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Commentary I

Maggie Ramage
Instructor, Career Skills, College of New Caledonia

Your article is truly impressive. Not only is it easy to read, honest and refreshing, it's a very helpful piece of research. Through sharing your experiences you have really helped me to clarify the difference between "feminist" and "woman-positive" - something I didn't even know I was struggling with until I read your article.

I really echo your comments that reflection is a tremendous privilege and a very helpful process. To have that opportunity to do so with a friend and colleague is wonderful. Our department certainly is fortunate to have those opportunities.

Your writing is so "user-friendly." I had the feeling I was right with you in your observations, reflections, and struggles. Your honesty about the struggles and learnings helped me to be "in" the story.

If I had one critique, I guess it would be that I found some of your reflections unnecessarily self-effacing. I tried to make specific comments on post-it notes so you could respond to my responses.

Once again, thanks for sharing this piece with me. Hope my comments are helpful.

Commentary II

Jenny Horsman
Advisory Committee, Women and literacy research project

Your piece of writing and reflection encouraged me to think both about the women and literacy project and about my own work in literacy and around women's issues. Perhaps the point which resonated most strongly with me was your awareness that you had not really been bringing your feminism into the classroom and that to do so you had needed permission. I think it is a crucial point for feminist literacy workers to question ourselves on, and examine how we can make sure our feminism is present in such a way that it will encourage other women, and men, to explore their own attitudes and experience of the world and push us to continue to question our own attitudes in the light of other people's experience.