This month with our special series on gratitude we here at Feminists for Choice have let the world know what, and especially WHO we are thankful for. Now its your turn! Please respond and let the world know who you, as a strong, passionate feminist, are thankful for this holiday season!
After all, a THANKFUL feminist is a HAPPY feminist!
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Janice is a Virtual Assistant, aspiring doula, and long-time feminist activist with a passion for women's history, nonfiction, nature, and wearing flowers in her hair. She is the Founder of The Feminist's Guide, a women's history travel website, which can be found at www.thefeministguide.com. |
I am most thankful for my ability to obtain a safe and legal abortion lats year. I am alive, healthy, and childfree today! I have no idea if I will ever decide to start a family, but I am thankful I have the option to delay the start of my family if an accident happens.
I am also thankful for a wide range of birth control services that helped me get my fertility under control and increase my protection against a future unplanned, unwanted, pregnancy.
I’m grateful for good friends; a strong pro-choice community, both online and offline; little dogs in cute outfits; an awesome mom; and a really good partner.
I am very grateful to have a wonderful feminist therapist who is also a post-rape and post-abortion counsellor. I’m grateful for all of the hard working women at the Durham Rape Crisis Centre who do everything in their power to make life better for survivors.
I’m extremely grateful to have access to government provided healthcare, clean water, healthy food, and choice.
I am thankful that I have so many wonderful women, friends, examples, and mentors in my life. I am lucky to have such a great community!
I am thankful…well…for feminism itself, first of all, without which I would be a lot worse off. I am thankful for having my eyes opened to just how rotten this world is and I’m thankful feminism allows me to stand up for myself and other women against the kyriarchy. I’m thankful for having met so many wonderful people, particularly on Twitter (which I’m thankful for) and, more than anything, I’m thankful for a network of loving and supportive people who would give their right arms for me. Finally, I’m thankful for my mother, who sowed the seeds of my pro-choice-ness (is that even a word?).
Alice Paul. Like many I am sure I did not know much about here ’til Iron Jawed Angels came out on HBO but once it did I checked her out even more and I am thankful she existed.