Melody had invited us to stay with her in Tulsa a few weeks ago, finding out about our project through a post on Feministing. She was rais...

My mother, journalist, feminist and cultural critic Ellen Willis, died a year ago today. I’ve been honoring her by reliving the time follow...

Flustered and late, we are greeted with breakfast at Maria Buszek's house on a street lined with autumn leaves. Maria, a third waver, h...

Monica ( above ): 25, was raised in Texas and Kansas, born to “free spirit” Mexican-Indian father and an immigrant German mother, former air...

We are staying with Craig, an artist who I met in NYC many years ago. He hooked us up with all of the great ladies we interviewed in KC, inc...

Angela and her friend, Joey, meet us at Monica’s house for a cup of coffee. Angela, 26, is originally from Kansas City, and although she pl...

Szoke ( right ): 23, waitress, actress, went to Temple University, New York transplant. Wavers on the feminist question because she believe...

We interview Mei-Mei over tea the next morning on her sunny balcony overlooking a prehistoric southwest landscape (pictures lost). Mei-Mei ...

Siman ( left ): born in Somalia, practicing Muslim, went to Howard University, works for the public health department, a single mom raising ...

While Emma takes care of some business in Tucson, I go to Phoenix to meet Lindsey, a native New Yorker, for breakfast. She had moved to Ari...

Luke, who we are staying with, is one of Emma’s best friends from college and Liz’s younger brother. It is late, and we curl up on his bed i...

Madeline and Liz are roommates, from Omaha and Dayton, Ohio respectively. Both are feminists and activists. They both work for Food Not Bomb...

Joanna Frueh : late fifties, art historian, erotic performance artist, feminist. On youth and sexuality: “When I see women who look like yo...

Bailey Doogan , a painter and feminist, was the first woman to teach in the art department at the University of Arizona. Bailey came to fem...

For Halloween we decided to dress up as famous "scarrry" feminists, to educate the throngs of Las Vegas party goers wondering ...

Becky: 20, originally from Chicago and La Verne, CA, student at San Diego State, in the midst of applying to law school. “If you’re not a fe...

Melissa: Medical student, surfer, future psychiatrist. Doesn’t consider herself a feminist: “Even though I believe in women’s rights, there...

The subject of men infiltrates most of our interviews, but we often gloss over the idea of men actually being feminists. When we met with t...

Lili: 21 ( on her Bel Air terrace, right ), Jewish-Persian, graduated from UCLA, raised in a very conservative, traditional household. “[In ...

If you never go to Los Angeles, you may hold onto the stereotype that LA is in its own sunny, flaky, movie bubble. If you do pay a visit, i...