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Windy City Times

The Chicago book launch for author Lynn Comella's new book Vibrator Nation, detailing the fascinating history of how stores like Early to Bed set the sex-toy industry abuzz, will be Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. at 5044 N Clark St. The event is free.

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

UNLV chapter of the NAACP, along with the Black Lives Matter UNLV will hold a news conference Thursday at 3:00 p.m. to address an incident that occurred with North Las Vegas Police during a Black Lives Matter poetry event.

Moneyish

Today in “Why is this still a thing?”: Keeping your maiden name could affect how people view your husband.

Daily Mail

While taking their husband's surname was once the norm, women are increasingly choosing to keep their maiden name after marriage.

The Independent

Once upon a time it was considered custom for women to take their husband’s name after marrying.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV’s School of Medicine received a $234,443 state public safety grant to examine traffic-related injuries and deaths in Nevada, university officials said Wednesday.

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

The president of UNLV demanded an apology from the North Las Vegas Police Department after students say police officers rode their motorcycles through the campus immediately following a Black Lives Matter event.

MarketWatch

Visiting my family in the Midwest over Thanksgiving, I returned to a topic that’s become very familiar ever since I became engaged a little more than a year ago: Whether I plan to change my last name after I get married.

Bustle

Recent research conducted by Rachael Robnett of the University of Nevada and published in the journal Sex Roles has unearthed some truly disheartening things about how whether a heterosexual woman changes her name upon marriage affects how people think of her husband. It’s yet another example of how sexism is bad for everyone, no matter what gender you identify as — and a reminder of how much work we still have left to do to dismantle the cultural tyranny of rigidly-defined gender roles.

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