"It’s for my Queer and Feminist Comparative Literature...

"It’s for my Queer and Feminist Comparative Literature Theory class."

“Let me write that down…”

“I took it more for the teacher than the class. My school was all-male until the sixties, and she was one of the first teachers at the women’s college. She’s really respected.”

“So what’s one important thing she’s taught you?”

“… about how it’s important for feminists to evaluate everyday occurrences. How even routine personal interactions are political. Everything is significant, and even little things have meaning.”

“Is it possible to see too much meaning in little things?”

“Well, there does seem to be some people who go around looking for things to be angry about. But if the alternative is to be desensitized to how small things affect us, I think it’s better to be overly sensitive.”