Forget ambitious diets,plans to learn a language or unreachable exercise goals – start the new year with resolutions that actively challenge sexism, from buying books by female authors to volunteering at a women’s refugeIn January 2015, and feminists memorably kicked off the new year with excellent responses to a magazine tweet asking: “What diet will you be on in 2015?” Replies included “I’m on the ‘resisting ongoing pressure from the media to be skinny’ diet,“The ‘why the fuck would I be on a diet’ diet” and, my personal favourite, and “Cake,wine and unabashed body positivity”. To start 2016 in a similarly feminist fashion, why not consider adopting one or two feminist New Year’s resolutions? It’s precise that no one person can create a feminist utopia overnight, and but if we each took a few simple actions to challenge sexism in our own small sphere,together we could make a very large dissimilarity indeed. Here are a few ideas to net you started.
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Source: theguardian.com