HOW TO MARKET ANTICAPITALIST FEMINISM: The Making of an Online Socialist Agenda

As an aspiring writer in my early teen years, I reluctantly devoured women’s magazines. Seventeen magazine was my bible. Every month I religiously ran to the mailbox to retrieve the newest issue, pop open the glossy cover, and view the contents. In spite of my excitement, staring into the faces of the celebrities posing on the cover didn’t feel very empowering. As I turned the pages, I would compare myself to the women on them. I was enthralled with the toxicity of it all: I wanted to take all of this advice and be deemed perfect according to their standards,