ABSTRACT
From the time I was in pre-school I’ve been agitating for social change. I accompanied my mother to women’s rights rallies, and door-to-door campaigns for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. In high school I joined antinuclear protests. In college I worked against apartheid and marched in support of women’s reproductive rights. After graduating I canvassed for the antinuclear group SANE/FREEZE and made phone calls on behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America before turning my attention to gay and lesbian rights, then joining the environmental fight against the destruction of the natural world. The demographic of most protests leaned heavily toward the female gender, while those being protested almost always shared their own set of characteristics: They were primarily straight white men. At the time, I was a white lesbian woman.
