Hey! Who's the New Girl?

Hello all!

As Heather said below, I'm Erica and I’ll be adding my superpowers to the Feminist Dream Team. That’s right, we’re now officially going blog-steady! Get ready, Patriarchy, you’re going down, but not before I introduce myself.

I am: a feminist, unabashedly pro-choice, a political junkie, a student, a woman, and damn proud of all of it.

Given the political junkie in me, I’ll be blogging a lot on the intersection of politics and feminism/sexism. Yeah, I’ll focus a lot on why you should care about politics if you are a woman…even if you are an anti-choice, un-feminist woman…even if you are Phyllis Schlafly. The fact of the matter is the next president will likely appoint 2 – 3 Supreme Court justices, and the Supreme Court is making a lot of 5 – 4 decisions. So regardless of whether or not you think Roe vs. Wade should stay in place, the identity of the next president should matter to you…a lot. But more on this later.

I’ll also spend a good deal of time on patriarchy and the media as they are two of my favorite things in the world verbally smackdown. And yes, they are very connected. In today’s 24 hr news cycle, media permeates everything country, the media is often one of the most important means of keeping the patriarchy alive. Everywhere you look, you see the promotion of patriarchal feminine ideals in movies, music, books, and even the “objective” news media, especially with regard to the virgin/whore dichotomy. Not only does it lead to a society in which women cannot (as opposed to have not) achieve true egalitarianism, it has a devastating effect on the mental health of women across the country. It ain’t right, friends. But once again, I’ll get back to this in a later post.

Anyhoo, I’m glad to be here and hope we can have some great conversations.

See you in the next post,

Erica