There is a very interesting post on Feministing.com asking readers to vote on feminist icons. And they ask the question, do we even want icons? Do they serve a purpose in this vast ocean of information we swim through every day? I sat and really thought about whose picture on the cover of a magazine would instantly relay to me that this is a feminist and a champion of feminism. From Magdalene to Ginsberg, from Sappho to diFranco, from Gentileschi to Kahlo, Cleopatra to Maloney - I have hundreds in mind whose lives advanced gender equality whether they meant to or not.

But today I think it is not icons we need but an iconic event. We need to shift the expectation of inequality; the natural acceptance of less pay, less respect, injustice, poor education, diminishing reproductive freedom, sexism in all its forms. We need to admit that it is both an impossibility and unreasonable request to put this all on a single human being or even a group of people. Yes, it can begin with a small group of people but now we are tilting at a tipping point.

Feminism has reached as far as it can on the shoulders of individuals and now we must, as a collective consciousness, call for all genders, in all its variations of expression, to offer our services to Mother Earth and manifest equality. Our minds must hold full pictures of the world as we want it to be. As we travel, work and simply live ~ we must posit equality in each step, each action, each intention.

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