name

It wasn’t the name I would have picked — not originally, at least — but as days turned into weeks, it grew on me.

Names are important because they reflect unique cultures, histories, religions, and lineages. Taking someone’s given name and changing it is one of the many ways that people (namely people of color) are whitewashed. The anglicization of “foreign” names — the practice of taking names and turning them into something English — is a slow and sinister form of identity erasure.

Another day, another Uber scandal—except this time, it might not be the notorious