Erotica 2009, edited by Violet Blue. Here is an image of the table of contents. You can also see the table of contents online at Amazon here.
* I have a chapter in The Feminist Porn Book, edited by Tristan Taormino et al, using my pseudonym. Here is an image of the table of contents. You can also see the table of contents online at Amazon here. The official list of contributors on The Feminist Porn Book website gives my bio and uses my pseudonym.
* I gave a presentation at the April 2013 Feminist Porn Conference in Toronto using my pseudonym. This was a conference inspired by the book. It featured presntations by academics, producers and performers and aimed to stimulate critical discussion of pornography. The list of presenters uses my pseudonym. Here is an image of several pages from the conference booklet, using my pseudonym. And here is a video of the presentation I gave.
* My films and websites are discussed in Anne Sabo's book After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography and Why It Really Matters and Anne uses my pseudonym throughout the book when referring to me. Here is a page from the book where she discusses my work. Anne also discusses my work on her blog, New Porn by Women, here.
* I won an Honorable Mention award at the Feminist Porn Awards in 2013 under the name Ms. Naughty. Here is an image of the award.
* My films have screened at Cinekink NY, The Berlin Porn Film Festival and GoodVibes Quickies under the name Ms. Naughty. I have two films screening at Berlin PFF in October under my pseudonym.
* Several of my films appear on the Dutch cable TV channel Dusk. Here's their page on my film The Thought Of Her. Here is an interview I gave to Dusk in Toronto. Here is the page discussing the latest DuskPanel rating that has my film Connections appearing at number 3.
* I have been a volunteer at AllExperts.com since 2007 using the name Ms. Naughty. I answer questions about women's erotica.
* In 2011 I judged an erotic fiction competition in Filament Magazine using my pseudonym. Here's an image of the page in the magazine.
* I wrote several reviews of adult films at TokiiLab, using my pseudonym Ms. Naughty. Only one remains on that site.
* In September 2013 I was part of the Australian Porn: A New Fronteir panel at Pleasure Forum, a public panel discussing women's erotica and sexual content in Melbourne, appearing as Ms. Naughty
* In November I will be appearing at the Perv Queerotic Film and Video Festival in Sydney as Ms. Naughty
* I am known as MsNaughty Louise Lush on Facebook.
* I have a profile at Atheist Nexus as Ms. Naughty, though I haven't been involved in that community for a while.
* I've been a member of Greenguy's webmaster board since 2003 and my username there is MsNaughty
* This 2012 Cosmopolitan article recommended my site MsNaughty.com. My other site Bright Desire has also been recommended in Cosmopolitan here and here and I am known as Ms. Naughty on that site.
I would very much appreciate it if your review staff could take all of this into account. I have included links and images on my new Google Plus Profile if that helps. I think it proves beyond a doubt that my pseudonym has been recognized across multiple platforms by plenty of people, including academia and that this constitutes a "meaningful following".
- Ms. Naughty, 15 October 2013
† A note on Louise Lush
In 2009 after I took up filmmaking I decided that Ms. Naughty wasn't the best option as a pseudonym and that "Louise Lush" would be better, especially when it came to filmmaking. It sounded more "normal". Unfortunately changing pseudonyms mid-stream caused more trouble that it was worth and I was having trouble introducing myself at festivals and events because I needed to say both names. It turned out that more people knew me as Ms. Naughty and I realized I had to return to my original name, despite the difficulty that it creates on sites like Vimeo, Facebook and now, unfortunately, Google Plus. It's a little ironic that Google Plus is denying my pseudonym saying that it has to be the name that everyone knows me by. The fact is, I'm using Ms. Naughty BECAUSE that's my best known name. I would really appreciate it if you could acknowledge that.
For the record, here are some instances where I was referred to as Louise Lush in my filmmaking and writing career:
* The Petra Joy Award 2009 for best first-time filmmaker.
* Feminist porn faces hardcore critics - Sydney Morning Herald, 6th May 2011
* PorNo? PorYes! - Schnitt (German film magazine), October 2011 (English translation here)
* Tweetup - story in Best Women's Erotica 2012, edited by Violet Blue. (This story was originally going to be under the name "Ms. Naughty" but I asked Violet to change it at the last minute. Suffice to say, I regret that now.)
* The Berlin Porn Film Festival 2011, Sexy International Film Festival 2009, Melbourne and Paris
* Feminist porn award nominations 2012, 2011, 2009
* Here's the blog post where I talk about retiring the Louise Lush pseudonym
I give these examples basically to prove an ongoing online and offline presence in my fields of expertise. Again, let me point out that pseudonyms are standard and necessary for safety in the fields in which I work.
I should also point out that I often experience discrimination because of my involvement in pornography. However I do not believe that this discrimination is justified. Erotica is a genre like any other and I have spent the last 13 years creating it, researching it, writing about it and doing my best to make it more inclusive, ethical and feminist.
I'll say here I have no intention of using Google Plus to promote my porn sites. I am only interested in the "authorship" aspect because Google search has made it somewhat compulsory in the latest algorithm changes.
Update March 2014
Google rejected the 5th appeal in October 2013. After wasting so much of my time chasing after this, I have decided to give up on this for the moment. I changed the "Missy Naughton" Google Plus page name to "Louise Lush". Despite that being just as much of a pseudonym, Google Plus let me have it. Meanwhile, Facebook admins made me take the "Ms Naughty" out of my name there so I'm just "Louise Lush" on FB as well.
Despite my best efforts to retire "Louise Lush" it looks like I'm stuck with it, simply because these social media bastards can't grasp the concept of an unusual but well recognized pseudonym.