WildFang on Lafayette in February 2018
THE TIME IS RIPE BY MADELINE VEGA
So much of what I want to say would never fit in a single issue of ADW. For like eight years I’ve collected screenshots and stuck them in a folder labeled “feminism.” The time never seemed right. No one hates white women except white women, so, while all of the problems are real, they seem kind of petty compared to other injustices in the world. This March brought a bunch of headlines to discuss. The CEO of Bumble became a billionaire, ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange while holding her baby—an unrealistic expectation. Stop Asian Hate trended after eight people were murdered
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by a man allegedly trying to tame his sexual addiction. Exoticism was a problem long before that. And the NCAA didn’t seem to be treating women’s basketball in an equitable manner. This Women’s History Month felt like time to take that folder and boil it down to a theme issue. I could go on editing this for another eight years, so instead I’ll say it’s an introduction to begin learning more.
