I ask because I was thinking of how I went from a “one of the guys” type of girl to a full blown “bring down the patriarchy” type of woman. It wasn’t one thing, it was many. Only through reflection and carefully putting the pieces together did I realize feminism was everything I had been feeling about my anger and frustration at inequality, and my need to make the world better for the people around me, but especially my neices.
So when did you realize you were a feminist?
I was a third-wave feminist ever since I started to be exposed to it in college, but I wouldn’t really say I truly matured into feminism until a while later, when I finally understood and started to internalize intersectionality. I even remember having a light bulb moment during a discussion of the rallies during the 2016 American presidential campaign. It was like, “ohh. it really has always been like this for anyone not cis, male, and white, and I never truly listened.”