Her Campus at UPR
April 9th: Name Game, Name Change
April 9 is National Name Yourself Day, where people try a new name. Discover this national day, its history, and importance to individualism.
Her Campus at Carleton
What’s In A Name? – Apparently A Lot.
From the day we are born, our name is our identifier, it’s the thing we write on all our documents, the thing we respond to, and typically the first...
Her Campus at Kenyon
What’s in a Name?
Making the switch from a nickname to a full name. As someone who actively sought to keep my full name under wraps for the first eighteen or so years...
Her Campus at Maryland
A Conversation About Identity from a Part-Czech Girl
Thinking deeply about my identity while reflecting on serious conflict in Ukraine. As my fellow journalism students may know, the Twitter news feed is quintessential to my browser. I...
Her Campus at Washington
Why I started going by the Spanish (and correct) pronunciation of my name
Over the course of my life, I have been called so many different things. At school I was marina (muh-ree-nuh) but at home I was anything from multiple family...
Her Campus at U Mass Amherst
Yes, It Really Does Matter When You Mess Up My Name
My name, Luciette Daignault, is definitely not the most common name to ever exist. I’m fully aware of this and have been fully aware of this ever since I...
Her Campus at Queen's U
The Struggle of an Uncommon Name
I wish people would stop calling me someone else’s name.
Her Campus at Bentley
The Life of Sharing a Name With Amazon’s Virtual Assistant (Alexa)
November 6th, 2014 - a date that to many means absolutely nothing. To me, this is the day that my life changed forever. This is the day...