Klee’s Reviews > Periodic Table Of Feminism > Status Update

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be not how we are”

“Feminism is about choice; I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it”

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I am not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect … I am ... trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing whilst also being myself; a woman who loves pink and likes to get freaky and sometimes dance her ass off to music she knows, she knows, is terrible for women."

“Feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.”

… meet African-American women, some born into slavery, who understood the intersectional nature of their oppression and articulated it over a century before Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term.
…dislodge the patriarchal convention and oppression.

…meet women who fought for access into the realms from which they have been excluded the worlds of science, law, medicine, government and journalism.
… meet women who fought t make the lives of their working sisters better, demanding eight-hour days, free education and childcare.
… meet women who dedicated their lives to making birth control readily available to any who woman who needed it.

The First Wave
… the fight for suffrage was the pinnacle of a wider struggle for personhood; for ownership of womens own lives and identities, for their voices, ambitions, need and ideas to be heard an acknowledged.
… meet women who fought to take legal possession of not only themselves but of their children and money.