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When I was still at Furman University, I was a model feminist college student. Sort of. On top of double-majoring in History and in French, I also concentrated in Women’s and Gender Studies. (At Furman, a concentration was like a minor). I even took one class over the minimum required for a WGS concentration. Note:… [Read More]
Post contains affiliate links. I’ve been a feminist for as long as I can remember. I became a feminist at such a young age that I didn’t even know what a feminist was. I didn’t know there were adults out there who understood how I felt, adults who agreed with me, adults who had paved… [Read More]
Have you ever heard of Lewis’s Law? First articulated by Helen Lewis, this Internet rule explains the phenomenon of the comment sections on articles about feminism. https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/233594800908169217 The tweet above reads: “As I’ve just told Alice Tiara, the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. That is Lewis’s Law.” For June’s The F-Word link-up with… [Read More]
As a Christian feminist, I believe in a Greater Being, an Ultimate Creator, who I call God, and for whom I use feminine pronouns. I believe this Greater Being is so great as to surpass gender—a human and thus limiting concept—and as a Greater Being beyond gender, both masculine and feminine pronouns are appropriate. Plural… [Read More]
Let me be straight with you. I have been trying to write this post for months. I just didn’t know where to begin. As a relatively privileged feminist, I really want to do this topic justice, without attempting to speak for other women. So before I delve into this, I give this humble request to… [Read More]
Some of my clearest childhood memories relate to the books I read, as I was a voracious reader at a young age. In particular, I remember reading a series of biographies of famous Americans as children. I read every single one my school library owned, and I noticed that only a few of them were… [Read More]
