Clearly, Gay Marriage Is On The Top

I Think That's Such An Important Message, Especially For Younger Women, To Know, 'i Don't Have To Come Out Of The Womb Painting Like Frida Kahlo. My Very First Thing That I Make Isn't Going To Be An Around-the-world Sensation.' You Have To Paint A Hundred Really Ugly, Barfy, Diarrhea Paintings Before You Come Up With That One Where You Start To Really Get Into Your Groove.

My Mom Was A Housewife, And Wasn't Somebody That People Would Think Of As A Feminist, And When Ms. Magazine Came Out We Were Incredibly Inspired By It. I Used To Cut Pictures Out Of It And Make Posters That Said, "girls Can Do Anything", And Stuff Like That, And My Mom Was Inspired To Work At A Basement Of A Church Doing Anti-domestic Violence Work. Then She Took Me To The Soidarity Day Thing, And It Was The First Time I Had Ever Been In A Big Crowd Of Women Yelling, And It Really Made Me Want To Do It Forever.

Not To Rag On Myself, But When People Say, 'what Does It Feel Like To Be An Icon?' I'm Like, 'my Dog Does Not Think I'm An Icon, My Cat Does Not Think I Am An Icon, My Cousin Does Not Think I Am An Icon.' I Have A Really Lovely Group Of Friends, And I Just Don't Think About It.

Clearly, Gay Marriage Is On The Top Of The Agenda Right Now. It's Pretty Amazing, Considering Where Stuff Was At When I Was In High-school, When There Were No Lgbt Gay-straight Alliances Or Any Of That Stuff. Am I A Huge Lady Gaga Fan? No, But I Think Some Of The Stuff She Does That Helps Lgbt Kids Is Amazing. And It's Great That That's Mainstream. It's Fantastic That There's A Pop Star Who's Willing To Put Herself Out In That Way.

I'm Not Sure Riot Grrrl Would Have Been As Big A Deal If The Internet Had Existed Back Then. Because There's So Much Stuff On The Internet. People Could Have Been Like, Oh, Whatever, I'm Going To Go Look At Pictures Of Barbie Vaginas, You Know What I Mean? There's So Many Different Things On The Internet, You Read One Article And Then You Read Something Linked Off That Article And You Go Down The Rabbit Hole.