i had a major crush on avril lavigne yes
hey we're the cast of moxie and this is my teenage self it looked so different uh than it does now
when i was a teenager but what it meant to me was probably the same which was equal rights
equal pay equal access and women feeling empowered to do whatever they wanted to do
and and to have a system that supported that it was one of my largest causes while i was in school
was talking about feminism but the importance of intersectionality when we talk about feminism um
and how as women there is unity and camaraderie and empowering each other but how there's also
different patterns of oppression as a result to you being in a different socioeconomic status or
race or identity in your womanhood so women empowerment and feminism and intersectionality
has always been important to me so it meant the world as a teenager and now i remember crying
in class once arguing about feminism and that was the first time that i realized damn this
is something that really hurts for me because i think i'd never been confident enough to like
say it and believe in it um that it was a problem because i always wanted to believe
that i could overcome anything or like i could do anything but then you realize like i am a woman
and being born as a woman like there are things that you're born into and systems you're born into
so for me it was a lot of rage i remember the first time i heard about feminism it was
on a school bus and i think i overheard it from a group of boys talking about it and they were like
yeah it's women who hate men and they don't like men and uh they're against men and i was like
but i thought feminism was a good thing i thought of inequality and and started with me just like
questioning those things and feeling bad because for i think i thought feminism was something
different and i remember that was the first time i think i heard the word and really processed it
um and then i think it was discussed between female friends a lot but never really in the
classroom um about what it meant to be a feminist just between friends but i don't remember it being
talked about if i was a woman saying anything you can do i can do and i'm over here like
yes you can right that's how i was raised basically growing up
i kind of grew up with very powerful female figures in my my family um you know my grandmother
who started the special olympics and and um and always kind of felt that that uh women should
have their own voice and and needed to go out and use it and could go out in the workspace and and
uh you know create movements and and you know she was one that that really taught me you know about
kind of moxie and having moxie and about feminism and my mom is obviously you know does tons of
work with female empowerment had the whole women's conference which was the largest female empowering
conference in in the united states and and i went to that for years and years and years growing up
and when she was first lady of california and uh you know driving and creating initiatives for
for female empowerment and feminism so for me i kind of grew up with with a lot of that and and um
learned the the importance of uh feminism and and female empowerment and respecting the female boys
i was like a super internet art kid growing up and i was very involved with like the furry community
when i was like 11 and 12 and i later found out later in my life i'm like oh that was a
there's like some sexual part that i didn't know about because i was 12. silly bands
for sure first what are silly bands dude there's like those like bracelets that like
they like come in like a little shape like a dino dinos like they come as like a dinosaur but then
you just put it on and it's a bracelet snake i had so many i was stocked up on those things dude
you don't have the amount of time for the embarrassing things i trends i mean this is
the 80s so it was big hair and shoulder pads and you know we all look like we were working women
with big sneakers getting off the subway i mean just ever the style was intense
and i fell victim to all of it or i should say i enjoyed all of it because at the time i i really
felt pretty fresh probably like certain hairstyles like i tried to put the bump in the front with the
hair out like kind of that snucky type thing yeah and i was a cheerleader so it was just
that wasn't cute probably certain style trends at the time like like like the flannel around
the waist with the skinny skinny jeans like girl you oh yeah yeah that's not cute like
you can't move i was definitely a crocs wearer so um i i think i owned three pairs not one not two
but three pairs of crocs and i wore them for a while and that was a trend i fell victim to
and um i loved it and i still love my crocs i had the the kind of swoop the bieber swooped down with
the hair and i had this middle part avril lavigne i made your crush on ever living yes good one
she was a freaking rock star he played her on snl that was a lot of fun really
i'm a punk rocker i'm wearing a boy's tank top look at my mad face i used to have a crush on
a character in general hospital played by john stamos called blacky parish and he was 18 and he
was like a bad boy who came to the hospital and i ended up meeting him as a as a woman
as a grown woman and that was really exciting because he i think he was deep in my psyche
yeah easy my celebrity crush growing up was professor mcgonagall from harry potter for sure
never met her but you know professor mcgonagall not hermione watson this other army uh i say
i'm like a mix of uh hufflepuff and gryffindor i see that you know i don't got no slytherin in me
there was some like emo character on degrassi if anyone remembers his name that was the love of my
high school life we can get you to meet we can make it happen i don't know man i don't know man
it's always guy fury he's my celebrity crush he's the he's probably the i think i've asked
two celebrities in my life for a photo and he was he's he's up there um i just want to be him
i want to do everything with him i want to be him i want his hairstyle i want his everything i want
his jewelry i want his his car this everything i was super young but jaden smith and karate kid
i like the cornrows to the back
yeah and like his mama was taraji b henson and he was kicking butt yeah thanks for checking
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