![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “One Big Campus,” Steinem recalls how she and black feminist poet Margaret Sloan visited Texas Woman’s University in Denton at the request of a student delegation in 1972. “If you’re lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,” she said patiently, “you don’t send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. Steinem describes her days on the road alone and with speaking partners like the quotable, charismatic black civil rights lawyer Florynce Kennedy, who taught her not to fight discrimination with boring statistics. If she had to name the most important discovery of her life, Steinem says, “it would be the portable community of those talking circles: groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.” Groups, incidentally, that birthed the feminist movement. ![]()
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