“Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name?” Rules! at The Marsh, Berkeley
Irma Herrera’s Success Celebrates Names & Identities by Cynthia K. Lopez In the U.S., why do we think it’s okay to mangle a person’s name or assign them an entirely new one, if the original is hard to pronounce? Civil rights attorney, social justice advocate, journalist, and playwright, Irma Herrera, asks, “Why would I…