By Maria DiPasquale, Staff Writer, Emerson College
Let me tell you a story.
In late May of my senior year, my friends and I finally decided to extend our constant dialogue about feminism outside of our friend group. Up until then, we’d admittedly been mainly talk and no action. From time to time, a couple of my friends would bring up the idea of writing a feminist zine. We always liked the idea. I’d even been planning once on collaborating with a friend on an “Ode to the Sacagawea Coin.” But nothing had ever come of it all.
I’d been seeing “I need feminism because…” campaigns all over the Internet and thought we could easily bring the idea to our school to start a dialogue about feminism. My friends immediately agreed. We finally started to turn our talk into action. I created a Facebook page, made my friends admins. We invited students and asked them to start posting about why they needed feminism. And they did. Students from my high school, across grades, classes, and friend groups, were finally sharing the same ideas my friends and I talked about on a daily basis.
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Let me tell you a story.
In late May of my senior year, my friends and I finally decided to extend our constant dialogue about feminism outside of our friend group. Up until then, we’d admittedly been mainly talk and no action. From time to time, a couple of my friends would bring up the idea of writing a feminist zine. We always liked the idea. I’d even been planning once on collaborating with a friend on an “Ode to the Sacagawea Coin.” But nothing had ever come of it all.
I’d been seeing “I need feminism because…” campaigns all over the Internet and thought we could easily bring the idea to our school to start a dialogue about feminism. My friends immediately agreed. We finally started to turn our talk into action. I created a Facebook page, made my friends admins. We invited students and asked them to start posting about why they needed feminism. And they did. Students from my high school, across grades, classes, and friend groups, were finally sharing the same ideas my friends and I talked about on a daily basis.
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