Talk:Masha Gessen

Pronouns in English wikipedia
After some discussions on a German article in spiegel.de I checked this page to find out what pronouns Gessen prefers. It is stated Gessen uses "they/their" – but the rest of the article nevertheless uses "she". What is the standard with nonbinary persons who prefer to use a nonbinary pronoun? Shouldn’t it be the chosen pronoun to describe Gessen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.202.55.138 (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Photo for infobox
The Wikimedia Commons category c:Category:Masha Gessen at present holds two photos: one from 2011 and the one in the infobox now, from 2015. An objection was raised on the WP Humanities reference desk regarding the subject's "miserable" appearance in the 2015 photo. My solution is to add The earlier photo already appears lower on the page; both are dated. I suggest it's not adequately justifiable to swap the photos having the earlier one in the infobox due to a subjective assessment of "appearance".-- Deborahjay (talk) 15:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Recent edit summaries from an editor using an IP address say that the editor is Gessen's daughter. I reverted the edits but I figure it is worth a discussion. Knope7 (talk) 02:43, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello - Masha Gessen here. I appreciate the reason for removing the changes. However, my daughter was correcting a factual mistake. My legal name, since 1989, is Masha Gessen. The way the article is currently titled is misleading and has caused a fair amount of inconvenience for me. Please retitle it "Masha Gessen." It would be accurate to say that I was born "Maria Alexandrovna," but not more than that. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.1.244.6 (talk) 10:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and changed it because that doesn't seem controversial to me (and because of policy), and I can only find one reliable source that refers to you as Maria Alexandrovna (this one, but only the introduction is not behind a paywall). But it would be really great if you could confirm this outside of Wikipedia because, for what I imagine are obvious reasons, trusting an anonymous person on the internet claiming to be Masha Gessen isn't the best way to go. Two possible ways you can do this are by Twitter or by contacting Wikimedia. You can check out WP:BLPSELF for more info. Cheers, -- irn (talk) 04:38, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Hitched
I don't see this one yet in the awards section:


 * 2018 Hitchens Prize Awarded to Masha Gessen — November 2018

&mdash; MaxEnt 01:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Polish Holocaust complicity
Author responds to criticism and death threats over New Yorker article on Polish Holocaust complicity https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/03/29/author-responds-to-criticism-and-death-threats-over-new-yorker-article-on-polish-holocaust-complicity/  Should this be included in the article? Quiet2 (talk) 05:33, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

To add to article
Should we mention this in the article? In May 2023 Masha Gesse resigned from the PEN America board following the cancellation of a Russian writers' panel at the 2023 PEN World Voices Festival after Ukrainian writers threatened to boycott. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC