The personal is political. It’s a saying that my three semesters of social work classes have drilled into my head. My understanding of it is that it’s the realization that what affects you as an [[enter race and/or ethnicity] [enter age] [enter sexual orientation] [enter sex] — in my case, a Caucasian 20-year-old heterosexual female] […]

Via Feministing Glad to see a young woman embracing her own sense of politics as separate from her parents’!