Katie: 26, grew up in Wausau, WI, single mom to 8-year-old Kaitlin (pictured here), works at domestic abuse agency and a captioning company, graduated from UW-Madison in 2006. Definitely a feminist.
“My grandfather had set aside some money for me and my brother and my sister to pursue school, and it’s been gone for a [...]

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Jackie: 22, senior sociology major at UW-Madison, setter on the varsity Volleyball team, raised in the suburbs of Chicago, loves music, wants to be a college coach when she graduates. Is not a feminist because “people think of ‘feminist’ as an extreme position, and I tend not to be extreme about anything.”
“There’s a stereotype [...]

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Jessica: 27, born in Milwaukee, was an education major at UW-Lacrosse, works at a small alternative high school for “at-risk youth” on the South Side, volunteers at Milwaukee’s feminist bookstore, Broad Vocabulary (pictured here). Considers herself a feminist.
“I started volunteering here in the summer, when I was off from teaching. Working here I [...]

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