Miss Mrs Ms ME
I got divorced and all I recieved from the settlement was his name.
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He wouldn't marry me unless I took his name.
​I hate my name, my father abandoned us and I'm branded with his name.
My mum raised me alone, yet I have my father's name.
​In the name of the father, then my husband, I have lost myself/
I feel no connection to my name, there is no heritage, no memories other than sadness.
Miss Mrs Ms ME
Jerry Bingle blogs abouts her unhappy marriage to Crow and desire to leave, but with no money, no friends and nowhere to go she is stuck in marriage purgatory.
That is until coworker Cham offers her a key.
Jerry blogs anonymously to a small community who find her mundane posts are one click away from unfollowing. That is until Jerry shares her break up story and her desire to change her name to Gomez.
Jerry wants to rid herself of her married name and doesn't want to go back to her maiden name as it is the name of her father. The post resonates and Jerry becomes a viral sensation when women across the globe join suit and change their surnames to Gomez as a sign of unison, protesting the titles we take, the labels we are given and the expectations these hold.
They are known as the Gomez Girls.
The Gomez Girls
Jerry chooses the name Gomez as he was a character on an old black and white TV series that Jerry would watch as a child to block out the sound of domestic abuse. She wanted to be Gomez's girl, first as a child, then as a woman who based the perfect man on him.
She believes that blood does't always make you a family and that the collective of women who united under the name Gomez to be sisters as not all family are blood but instead family can be found in the unlikeliest places.
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