Today is the 100th International Women’s Day; it is also Feminist Coming Out Day. Here I go:
I am a feminist
- because I was raised knowing that “no one is better than anyone else;”
- because we deserve to not be slaves to the scale, the mirror, and other peoples perceptions;
- because people think rape jokes are funny;
- because there are powerful, beautiful, intelligent men and women in my life, role models who I love and respect;
- because the international slave trade exists in the 21st century;
- because perfection is a destructive myth;
- because I want to honestly look my children in the eye and say, “you don’t have to be everything, but you can do anything”;
- because I am not afraid to use a word that has been marginalized and stigmatized;
- because I am a woman;
- because I believe in justice;
- because our work is not yet done
tess m. waggoner 