intro

Thanks so much for welcoming me into the All-Girl Army! I'm really excited, because I feel that this is both a great, tight-knit community and a very necessary project- that is, bringing young women to understand feminism.

So, you might be wondering who I am. Or you might be rolling your eyes at this introduction, but I'm hoping it's the former. I'm Julia, a freshman in a suburban high school in Northern Virginia. I'm learning to adjust to high school and fit in without giving up my values, as well as history and science and Latin and all that other stuff. I love to sing and dance and speak out. I think life's often taken too seriously and that we need to inject a little crazy, immature humor sometimes.

Welcome, welcome to the All Girl Army. Looking for some inspiration quotes, I once came across a Latin proverb: "A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women." How a propos, huh.

I admit that I never meant to be a feminist. It's one of those things where you're working on a cause and you stop and look around--only to find that you've worked yourself right into something entirely new.

As you can find in my user profile, I started into women's issues during the Alito confirmation hearings, but the truth is that it starts with the fact that I'm a sucker for nineteenth century literature and finally got a professor willing to push the canon boundaries enought to get us reading Fanny Ferne and Louisa May Alcott's lesser known social satire. It's easy to forget that women have been writing as long and as well as men have. But I digress.