Bea: 24, from decatur, Georgia, works at a library, teaches at the local elementary school, volunteers at a queer black youth center, and is active in Incite, an organization of women of color against violence.
“Recently, feminism is not the direction I see myself going—I am trying to be more ‘gender-revolutionary.’ I love women, I’m queer, but being in a lot of women-only spaces in the past, it was a feeling of pro-woman without speaking to masculine women or feminine men. I think feminism still doesn’t quite know how to handle the trans community.”
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1 Anonymous // Oct 29, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I feel exactly the same way as a transgender woman. Feminism always seemed awkward to me because it was all “we have a vagina, we can have babies, therefore we are the same.” I don’t have a vagina and can’t have babies but that doesn’t mean I am not a woman. I am affected by many issues that “feminism” encompasses.
2 Dina // Oct 30, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Violence is an issue I can definitely get behind. When I went to the Vagina Monologues, I was blown away. It is such an ingrained theme in our culture, and needs to be addressed more as a women’s issue.
3 Lucille // Nov 20, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Right On Bea!!!
4 Beyond “I’m not a feminist, but…” // Apr 12, 2010 at 2:55 pm
[...] it because they feel it does not include them and never did–women like Renee and Cille and Bea and Jennifer Bartlett and the vast majority of WOCs (or otherwise traditionally marginalized women) [...]
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