University towns are annoying
Queer? Feminist? Not a part of the university? Well tough luck. You will not have an opportunity to be a part of the community. If you do manage to break your way in to a group, you will undoubtedly be faced with a bunch of 19 year olds with little to no grasp of theory or history. There is no such thing as a group of young professional feminists meeting at a coffee shop, or adult queers having a forum. I feel completely shut away from "my people" the further away I get from graduation. I went to a feminist book club meeting (on campus, which I found out about from a student), and even though not everybody there was a student, I was just incredibly turned off by the amount of 101 that had to happen. I miss undergrad, where I could go to my OW and Q&A meetings and actually feel like part of the group.
If there are groups out there, I don't know how to crack them.
If there are groups out there, I don't know how to crack them.