tiredofbeingignored-deactivated asked: What personal experience made your realize that things were not equal?
I think I realized that we don’t live in an egalitarian society well before any personal experiences really affected me. I read a great deal about social and economic equality and understood it well before I became really active in fighting inequality. I began to grow as an activist when my mother revealed to me that she had been the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of my father. Two years later I found my self in a relationship with someone I truly believed loved me. Though he claimed to love me, my partner began to emotionally and psychologically abuse me and eventually hit me. That day I moved in with my mother to escape him. I already considered myself an activist, feminist, and social critic at that point but after that experience I began to become increasingly active. In order to ease my pain, I turned to literature that discussed issues with gender, race, and class. Within the texts I found my passion, fuel for life and my catharsis.
