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Feminist Awakening

I have been feminist for 32 years. My feminist awakening began in the early '90s, during my freshman year at Olympia High School, when I started going to all-ages punk shows with my friends. This was the height of the Riot Grrrl movement, and I was right there, in the heart of it, by sheer luck of my parents having settled in Olympia before I was born. I was inspired by the Riot Grrrls’ brash feminism and scrappy musical stylings.