Welcome, welcome. I expect roughly 100% of people who ever read this will know me personally, but in case a stranger should actually stop by, my name is Kelly. I'm a 21 year-old queer grrl, finishing up my undergraduate career as a Gender Studies major. Hopefully next year I'll move on to grad school. I'm a sexual assault advocate as well as a survivor.
So why am I here? Well, feminism is pretty much my whole life. I like to think of feminism as more of a verb than a noun, and I try to live my life as a series of "feministings" (to borrow a very useful title of a blog I love and respect). I'm planning to this blog to process and record my adventures in feminism, rant a little (okay, maybe a lot), share things I find interesting or important (and probably things I find awful, too), and maaaaybe even teach someone something. This will probably come off as more personal than a lot of feminist blogs, and that's very much intentional. I want to share my experiences fighting the good fight, so to speak, and hopefully someone will be able to identify with some of them.
Oh, by the way, sorry if you're not a fan of swear words. I'll try to use them more as a verbal garnish than as a staple, but, well, I'm not making any promises.
Do not swear! Naughty! Naughty!
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations on the new blog... from your first follower.
Some advice from an ancient feminist. RELAX. Don't be so "uptight" to use the hippie vernacular. The world can be a pretty ignorant place (re: your second post) and you can't educate them all. When you go into your lizard brain, they stop listening. Whisper... they will listen harder.
Lessons from an old teacher. Keep up the good fight.
MD