Junice Demeterio-Melgar: Kindred Spirit

by Camille Dela Rosa

It starts with a sense that something isn’t right or isn’t fair. You begin to question the logic of privilege. You realize that certain things are denied you and / or expected of you because you are a girl. You think, “This is not right.” You have no name for this sharpening of consciousness, this anxiety, or this confusion at the rupture of your old vision of a simple, just, logical world.

If you are a girl who sought answers to her own questions of identity, if you vowed to do something about prejudice, if upon stumbling across the word “feminism” you felt a door open to cast a light on that part of your mind that was once shadow, puzzlement and doubt, if you are a girl who struggled to fulfill, little by little, the potential of your womanhood, this article is for you.

Meet a kindred spirit, feminist-activist, Dr. Junice Demeterio-Melgar.  (Read full article here)