To @porshaolayiwola thank you for this.
Our names are sacred. Our names are songs. Our names are declarations and prayers.
This is one of those micro-aggressions that ain’t so micro. It needs to stop.
As @uzoaduba said when she told a story about wanting to shorten her name, her mother replied “if they can learn to say Tchaikovsky or Dostoyevsky,” they can learn to say your name.