Kitzie Winship's Page

What issues are most important to you?

- Stopping Sexual Assault/Violence against women
- Animal Rights/Ecofeminism
- LGBT rights
- Women's Health issues/ Access to birth control/EC
- Pacifism/Anti-war
- Education

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

volunteer for a rape crisis hotline, started a feminist sketch comedy group (Women Aren't Funny), Radical Cheerleading

What organizations do you love or work with?

Rape Abuse Incest National Network (RAINN), FCW Society, NYC Radical Cheerleaders, Girl Scouts, Paradigm Shift, PPNYC

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

I'm a 26-year-old 1970s feminist living in a post-feminist world trying to make people laugh, believe, and think. Here's to sisterhood today, and peace in our lifetimes!

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

Wow. I've considered myself a feminist from as early as 8th grade when I learned what the term meant (or could mean.) My moment of transition from thought to action occured in college when I experienced first hand how difficult and emotionally taxing it was to obtain Emergency Contraception in Ohio (before its over the counter status) and how much unjust harassment and sexism faced (and continues to face) sexual assault survivors in our own country. I had heard the usual horror stories of sexist doctors and pharmacists, but it wasn't until I needed their help most that the reality of injustice hit home. I spoke out through my writing and later began volunteering for RAINN on their Online Hotline to help others in similar situations realize hope is more than an intellectual ideal. I'm grateful others (like the amazing creators of the Red Tent Women's Project - some of which are Obies?) share this hope.