I Am A Feminist Because

***first published by Faces of Feminism on their Instagram page as a post and their website. I submitted this originally on September 5th 2020.

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I was dog sitting a basset hound last year in this picture when the sun hit perfectly through the windows and I just knew I needed to take a selfie. Edited with Instagram.

Jaime, she/they

“I am a feminist because it makes the most sense to me as a framework of cultivating a future that identifies, analyzes & validates the threads weaving reproductive justice and women's rights with the unbridled desensitization and deployment of racism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fatphobia, in every day life.”

“I am a feminist because, contrary to popular white heteronormative belief, power in the political, industrial, and educational systems need to be reexamined and eventually redistributed through the lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as these historically devalued communities are still struggling in intentionally segregated fragments, in the fabric of white patriarchy.”

“Lastly, I am a feminist because my feminism stands for liberation from all interconnected struggles and violence, across border states, regardless of diaspora, and that is the identity I know I will be proud of on my deathbed.”