Living a Feminist Life

living a feminist life requires being willing to get in the way.

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Feminism can be more easily dismissed when feminism is heard as about dismissal;

I think for many women, becoming willing to participate in sexist culture is a compromise, even if it is not registered as such, because we have been taught (from past experience, from what we come up against) that being unwilling to participate can be dangerous.

The idea of feminist classics for me is a way of thinking about how books make communities. I was part of a feminist

When we think of feminist theory as homework, the university too becomes something we work on as well as at. We use our particulars to challenge the universal.

Feminism heightens consciousness of there being lines at all and thus requires us to make decisions when before decisions might have been made before us, or even without us.

Feminism: how we survive the consequences of what we come up against by offering

Happiness as a form of emotional labor can be condensed in the formula: making others happy by appearing happy.