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The Least Problematic Woman In The World Inspired My Newsletter’s New Name
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- The Nuance Diaries
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- Oct 16, 2025
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Summary
Dylan Mulvaney didn’t change her name when she transitioned — but her one-woman show inspired me to change mine. The name of my newsletter, that is. Dylan briefly discusses nuance at the end of her iconic one-woman show, The Least Problematic Woman in the World. Something about hearing that word, in the context she presented it in felt like a lightbulb moment. I was like, ‘Oh, right, nuance. This very nuanced world we’re living in.” I really can’t tell you how I jumped from that thought to, “I should change the name of my newsletter.” I hadn’t even been thinking about changing the name until I heard Dylan Mulvaney say ‘nuance.’ Just like I never thought about living in San Diego until I visited. (Ironically, where Dylan once lived, too.) But like so many things in my life, the rebrand and rapid recent growth of this newsletter happened slowly and then all at once. Back in June, I sat down to write what I called the “Wild Cozy Free 2025 State of the Union” to reflect on my two years here at Substack, and what ‘wild cozy free’ means to me now. I first claimed my Substack URL on May 8, 2023, and published my welcome post nine days later on May 17th. The name Wild Cozy Free came to me late one night. I had recently found out that a potential book project wasn’t going to happen the way I thought it would. I had this whole collection of non-fiction essays, and nowhere to put them, as a playwright who had formerly only published fictional dramas. I remembered how Glennon Doyle’s writing career started, with her blog, The Momastery. “I’d tell my shiny, happy representative self to be quiet. And I just allowed my wild, original, honest, truth self forward. I started a blog, and it turned out lots of people needed to hear the truth like they needed air. Over time, as I wrote to…