so i'm jennifer baumgardner, and, first of all, i want to thank you for making this book. i think it's meaningful and moving to me to have something that's scholarly that tells the story of people i know and things that i was a part of and kind of writes a book that i wish i had had when i was young and learning about feminism. i feel like i cobbled together all sorts of things because i was so hungry for the history. and to see it reframed in new information and new ways for me to think is really invigorating. i feel like i have a really -- i do think about feminism generationally a lot. not just that way, but it speaks to me, and i think it was because my mom was a feminist. there was ms. on the coffee table and mom saying you shouldn't be a cheerleader. there was this relationship that was about a mom, literally. but i also think it's because this is a visibility issue. so the most visible moments, and even though you destabilize this in the book, the most visible moments around the last 100 years of feminism, when people think about the feminist movement, they think ab