Living a Feminist Life

Feminists: looking for problems. It is as if these problems are not there until you point them out; it is as if pointing them out is what makes them there.

When the gender system does not become a habit, you have failed to be habituated. And that is how feminism can be lived: as the failure to be habituated to a gender system.

obedience is associated with good cheer: to be willing is to be happy to obey. She is happily willing or willing happily.

This is how to become feminist is to be assigned as being willful: you are not willing to recede.

To be a feminist can feel like being in a different world even when you are seated at the same table.

Documents become all diversity workers have time to do. Documents then circulate within organizations, often referring to each other, creating a family of documents. They create a paper trail, a trace of where they have been. In some sense the point of the document is to leave a trail. Diversity work: a paper trail.

When did the sound of the word feminism become your sound?

Happiness as a form of emotional labor can be condensed in the formula: making others happy by appearing happy.

In living a feminist life, we learn about judgments. We learn from how they fall. Words surround us, thick with meaning and intensity.