This is What a Feminist Looks Like

So here I am on Blogger...again...

I have really bad luck with keeping up blogs and as such really struggle to keep them going. I feel that this one may have a chance since I'm really having a hard time with the move...it might help me keep connected on the home front as well as keeping everyone else updated on what I'm doing!

For those that don't know...I've picked up my life and moved it halfway across the country. I left all my friends and family behind in corn-ville USA and headed out to the east coast to try and save the world...er...well, actually...I moved for the job of a lifetime (or at least my own life!). I basically get paid, however minimally, to be a professional feminist. And, as anyone who knows me, knows that this is the perfect job for me!

This "dream job" is working for a leading feminist non-profit as a Campus Organizer for the Midwest and South Central Region. I know...it's a mouthful. I basically help to start and sustain feminist activist groups on college campuses in my region which consists of 11 states and anywhere from 35-50 schools. It's a really amazing job that allows me to travel all over the country speaking about feminism and planning conferences and large-scale events related to feminism as well. Basically it couldn't be a better job for me!

The only down-side to this situation was moving. I'm really excited to be in the nations capitol doing some very political work for a really amazing non-profit, but it's just difficult because everything is so strange, new, and exciting all at the same time. I'm still getting used to my new lifestyle, and my new house, and my new job, and my new "friends". It just doesn't feel quite like home yet. I'm sure it will, but things are always hard at the beginning.

So any comments, advice, funny notions are always welcome! I miss you all back home terribly, but I'm living my dream (for now) and making my own way!