Rowan Blanchard Chats About Intersectional Feminism With Teen Vogue

Rowan Blanchard opened up to Teen Vogue about intersectional feminism and her recent expeience at the Women’s March. Rowan, who has been a huge advocate of feminism over the years, had the amazing opportunity to speak at the March In Los Angeles. Highlights from the interview are below.

On was to be fully educated on subject of feminism: “The work to me is really being careful with the sources that we choose to read. A lot of that, in my experience, is learning to read bell hooks and Audre Lorde rather than generic versions of feminism that I was getting about white women. Also, making sure my money was going where my mouth is: going to see movies that represented something I believe in, rather than paying to see a movie that was all white people.”

On how young people can help even when they can’t vote: “What I’m doing a lot right now is I’m spending a lot of time at the bookstore actually, and reading through these sections, looking at authors that maybe I wasn’t directed to in elementary school, and just kind of picking up and seeing what their thoughts are. I notice the more and more I read, the more my perspective gets more inclusive and less singular. So that’s how I approach a lot of it. I want to read Audre Lorde poetry that is radical and I can learn from that. That’s where people can start: reading these things by people that maybe they otherwise would have been scared by, or watching movies that are independent, made by women about radical topics. It’s really important to be conscious of what you’re putting in your system.”

You can check out more from her interview here.