Lyndsey Godwin
Lyndsey is a Community Health Educator for Planned Parenthood, meaning she teaches people about healthy sexuality (covering anything from anatomy to healthy relationships to gender roles to STIs) for a living. Lyndsey graduated from Vanderbilt Divinity School with a focus on the intersections of religion and sex, gender, and sexuality. This study began with a self-designed interdisciplinary studies degree and women’s studies minor from Miami University (Ohio, not Florida). She’s been an activist around LGTBQI rights campaigns, performed in the Vagina Monologues, and participated in HIV vaccine research and education. When she’s not preoccupied with over-analyzing the world through the lens of sexuality Lyndsey enjoys cooking, reading, watching her two cats run around like their tails are on fire, and finding adventure and ridiculousness.
What is Feminism?
Feminism, at its heart is the recognition of and fight against systems, cultures, traditions, habits, and policies that oppress anyone. This can take a lot of forms, and is not limited to a single definition. Feminism’s earliest conceptions focused mostly on the oppression of women and feminism continues to look at the world through the lens of gender and sexuality. This focus has repeatedly been challenged and therefore continues to grow to also include and intersect with oppression issues of class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and religion.
What is Choice?
Choice is simply having the space to make informed thoughtful decisions about what happens to your body and in your life. Choice is about having access to a broad selection of options and to be able to access the information that you need to make those decisions. Choice is the freedom to explore and ask questions with out fear of violence or repression. Choice is the ability to make of your life whatever you need or want to, without, of course, denying the same choice to others.
E-mail Lyndsey: lyndsey@feministsforchoice.com
