Cassandra writes into Feministe:
You might remember that I sent in a Feministe Feedback two months ago. If you don’t, the basic background is that I am a seventeen year old Canadian with a budding interest in feminism and human rights and nowhere to channel it. I began to read back in the archives of your blog to learn more and followed links and read. I eventually read about grassroots movements and so on. I reached out and networked with some girls at my all-girls Catholic school during a history class as we talked about race relations in North America. I learned a lot from them. We went to the administration to try to set up a “feminist club�, but we were rejected.So we took our fights outside. We handed fliers outside off school property, and organized independent meetings across the Toronto Catholic District School Board. This March we organized events for Eating Disorder Awareness Week and raised $2,000 across Toronto for charity and granted bursaries from our donations to young girls who have experienced, struggled with or survived an eating disorder to help them with future education.
I know that this is, on a larger scale, quite small and probably just a drop in an ocean. But I wanted to thank you for helping me find my voice as a young feminist. I have started an internet blog and am currently heading a council made up of TCDSB students to provide a meeting and speaking space for young women to discuss and learn from each other.
Hot young feminist action. I love it. She's even started a blog. The gals here at Feministing have gotten similar emails from you in the past - talking about how you came to feminism, how the feminist blogosphere inspired you to take action, and the different ways you're getting involved. So to keep all of us upbeat in the face of all the sexist nonsense - send us your stories! (The ones you won't mind us publishing, of course.) Tell us what you're doing, how you became involved, and if the feminist community online had anything to do with it. Even better - send us pics of you taking feminist action. Hearing the work that other young women are doing always inspires me, so I'm imagining it will do the same for Feministing readers...
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That just warms my heart.
That's wonderful.
So nice to read a happy story here!
very inspiring....onto a new generation of feminism.
and I just read the same thing on Feministe too:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/04/01/go-young-feminists-go/
off topic, but i think it's a great initiative: miss landmine. launched to helps victims of landmines to regain their confidence & to raise awareness on the still ongoing landmine issue in africa & other parts of the world. i thought you gals would be interested.
off topic, but i think it's a great initiative: miss landmine. launched to helps victims of landmines to regain their confidence & to raise awareness on the still ongoing landmine issue in africa & other parts of the world. i thought you gals would be interested.
sorry, you have to click my name for the link to the site :)
Feministing, my feminist mother, and bitch magazine are the reasons I'm switching my major to Women's Studies when I transfer to CU Boulder next semester (I'm currently a Religious Studies major).
You ladies are part of the reason I've decided to make feminism my life's work (well, a major part actually). I'm a child of the backlash (born in 1988) and it's because of publications like these that I haven't adopted the backlash attitude that a lot of the people my age have. I still need to do some activism though...does giving EC to a customer when the dominionist pharmacist at your work won't count as activism? Whatever. It counts.
Thank you for everything!!
Jessica, if you read this, you inspired me to start my feminist blog! Thanks for that. :)