“If you were a man no one would ever ask you why don’t have children or why you didn’t change your last name when you got married. I’m the daughter of a single mother who has passed away. The universe I grew up in was all connected to my maternal family. She raised us, she did everything, but she gave us our father’s name because all cultural references told her to, and assumed I would take a man’s name, upon marriage. But this is how women have been disappeared throughout history. Women go from the house of one man’s name and when they get married they go into the house of another man’s name, as property. But the names I was born into tell a story, the only one I know, and then those stories disappear. Why is that the default? Why is that the only option? “ - Melissa Garcia works in the field of international women’s health and rights (Women Deliver)