This Redstocking is an iconoclastic bluestocking who often wears red, gave birth to two daughters at home, and is wittily bipolar. I attended consciousness-raising groups organized by the Redstockings, a NYC radical feminist group, in the late 60s and early 70s I am far more a grandma than a radical feminist, but I wanted a unique google search identity. I am the mother of 4 Obama-supporting grown daughters, the grandma of one grandson. Two more grandchildren are due this year. My English husband, a month older than Obama, is blissfully ignorant that I am a dried up crone. Having 5 younger brothers made me a feminist and opened my eyes to misandry. Although I have been an editor, public librarian, and social worker. I excel at working for free. Fortunately my only essential piece of plastic is my library card. I was born the day after Trinity, and my first husband, a radiation physicist boasted that I was his personal Manhattan Project.
I ambivalently supported Hillary in the primaries and am now frenetically blogging for Obama trying to muster up real enthusiasm for his candidacy..
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