Feminist Family Christmas: Part Seven

A final taste of different sorts of feminists, their families and the festive season. This one is crowdsourced using an online survey from my own Twitter feed and also this website. Everyone was asked the same questions and given room to type whatever they wanted. I’ve selected a handful of quotes that I thought were interesting, relevant or in certain cases just made me smile or feel all festive… This means they are kinda jumbled, but I like that as it shows the commonalities, particularly the focus on our families – whatever they look like!

Needless to say, this sort of behaviour is why I will never be a proper writer or journalist.

“I celebrate Christmas as a practising Christian.”

“I’m originally from Poland. I’m not flying home this year because I don’t have any days off left because of my studies.”

“I am a 23-year-old disabled feminist who lives alone in council housing. I am unemployed due to my disability and spend a lot of my time homebound.”

“Too much to do w/ career/cuts this year to get involved in capitalistic nonsense this year. Merry Christmas!”

“Spending the weekend before Solstice with partners’ parents and the rest of the Christmas time at home.”

“I enjoy pink products! … But ideally, I’d like to be able to enjoy them were I male, too, without negative comment!”

“For various reasons we can’t get to our families, so we’re all doing Christmas together. We’re going to prep the food on Christmas Eve, then have dinner and stockings the next day, and generally be relaxed.”

“I have honestly never really considered Christmas as being stressful for feminists but that’s because my dad was always pretty involved and my partner does a lot of the cooking.”

“I bought a card for my younger brother who is currently working in France because I know he’s getting homesick.”

“Last year I wrote poems for the people closest to me.”

“Will probably end up at my local arts centre, buying quirky crap.”

“I guess I feel the need to try and take some pressure off my Mum because she always seems to get very worked up about Christmas, she has the longest holiday so has always done more of the preparation.”

“The way children’s toys are so aggressively segregated by gender worries me and I often think about how I will work this when and if I have children of my own.”

Thank you to everyone who contributed – either by responding to my emails, phone calls and texts, posting on the survey or pinging me on Twitter. I’m always excited by the range of people who connect with BadRep and hope that you all have an awesome holiday!