Author: Allison Shiozawa Miles

I didn’t wish to change my final title. I dragged my ft as a younger 21-year-old bride, waging an inside battle between my need to keep up my identification with the will to embrace my new husband, which, custom insisted, included his title.For months after our marriage ceremony, I fought the choice, playfully suggesting that my new husband take my surname, Shiozawa. However the concept of a white man taking a Japanese surname once I had three brothers to hold it on — as if that might be the one legitimate motive to contemplate it — appeared absurd to everybody…