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What’s In A Name?

what’s in a name? Dec. 10, 2021

Sweden Wants to Be More Than Your Toilet BrushA tourism campaign aims to reclaim the names of national landmarks from Ikea.

By Bindu Bansinath
what’s in a name? Dec. 2, 2016

Spain Is Renaming Its Streets After Influential WomenThe country will change the names of streets dedicated to Francisco Franco’s rule.

By Leah Rodriguez
election 2016 Oct. 26, 2016

I Finally Love Being a HillaryOur next president might share my moderately common female name, and that’s a big deal.

By Hillary Reinsberg

what’s in a name? Sept. 16, 2016

Jessica Simpson Is Happy to Have a ‘Porn Star Name’ Thanks to Her HusbandShe’s a happy Mrs. Johnson.

By Theresa Avila
what’s in a name? Aug. 22, 2016

A Canadian Town No Longer Wants to Be Known As the ‘Land of Rape and Honey’The Canadian town of Tisdale is finally changing its slogan, which refers to “rapeseed.”

By Theresa Avila
what’s in a name? Apr. 10, 2015

Are You Beyoncé Beyoncé or Just Regular Beyoncé?Name doppelgängers lead to so much anxiety.

By Allison P. Davis
what’s in a name? Sept. 28, 2014

‘My Husband’ or ‘My Boo"? The Post-Wedding Code-Switch“My husband” or “my boo”? Call it the post-wedding code-switch.

By Nona Willis Aronowitz
what’s in a name? Aug. 22, 2013

Why Is It So Hard to Call Chelsea Manning ‘She’?On names, language, and reinvention.

By Maureen O'Connor
what’s in a name? Mar. 20, 2009

Behind the Prints at Tucker by Gaby BasoraWe asked designer Gaby Basora to reveal the inspiration behind some of the splashy prints in her spring collection.

By Lauren Murrow