Saint Mary's College - 2003 - Friends

I’m not skilled at talking about feminism and had to come to terms with it the hard, crash into the authorities way in college. After two years at a the same Catholic women’s school my mother attended, I found it much more interesting to try and understand stories about gender than delve into a the feminist consciousness.

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods–My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine is one memoir, written by Noelle Howey, about a relationship between a daughter and her dad: transgendered, lesbian, and father. I already understood that process of coming to terms with being an individual without moving into a feminist world. The story is profound, honest, and human.

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