Photo credit: Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Over the course of writing my book,
Make Trouble, I revisited just about every chapter in my life — from my earliest memories growing up in Texas to the moment of unprecedented women’s activism we’re living through right now. I traveled back in time to my family’s dinner table in Austin, which was never for eating — it was for sorting precinct lists for whichever campaign we were working on at the time. I remembered classmates who joined the very first organization I started back in seventh grade, which we named “Youth Against Pollution.” (Try to think of a more unfortunate acronym, I’ll wait.) I dug through photos of my wedding to my husband, Kirk, a fellow troublemaker I met as an organizer back in New Orleans...