In 2010(ish), one of my professors asked who in the class identified as a feminist and I was the only person in the entire class who raised their hand. And this was in Los Angeles, not like...Kentucky (sorry Kentucky friends). So yeah, how quickly we forget how rapidly openly identifying as a feminist has come into…

I remember a story of the first woman allowed into a football locker room to do reporting. Her first day, on camera, some dude walks up to her, drops the towel and says, “What do you think?” She replied, “Looks like a penis, only smaller.” I wish I could remember her name, because she’s a hero.

It happens in literally every single rebellion, resistance movement, or revolution that gains any sort of popularity. It helps spread the message and makes it more mainstream, which helps. Resistance groups that stay on the fringe of society never get anything done without resorting to desperate measures that, more…

As the etsy shop owner behind the “watercolor print that looks like a very nice wedding invitation” I think your accusation that my product is empty and stripped of meaning is rather baseless. It was originally hand painted for a customer’s nursery, helping foster a new generation of feminists. And so I eventually…

I got my original The Future Is Female T-shirt at Otherwild (part of the proceeds go to Planned Parenthood) and I’m damn proud of it. Whenever I wear it, I get a thumbs up by random women in the street and sometimes girls even want to take a selfie with me.

I admit, I like a number of their pins, and I’m pro-supporting small scale, independent artists. I dunno, I find sometimes virtue signaling, when public and clear, can be a good thing. A rainbow pin worn on someone’s lapel, whether people are queer or not, signals to me as someone who often feels isolated and…

Exactly. My daughter has a lot of shirts that say things like “not your average girl” (with a little girl version of Wonder Woman), “Today I am my Own Superhero,” “Invent the Future” etc. I know they’re just as corporate as the glittery pink “Daddy’s Little Princess” shirts, but I’d rather have her getting a positive,…

I have a “fight like a girl” sweatshirt my husband got me. It’s not really my thing - I wear whatever when I protest (nearly every weekend it seems these days) - but it may well become my thing based on the number of times I’ve seen girls’ and women’s faces light up when they see it, and they say “I love your shirt!”…

I have a “Nevertheless, she persisted” t-shirt that I got from a female-owned shop on etsy. I don’t just wear it because it’s “fashionable,” I wear it as a message to all of the teenage girls I work with, and to my daughter...even though she is a toddler and can’t read it.

this is some depressing shit we women go through...but its on another level when the men you gotta share a workplace with can’t even be half as professional as you. we have to be the calm ones, the ones that have more understanding of why our colleagues/bosses can’t not make that sexual joke or keep their fucking…

I will march into 2018 wearing ripped jeans, Doc Maartens, an “Angry Liberal Feminist Killjoy” tshirt, and perfect hair and makeup. I live in one of the reddest states in the Union-this is tantamount to a rebel uniform 😂

There will always, always, always, be more people willing to participate in fashionable messaging than there will be people willing to participate in more concrete action. But the messaging isn’t useless - it allows the message to spread to as many people as possible, including those who will be willing to act on it.

Hey, I may not wear them but you’re damned right I bought feminist themed gear this year. The stuff I bought supported female artists. Publicly feminist artists. And I was happy to do it. I just wish my “pussygrabs back” t-shirt from the feminist collective had been enough to save us from a shitty election night last…

This was my grad cap for my college graduation last weekend:

That’s true. In the early aughts I would have worn feminism shirts but they didn’t really exist. I did, however, have one that read “on the rebound, you’ll do” and “fresh juicy Florida oranges” (with orange halves over my tits). That’s just the sort of crap that was available... #feminism is better even if it’s just…

Exactly. In the French case in particular, it also swung back during the first and second Restorations. The tricolor was out of fashion; the Bourbon white was back. Even Marie Therese was chastised because she wore the toques of the English and was not, at least in fashion sense, celebratory of the restoration of the…

That was the theme of the Women’s Convention in Detroit- I have a shirt and a poster ;-)

I’m still going to buy the “Nevertheless, she persisted” sock yarn.

Every revolution has a commodified/fashionable element - that’s how messaging spreads. The French Revolution, in particular, ran on sartorial signaling, with Marie Antoinette’s favorite stylist making extravagantly expensive silk rosettes in revolutionary colors for the rich to accessorize with, and several people…