It was my senior year of college, and I’d already finished my required courses for my major, so I decided to expand my horizons.

Learn new things, pick up classes I’d never considered. My course load for fall semester consisted of Tap Dance 101, Intro to Ethnography, Gender and Sexuality, and Intro to Beekeeping.

Gender and Sexuality might seem like a weird choice for a twenty-two-year-old dude who plays Ultimate Frisbee, but I have three sisters who love harping at me about feminism. I was already a self-proclaimed feminist — mostly because I knew it was the right thing to do — but I admittedly didn’t know that much about it.

Well, it was an eye-opener. Lots of sad stuff about oppression and abuse, the patriarchy, and all that, but I also learned some cool historical... Read More