Feminists: What Were They Thinking? -

The air in the community center was thick with the scent of mimeograph ink and cheap coffee. It was 1972, and Elena sat in a circle of twelve women, clutching a handwritten flyer that asked a single, provocative question: What are you thinking?

Decades later, Elena watched her granddaughter lead a boardroom meeting. The younger woman didn't have to ask for permission to exist in that space; she simply occupied it. Elena smiled, knowing exactly what those women in 1972 had been thinking. They were thinking of her. Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

The world looked at them and saw "troublemakers." But inside their meetings, they saw architects. They were thinking about a world where a daughter’s birth was celebrated as loudly as a son’s. They were thinking about a future where "equality" wasn't a slogan, but a lived reality. The air in the community center was thick