OPINION: 'We were not born to be free of the battles but to learn from the generations of activists who preceded us, to build on their successes and failures, to teach the next generation that they have a legacy to carry on,” writes Judith Rosenbaum.
The author, Judith Rosenbaum, with friends from college, chanting, in 1992, Washington, D.C. She writes:"I can mark time by the changing haircuts and T-shirts in photos of the rallies and protests my friends and I attended in every decade."
The author when she was a teacher, with history students, at a march in 2001, and the author with her daughter at the Women's March, 2018, both in Washington, D.C. That activism reflected and shaped our identities as women and as feminists. Our generation holds a particular posture, both entitled and defensive. We were raised to believe that our mothers had fought feminist battles so that we could do anything, be anything.
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