On Being A Feminist Role Model in the Classroom, Revisited, Part 1

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I walk around campus, and almost all of the undergraduate women are dressed in identical athletic wear: short running shorts, oversized unisex cotton t-shirts, runners. I smile internally to myself, because there was a time where I never wore anything other than sweatpants to class and all of my shirts were oversized swimming shirts. More...