Inanna Sarkis knows the power a name has.

The social media content creator and actress, who is from Assyrian and Bulgarian descent, was already self-conscious in grade school that her name didn’t fall into the Mary and Sue categories like the other kids’ names. The kids in her class in the blue-collar city of Hamilton, Ontario, didn’t make it easy on her as kids are wont to do, but a teacher, of all people, in the fourth grade took the othering up a notch.

One day, calling kids up to get pizza for a class lunch, the teacher repeatedly and purposely bungled her name. Then came the final insult for the child.

Inanna Sarkis knows the power a name has.

The social media content creator and actress, who is from Assyrian and Bulgarian descent, was already self-conscious in grade school that h

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