As an academic, names become something extremely prevalent to your career and identity. This is because when we publish, our surnames become attached to our work forever. Our careers are dependent on this one word that attaches our identities to our expertise. This can come with a lot of intersectional challenges. For example, it is common for women in academia when they get married to change their names, but keep their maiden name's in their publications, as if they change it, it could look like a completely different body of work. An article in Nature ' Racial inequalities in journals highlighted in giant study ' by Amanda Heidt, found that scientists from minority ethnic groups experience various forms of inequality throughout the academic-publishing process and are poorly represented on journal editorial boards. The study itself is an imperfect study, as the algorithms used misclassified Black names 65% of the time, which led researchers to argue that it might be mo...