Ain't I a woman?

http://tgnotwhatyouthink.blogspot.com/2009/04/aint-i-woman.html
4/24/09

I watched a video yesterday that I found on Feministing . In the video, a woman named Kelly Corrigan read a tribute to her mother's special group of female friends and to the community of women in general. As one commenter correctly noted, this was a particularly white, suburban view of female solidarity, but it was no less true for being only one aspect of what exists.

I cried as I watched it, not only because it was a moving tribute but also because I am still outside such a beautiful circle. I have been welcomed by cis women of all kinds, gay, straight, and who-knows. I have been included, and I have been treated like any other woman. I will never stop being grateful for that. At the same time, I came late to this party. I don't have a circle of female friends with whom I grew up or that I developed in my youth and young adulthood. I don't have that connection to women's community yet.