Although I have Feministing on my blogroll and consistently read Jezebel, I didn’t always quite self-define as a feminist.  I know, that is part of the problem and I need to get comfortable with what it means to self-identify as a Feminist and not be ashamed or whatever.  I know.  Thing is, recently I’ve started wearing that label loud and proud.

For a long time I felt like it was too tough to reconcile the part of me that makes my own granola and wants to have hippy babies in PDX if this whole grad-school thing doesn’t work out with the part of me that is super pro-choice, really into girl-power, and once supported her boyfriend for several months while he looked for a job (love you Jon).

Maybe it is the current political climate, maybe it is getting out of those liberal strong-holds of OR and CA, but suddenly I get it…  Although I wasn’t a Hillary Clinton supporter, I’m starting to understand why women who are just a smidge older than me felt obligated to vote for her.  I’m also starting to understand why people get their hackles up about Sarah Palin, media coverage, etc.

Wait, didn’t I just say that I wasn’t going to write about politics in this space?  Okay, I won’t.  This is just to say that my creative time today (er, my “me” time) was spent reading this month’s Bitch Magazine.  So, although I wasn’t actually producing anything today really, I did get inspired by women everywhere working for really amazing things.

I’m going to a Planned Parenthood conference this weekend and can’t wait!