Is "Womansplaining" Activism?

In my first Womansplaining column last year (and first ever Sun column!), I went semi-campus-viral for calling the campus sexist in “It’s 2020: Stop Calling Martha ‘Martha’”. This week my night was made when my mom told me that that same column was reposted this week (over a year later) in the Cornell Facebook Parents’ chat. Spoiler alert: your parents agree that we should refer to her as President Pollack.

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The first time I really started getting noticed on campus was through my Womansplaining columns. That was also the first time that people started calling me an activist. A lot of things were happening simultaneously in my life: at that time I was serving as Cornell’s Student Advocate, serving publicly on She’s the First’s Girls’ Advisory Council and beginning my College Scholar Research focusing on feminism and social media. However, when people referred to me as an activist, it was almost always in reference to my columns.

Read the full story in The Cornell Daily Sun.

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