I didn’t know much about the complexities of feminism or the academic or political arguments about what it meant, but at a gut level, I got it. I was a feminist, even if it was my own definition,
This is important. I think as a feminist, it's important to not only know how "the system" and society and scholars define feminism, but to define it for oneself and to abide and defend, even if that definition gwta reassessed and/or changes.
