February 2012
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It's Back And Bigger Than Ever. →
Turning Feminist Coming Out Day into a national campaign taught us as much about coalition-building and progressive activism as it did about our own relationships to feminism. Along the way, we met incredibly passionate people, got a crash course in online publicity, and learned how to incorporate feedback and criticism from our constituents (i.e. all of you lovely people). A year later,...
December 2011
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Announcing Feminist Pride Day 2012
On March 8, 2011, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, campuses across the nation celebrated with us by joining together for Feminist Coming Out Day and the online Feminist Portrait Project. On the eve of the new year, co-founders Abby Sun and Lena Chen are proud to announce that the campaign will be relaunched in collaboration with the Feminist Majority Foundation. Renamed...
April 2011
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Maternal Feminism
Hi! I’m Tanya -mother and feminist. I blog about what it means to me to be both. I’m a lactivist and an intactivist. I believe with confidence and the right support all women can and should breastfeed their babies, in the genital integrity of all children, in attachment parenting, in sex education, birth control, and in a womans right to govern not only her own reproduction but...
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This is what a feminist looks like!
This is what a Canadian, vegetarian, philosophizing, weird, compassionate, passionate, wiccan, informed, and kick-ass FEMINIST looks like!
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Human Rights is the issue in my view
I don’t know that women and men are equal because they are not the same and both fulfill needed roles. I would say that ALL genders are human and on that basis, none ore more or less deserving of human rights. Until women are no longer killed, damaged, stopped, and punished solely on the basis of their gender, I see the need for the increasing of planetary awareness. I object to the history...
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Feminism gave me the space and tools to analyze, pin down, and most importantly separate myself from normative gender roles and viscerally negative, internalized social messages. I think of the diversity of feminist thought as a mindset, a framework through which one may live, question and engage society in a more aware and healthy way - a framework to shape explanation of women’s...
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A woman is like a tea bag. It is only when she’s in hot water that you realise how strong she is. – Nancy Regan
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Kaylyn, 18, University of Alabama
Gender equality is important because gender inequality is connected to so many other forms of inequality. For instance, homophobia is just one of the ways in which gender inequality is played out. It, too, is rooted in the cultural devaluation of the feminine. I began to notice this cultural devaluation as a problem in the fifth grade when my mother was asked by church leadership to refrain from...
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Gender equality is the first step towards equality for all people. My feminist awakening came early in my life as an oppressed member of society through my identification as queer, immigrant, and ethnic minority. It is essential for me to project the issue of gender violence as one of the most significant issues in our society today. Feminists and pro-feminists must band together to work towards...
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Up for the challenge
I was until college when I learn that I am a feminist. I took a pasioned man that saw in his students feminist waiting for that little extra push to be the best men and women they can be. Maybe is because I want to go against all those roles society specially my culture has set up for women. I don’t wear pink at all, I feel that pink has become a symbol or a way to mark women. I say pink is...
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Christine, 32, Wicihta Kansas
Labels
Do not slap a label on me just because it makes you more comfortable.
I could care less about your comfort, I am living for me.
Don’t presume to think you know who I am
Greedy
Lesbian
Straight
Confused
STOP!!! I do not care what you think
When exactly did I say here, Please judge my life???
Oh yeah wait I didn’t!!! So stop, I do not give a fuck...
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MARINA
I am a feminist because I believe everyone is equal, because I feel just as beautiful with make up as I do with a T-shirt and jeans, because I know how sexist our society is and I try to make everyone around me just as aware, because I know what not to teach my children about gender, because I know being a FEMINIST is not just standing up for women rights, because I know better than to believe the...
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THE SKY IS THE LIMIT
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This is why
Because both men and women and those who don’t identify with either deserve equal respect, dignity and are part of our diverse beautiful world. I want to honor those who came before me and have fought injustice and will continue to fight for a world where our differences are honored and respected daily. Tolerance is wearing thin and humans are wearing thin. Love can’t thrive with...
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This is what a feminist looks like … me building some speaker stands for Sheffield Pride 2010.
I’m a feminist because I need to be. I believe in equality and unfortunatley live in a society where it still doesn’t exist.
Heather, 29, UK
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Birth of a feminist
My feminist awakening was when I gave birth to my son. Things went relatively smooth at the hospital and my son was born happy and healthy. However, I knew something was wrong. Things didn’t go the way I wanted them to in the hospital. It felt unnatural. I was given drugs even though I originally asked my doctor not to give me any. I was given an episiotamy without being informed. I was...
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always been, always will be
I’ve always been a feminist. I grew up in a strict Catholic family, and despite its greatest efforts, the churches teachings on gender roles never inspired anything in me besides willful revolt. Possibly because gender roles revolt me. And because I naturally have the strength to demand to be treated and to treat others with equality, it saddens me that of eight children, only my brother and...
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Heidi Lothringer, 23, Las Vegas
I have been a feminist since I was called a slut in middle school for no reason and realized what bullshit that was.
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Checker's Feminist Style
CLICK! I asked to be Queened instead of Kinged playing checkers with my mother. She said, “Aren’t you my little feminist” - I wasn’t sure what she meant, but it felt right~! I was 10.
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Stay At Home Mom - A Feminist?
I believe in equal rights for women. I believe in equal pay. I believe men should share equally the responsibilities of raising children. I believe women should share equally in providing for the family. Unfortunately, few careers allow job sharing today. Few careers allow two partners to work part time to share childcare responsibilities equally and still be successful in their career. If I...
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My Feminist Click Moment Or: How Feminism and A...
I was a teenage satanist. Under the tutelage of Anton LeVay’s The Satanic Witch, I didn’t think women needed equal rights. Women were already the most powerful creatures in the world because they could get whatever they wanted through the subtle, irresistible guile of a woman’s sexuality. You could not convince me that men got all the jobs and the money because Satanism had...
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