Feminism has been a word used by plenty and has interpreted many different meanings over time. Same with gender, it’s changed over time, and so has the understanding people have of it, I included. By reading these, I have learned a lot of things I might’ve been ignorant of in the past. I never really understood the idea of gender because I thought it was only connected to the biological sex someone is assigned at birth. I learned a lot about Intersex people and some of the things they have to go through if they have some more complicated variants that could affect their health. It helps you learn that your sex chromosomes affect who you are when developing. I think that I’m still going to have a hard time wrapping my head around everything because I am slow. It will take some time for me to understand feminist politics, but I did have a lot of fun learning about sex and gender and how it works. In many Hispanic/Latinx households, most of the older generation doesn’t understand the idea of feminism and what it stands for. Many of them just think they are angry and hate men, which I used to think (not anymore, though, I was just confused). The same way with gender, many people don’t get it while many do. It takes time to learn how these all work and learn about your self-identity. I’ll be honest, I’ve had an identity crisis plenty of times, and I’ve cried because of the things I have to go through every time I go outside. It’s annoying and exhausting.
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This is tough stuff to wrap your mind around when you first encounter it. Don’t feel bad about that! And I think we are all learning about ourselves all the time. I’m happy to talk with you about this in relation to gender. I recently had some big changes in my life and rethought who I am. It’s hard and it’s painful and tears are a good way to release some of that.
Also, while in Latinx households older generations may struggle to understand. However, there are Latinx feminists of that generation, too. Gloria Anzaldua, Cherie Morago, Dolores Huerta, Sonia Sotomayor, to name a few. Maybe you can find some inspiration in them