Your firstname doesn’t match your lastname
Sidney, Katy, TX My name is Sidney and my last name is Rodriguez, based on my last name you can assume I am Hispanic. My...
Your last name has two L’s?
Liam Llerena, Los Angeles, CA Growing up, people used to ask me why my last name had two L’s. I myself never understood why nor...
“How does one become a Patel?”
Allison Patel, North Chesterfield, VA My boss’s boss’s boss asked me this question at a big event where I was introduced in a place of...
100% White, 50% Hispanic.
J.P, Tampa, FL Growing up in a largely latin community of Florida, I’ve always struggled to fit in. My mother is of Spanish heritage with...
Yes, I am the Racist Salesman
Sam Smith, Stafford, TX. Ya I figured that would catch people off guard. I’ve been a salesperson now for about 10 years in Houston. Love...
Why does my name perplex you?
Rohini Harvey, Amherst, MA I get so many questions about my last name- wondering how someone who looks like me came to have the last...
Thank you for pointing that out.
Lani Broederlow, Salt Lake City, UT. I am Polynesian. I have been told that my appearance does not reflect my last name. It is of...
Carlos, you really don’t speak Spanish?
Carlos Hernandez, Seagoville, TX I am a Hispanic of Mexican descent with an extremely stereotypical name. My first and last names are both common Latino...
I don’t know Inez’s last name.
Rosemary Brinson Siipola, Kalama, WA. Reflecting on growing up in Duplin County, North Carolina, my Grandma Cora was the matriarch of a large family. Inez...
We lost our culture to survive.
Brianne Hittenberger, USA. It is the end of me, and I of it. My German last name belongs to me, my disabled brother, and my...
Slave trader descendent attempts healing words
Lyn Franklin Hoyt, Nashville, TN. I’m on a search, a journey for words, to figure out how my family heritage can be used for good...
Last name Smith? But you’re Asian.
Trish Broome Baltimore, MD My father is white and my mother is Korean, so I grew up with my father’s last name, Smith. On the...
I am not plain white rice.
Nicole Rice, San Juan Capistrano, CA. I am more than just ‘white’ even though everyone looks at me and says that is all I am....
Husband Said Last Name Wasn’t Mine
Annie, IN. We just got married about 3 months ago. I am Hmong, and he is white. During some sweet talk, the subject of my...
Mother of seven. Am not illiterate.
Nedra Rutherford, Bridgeport, CT. People often think that I am not smart, my children have different fathers and last names. My husband is the father...
