Fast Company | Practical Radicals: "Ever since she arrived as a child from Mexico, Maricela Gallegos has heard the same question: Couldn't she Americanize her name? "Mary" would be so much easier to pronounce. "I say, No, my name is Maricela. All my brothers and sisters changed their names. They always said to me, 'Why do you go against the grain? Roll with the punches.' But I could never do that. I'd be shortchanging myself. [...] I was trying to conform enough to be effective, but not so much as to be co-opted. [...] I compromised myself in exchange for the power of the institution".
A story on people who change the rules slowly, from the inside.
# Dec 3, 2003