I remember she used the word “tautology” several times, which I looked up when I got home to be sure I understood it (I didn’t).  Even post-clarification her words gave me a lot to think about.  I guess I think that what Emily Carter was saying is that the patriarchy tells us to sit down and shut up 24/7/365 and any time you refuse, you’re being a feminist.

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 Last night, Marco Roth asked Emily Carter this question and I desperately wish I had transcribed her entire response.  I don’t want to misquote her but I do remember that the sense of it was that her writing itself, the fact of its existence, is a feminist act.  “When you look at a girl, and she looks back and looks you in the eye, whether she knows it or not, that’s a feminist act.”

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