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Tag: Feminist Click Moment
Click! My Church Is Against Battered Women’s Shelters?!
“We’ve got to stop those feminists from setting up a battered women’s shelter!” So proclaimed my piano teacher in numerous post-lesson conversations with my mom. When she wasn’t grumbling about […]
Click! Go Ahead, Call Me a Bitch
Call me “castanets,” because I’ve had a gazillion “clicks” since I first declared myself a feminist. I was a teen in South Dakota, and after reading Robin Morgan’s Sisterhood Is […]
Click! Hot Lips Houlihan Made Me a Feminist
In the early 1980s I was a suburban girl growing up outside Miami and I knew few mothers who worked. My own mother had quit the nursing job she loved […]
Click! Teaching Feminism to Boys
There is nothing in the world more infuriating and yet more life-affirming than attempting to teach a room full of 15- and 16-year-old boys why feminism matters. Yet, as an […]
Click! Not a Knight in Shining Armor
As a teenager coming of age in the 1970s in mainstream culture in the upper midwest, I missed the United States’ radicalizing movements by a decade and several hundred miles. […]
Click! A College Grad Strips on Bourbon Street
I was dancing in a G-string and pasties when I first realized I was a feminist. Backtrack: I was a young woman experimenting with the boundaries of freedom. It was […]
Click! My Catholic School Report Card
At St. Charles School in the mid 1960s, Father Foley, our parish pastor, came into our classroom to hand out the report cards. He said the same thing every year: […]
We Are Feminists Because… (Part 2)
Yesterday, we posted a video of Ms. and Feminist Majority staffers talking about why they are feminists; today we want to share more such declarations: We also want to give […]
We Are Feminists Because…
This last week, Natalie Hart wrote a post about Reclaim The Name, a project she undertook in school to replace “I’m not a feminist but…” with “I am a feminist […]