![]() ![]() With my natural desire for quiet and calm, my natural unease around strangers, my natural dislike of working in groups. ![]() College, in and out of the classroom, was an education in how power was misused against certain social groups and to oppose certain public goods.īecause I know what anyone knows who follows the news, and because I react viscerally to injustice, I’ve always wrestled with my natural inclination to sit in a room reading or writing about imaginary people. On campus, student groups supported nuclear disarmament, the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, and the unionized Yale clerical and technical workers striking for better pay. In college, trying to make sense of those implications-how to manage romances with men when I didn’t always feel or want to be stereotypically feminine? How to deal with the fear of violence that came from simply walking down the streets near my dorm at night?-I voraciously worked my way through classic feminist texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millett, Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, and others. A child of the 1960s and 70s, I’ve gravitated naturally to the progressive in politics, particularly once I became aware that being female had no small implications for my life. ![]()
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