From personal experiences to Beyoncé and everything in between, people have found feminism in lots of different ways.
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We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share their stories about what sparked their feminist awakenings. Here are their powerful responses:
I started following a girl on Tumblr who happened to be a feminist; I read almost everything she posted about feminism and it just made sense. It clicked. I realized some of the ideas I had grown up with were really toxic and there is so much internalized misogyny in most girls.
—rebecar48b2681fd
When I was walking downtown with my mother and a stranger grabbed my crotch, I was in shock. My mother called the cops and when I went to make a formal complaint I was asked what was I wearing and then I was told "just touching" me was not a crime. I was a teenager, and I didn't know it was feminism back then, but I just knew that no one should say it's OK to touch another person's genitals just because they didn't rape you, regardless of what you're wearing.
—Paulis Grienssen (Facebook)
