Very neat article, glad you shared it!
Interesting to think about now, they mention how modern digital cameras are not great at taking photos of interracial couples. I’m sure / hope someone is working on that, or at least maybe that’s a use case for some of the fancy photo post-processing - to take two photos with different exposure levels and somehow combine them to get accurate features from multiple people of various complexions in one photo.
Once you find a style of switch that you like, I’ve gotten some from https://drop.com when they were on sale for a decent price.
I’ve also had success with switches from https://kono.store
I think usually you can find switches usually sold in groups of 10, 35, or 70 depending on where you get them, and the price per switch can vary pretty heavily, anywhere from like 50¢ per switch to a couple dollars per switch.
I would highly recommend sampling a switch style or exact switch if possible before buying, though I have bought switches without doing that (after watching YouTube videos on them) and been mostly happy.
You could checkout keeb.io, I have the Iris and it’s fairly ergonomic, and you can customize the switches you want.
Trying to tent it for even more ergonomic is a little weird, but I think it is doable.
There’s also (not from keeb.io) ergodox keyboards.
Link to the Iris: https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard
Ergodox: https://ergodox-ez.com/
As an example, the author/activist bell hooks’ pen name was requested to be stylized in lower case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bell_hooks
In her case, she wanted people to focus on her writing rather than her name. Often times, even at the start of a sentence, you’ll see news articles lowercase her name.
To your latter point, I think the reason given definitely does influence my feelings on the matter - I’m comfortable giving someone “de-emphasis” when requested out of respect, or referring to someone by their preferred pronouns out of general respect as well. However, I do have lines that feel uncomfortable to cross, that I wouldn’t cross, such as a white person preferring to be called “Master”.