![]() ![]() I was obsessed with this book called Lives of Extraordinary Women. I was really into American Girl dolls. ![]() Meanwhile, all the general courses I had to take as a history major were hyper-focused on men and their contributions in history.Īnd I got really frustrated by that, because as a kid I was really lucky that my introduction to history came through a lot of women’s narratives. It felt like if I wanted to learn about women, or about queer people, or people of color in history, I had to take an elective class that was only taught once every seven years and met in a basement room with no windows. Mackenzie: Oh, where to start? … The most immediate thing is that I studied history when I was in college, and I was constantly frustrated by the lack of minority narratives of all kinds in the mainstream history classes I was taking, but especially women’s narratives. ![]()
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