Morganne Ray's Page

What issues are most important to you?

queer rights, trans rights, reproductive rights, and supporting the work that other people are doing to change the world

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

education and art

What organizations do you love or work with?

Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood, Queer Liberation Army

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

Cunt, Manifesta, We Don't Need Another Wave, anything by bell hooks or June Jordan

Career: what do you do or want to do?

Social Worker

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

My academic type skills and interested are presented here www.projectsafeclassroom.org

I also love radical activism, and the use of art as a tool for social justice.

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

My favorite paper I ever wrote was a response to the prompt "How I became a feminist". My paper outlined all of the reasons I was not a feminist (I was irritated by the teacher's assumption that by taking the class I was inherently a feminist) but rather how I "do" feminism, and why I think feminism as a verb is important.

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

My very first undergrad course was Women Studies 101. In it, I was assigned a project that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't seem to get what the professor was looking for. My scope was far too narrow, defining women's issues as only repro rights, job equality and similar issues. I sat with this professor for hours, trying to "get" what she was trying to teach me. Then all of a sudden, my light bulb went on, I could hear what she was saying, and I knew I had found my calling and became a Women Studies major. The rest just followed naturally.