Our individual fashion choices communicate a lot about us

Typical Everyday Feminism.

Being feminist means more than just organizing under the singular goal of “smashing the patriarchy.”

It also means understanding and acknowledging the ways that race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, global location, and citizenship or national identity affect how patriarchy impacts each of us differently.

Funny how it’s only and always feminism that is told to be about everybody else’s concerns as well as women’s. Funny how it’s only and always women who aren’t allowed to have a movement that’s about their own subordination and othering. Funny how it’s only and always women who are constantly offering up their masochistic refusal to say their own movement is about their own oppression.

And what’s all this preliminary self-abnegation in aid of? A po-faced discussion of fashion choices. That’s Everyday Feminism for you – so “intersectional” and so frivolous right at the same time.

It’s no secret: Our individual fashion choices communicate a lot about us both intentionally and unintentionally – from our gender identities and class backgrounds, to our personal beliefs and subcultural affiliations.

Our personal fashion choices also affect the people around us deeply both intentionally and unintentionally as well.

Spoiler: all this heavy breathing is about camouflage clothes. Don’t wear them, because soldiers kill brown people, and that’s not intersectional. That’s what being feminist means.

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