tripping on feminism.

so had a women's center board retreat today and we went around and talked about how all of us had gotten involved in women's issues etc. which forced me to think about how i had sort of fallen into feminism and gone on that (still continuing) journey. at first i thought it went back to junior year of high school and sitting next to K in mr. g's gender imbalanced econ class. but then i remebered that really it went back to init (bccj leadership initiative) and gender night which had been an infuriating, self-discovery kind of night that was complex and emotional. i wish i remembered it better...what was written, what was said...i just remember shaking.

i realized today that aside from getting into women's issues and feminism because all the inequalities and problems infuriate me, i also got into them because for most of my life, if i was stereotyped, it was as an asian, but never as a woman. which to me is a curious thing that i'm going to have to think about a bit more. (i'll let you know if i come up with anything good).