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My Mom Was A Housewife, And Wasn't Somebody That People Would Think Of As A Feminist, And When Ms. Magazine Came Out We Were Incredibly Inspired By It. I Used To Cut Pictures Out Of It And Make Posters That Said, "girls Can Do Anything", And Stuff Like That, And My Mom Was Inspired To Work At A Basement Of A Church Doing Anti-domestic Violence Work. Then She Took Me To The Soidarity Day Thing, And It Was The First Time I Had Ever Been In A Big Crowd Of Women Yelling, And It Really Made Me Want To Do It Forever.

In The '90s, People Wore Scrunchies, But It Was Very Uncool In The Punk Scene.

My Advice For Someone Who Wants To Be Creative But Has A Chronic Illness Is To Think Of Something That You Can Do As Opposed To All The Things You Can't Do - And Do That. It's Just Like Gardening: What Can Grow In This Soil? There's Some Soil You Can Grow Roses In And Some Soil You Can Only Grow Cactuses In, So If You Can Only Grow Cactuses, Become The Best Cactus Grower In The Whole World. Taking Care Of Yourself Is The Most Important Thing. Find Something That Makes You Happy. Don't Get Down On Yourself That You Can't Run A 4k Or Dance All Night Long At A Fun Club. Give Yourself A Break.

My Original Goal In The '90s, After I Found Feminism And I Was The First Generation In My Family To Go To College, Was To Spread This Information That Feminism Was Still Very Much Alive, And That You Can't Believe The Media Telling You That It Doesn't Need To Exist And That It Doesn't Exist.

I Do Have Personal Relationships With A Lot Of "fans," In Quotations. I Answer All My Mail, I Get Emails From Fans, And I Try To Answer Them All. That's Important To Me, But Occasionally There's The Thing Where People Basically Ask Me To Write Book Reports For Them, And I Don't Have That Kind Of Time. I Feel Like There's A Certain Sexism Involved, Like Because I'm A Woman I'm Supposed To Constantly Be Like Giving To Everybody.