Today’s guest post literally moved me to tears. I was sitting, waiting for the train after the last Chicago Feminist Tweetup when I first read it, and it was so powerful and honest, I just had to share it with you here. It’s about relationships and feminism, but in a different way – which I [...]
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Guest Post: Girl Power
Today’s guest post is more about the author’s relationship with feminism, rather than feminism and relationships. Did you know I accepted posts about personal experiences with feminism, too? Well, I do! Especially after becoming so disillusioned with the feminist community a while back, and after hearing from so many people that they felt the exact [...]
Literature Review: Feminism
This begins a series of posts that, all together, comprise my literature review for my Master’s thesis research. You can view all of the posts by clicking here. What follows is the section on the feminist movement and defining feminism. Enjoy! For quite some time, feminists have used the power and ease of distribution of [...]
What Feminism Means To Me: Amanda ReCupido
Today’s post comes from Amanda ReCupido, and is part of a Salon of blog posts asking feminists to define what feminism means to them. You can follow Amanda on Twitter, read her blog, and check out her answers to the Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community interview. It Takes a Village…To Raise a Feminist or, [...]
What Feminism Means To Me: Criss L. Cox
Today’s post comes from Criss L. Cox, and is part of a Salon of blog posts asking feminists to define what feminism means to them. You can follow Criss on Twitter and read her blog. I used to think “feminists” were angry man-haters who burned bras and didn’t shave their armpits. I didn’t want to [...]
What Feminism Means To Me: Danine Spencer
Today’s post comes from Danine Spencer, and is part of a Salon of blog posts asking feminists to define what feminism means to them. You can follow Danine on Twitter, read her blog, and check out her answers to the Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community interview. Feminism is the belief that women’s rights are [...]
What Feminism Means To Me: Kate Rohdenburg
Today’s post comes from Kate Rohdenburg, and is part of a Salon of blog posts asking feminists to define what feminism means to them. You can follow Kate on Twitter, read her blog, and check out her answers to the Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community interview. I think in large part feminism to me [...]
Small Strokes Podcast: My Definition of Feminism
Click here to subscribe via iTunes! Transcript: Hello and welcome to the Small Strokes podcast. This is Ashley Lauren here, and I am the author of the Small Strokes blog, which you can find at smallstrokesbigoaks.com. This will be an extension of the blog, and a place where I will be talking about all things [...]







