A celebration of true feminism

I teach at an all-girls private school, so feminism comes up all the time. Some students proudly self-identify as feminists, others cringe at the label, others have no idea what it really means. When it comes up in class, I always require the students to define the term before using it. It's important, I think, to constantly define labels like these because they are so often picked up and used with abandon; their original meaning left to be desired. As I think about today's

I teach at an all-girls private school, so feminism comes up all the time. Some students proudly self-identify as feminists, others cringe at the label, others have no idea what it really means. When it comes up in class, I always require the students to define the term before using it. It's important, I think, to constantly define labels like these because they are so often picked up and used with abandon; their original meaning left to be desired. As I think about today's anniversary of the R…