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Margaret Pilarski

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i'm a feminist, and if you're reading this then you are too, you just might not know it yet. i like to eat cheese and travel, but i'm usually broke and/or spending my money on shoes and cocktail rings. i love dogs, rain, and driving offensively (and putting the last comma in a listed series). i'm se...

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sisterhood, repeatedly interrupted

last night was another wgs third thursday, a discussion of deborah siegel’s sisterhood, interrupted. unfortunately, there was another event going on at the same time, the grand opening of k. morgan, a hot new boutique on king st.

SO! since i couldn’t be in two places at once, we’ll have a guest blogger here on my page for the next entry: miss julie perretta-mccarthy will be detailing her lush experience at k.morgan and sharing some fashionable photo snaps of other ladies at the event.

on to the sisterhood... at first i had a scary flashback to college of my professor discussing international water supply and me thumbing through a stack of 4 books i was supposed to have read the night before, trying to find a chapter on fertilizer so i could participate in the discussion. luckily, alison piepmeier was our moderator and she promised me she wouldn’t be calling on anyone outright.

this is allison hall, the 2008-2009 house manager of the wgs house on bull st., and myself. don’t you love allison’s shirt? it’s the latest tee of cofc NOW, and it says: “this is what barbie should look like!” love it, love it :)

we had a really great discussion of feminism through the years and the generational disconnect that many of us feel. older feminists posed questions to us younger ones like, “does yes mean yes?” and do we call guys/pay for dates? at first it was odd, because these women were my own mother’s age and were asking what rainbow parties were and we had to explain (not that we ever participated!!).

but overall, it was great to hear a consensus from older women that they’ve seen changes in their own lives, that they’ve purposely raised young men to respect young women, that they still consciously split household work. i think hearing things like that really gives hope to us young women that maybe we can still go through lots of crap in life, but we won’t lose our feminist wits. we may be backsliding, but we understand that our personal lives are political and that we’ll hold tight and smash that patriarchy!

alison piepmeier and kelly, alison just had to wear my bird headband.