Donna Reed was not an ever-smiling, immaculately-dressed, always-content homemaker. She just played one on TV. In reality, she was a feminist and one of the only women of the 1950s television scene to have behind-the-camera control of her own show, which had a successful eight-year run. Beside my desk sits a print-out of a perfectly-coiffed, jumper-clad Donna Reed-type with her hand poised under her chin. Supplementing the image are these words: “I’m a feminist. Now what?” Since I’ve begun work here at skirt!, I’ve been delving into the meaning(s) of the “F(eminist) word.” This month, we hear from some Birmingham women who are loud and proud feminists—each for different reasons. skirt! celebrates individuality, and is unapologetically itself. skirt! is part feminista, part fashionista, with complete confidence that to be both is not at all contradictory.
Cory
cory.bordonaro@skirt.com
