In ‘A Significant Name’, the third film in British Vogue’s 2021 Pride video series, director Diane Russo-Cheng explores the importance of her wife Ban Ban’s Chinese name. Born in Texas to Taiwanese immigrant parents, she was given an identifiable female American name and “grew up in H-town listening to hip hop and ’90s rap”, but is known as Ban Ban to her family and to her community. “I don’t care if you think I’m not from here,” she says in the film. “My name doesn’t root me in a physical place. It roots me in an idea that transcends gender. It connects me to my home, my lineage, my bloodline, my heart.” Watch Russo-Cheng’s exploration of familial love, acceptance and identity in full.
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A Significant Name | The Pride Series | British Vogue
