Feminism is all about undoing stereotypes about gender, so there's nothing feminine about feminism.

Feminism is not dead, by no means.

But anyway, since feminism was un African,

We had a memorable fight. Feminism is dated?

He said, Tell me what's feminine about feminism.

Feminism was the water I grew up in.

I realized feminism wasn't about man hating and Birkenstocks.

So my feminism is very indebted to my mom's, but it looks very different.

Then an academic, a Nigerian woman told me that feminism was not our culture and that feminism wasn't African, and that I was calling myself a feminist because I had been corrupted by Western books.

And perhaps this is the ultimate gift of feminism, that the personal is in fact the political.

But the more I thought about his question, the more I thought there might be something feminine about feminism.

Years ago, when I was in graduate school, one of my graduate advisors who knew I was interested in feminism

Once, when my daughter Paula was in her twenties, she said to me that feminism was dated, that I should move on.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

I am foremost interested to make art to make art that transcends politics, religion, the question of feminism, and become an important, timeless, universal work of art.

I tell you this at the risk of embarrassing myself, because I think part of the work of feminism is to admit that aesthetics, that beauty, that fun do matter.

But I suspected there was something really important about this whole feminism thing, so I started covertly tiptoeing into my mom's bookshelves and picking books off and reading them never, of course, admitting that I was doing so.

Now the two I've picked George F Will, a Pulitzer Prize winning conservative commentator, and Betty Frieden who wrote The Feminine Mystique and lead second wave feminism in the United States they're unlikely to have exactly the same things to say.

If in the Islamic Revolution, the images of the woman portrayed were submissive and didn't have a voice, now we saw a new idea of feminism in the streets of Tehran women who were educated, forward thinking, non traditional, sexually open, fearless and seriously feminist.

Maybe this is because feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Women s advocacy has also shaped a new approach to poverty alleviation in Morocco, in the form of the National Initiative for Human Development, which integrates efforts to improve education with better sanitation and housing. It is no exaggeration to say that the Moroccan women s movement has become the cutting edge of reform, engaging Islamization, modernization, democratization, and feminism.

And this is not true, and, actually, reconciling all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I understood that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process, and this is a spread from a zine that I made last year when I I mean, I think I've let myself go a bit on the illustration front since.