Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. This week we’re watching author and blogger Courtney E. Martin who examines the perennially loaded word “feminism” in this deeply personal and heartfelt talk. Born in 1979, the thirty-something writer walks us through the three essential paradoxes of her generation’s quest to define the term for themselves. It’s also about what it means to be a young adult in the 21st Century.
Martin has built a career chronicling — and encouraging — the current generation of young activists and feminists. She’s an editor at Feministing.com and the author of Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.
Even if you don’t consider yourself a feminist, watch this talk. It’s enlightening.
I don’t know about you, but I love the concept of writer as activist. Did this talk change how you view the term feminism? Whether male or female, do you consider yourself a feminist? As a female attorney, I have long embraced the word but I know that many in my genration feel uncomfortable using it. Why do you think this is still such a loaded word?
Until next time,
Cynthia Patton
