How and when did you become a feminist?

Of course, with true equality, the concept of feminism is redundant.

I think for me, being born mid 1960s, I assumed everyone was equal. My mum taught me to see black and Asian people as beautiful and as the oldest child, I was more able than my brother who had an SEN.

My school reinforced the sexed division of DT lessons. Girls did cooking and sewing and boys did woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing. I don't recall caring, because I didn't want to do any of them. I was forced into taking Childcare as an O Level (I didn't go to the exam) which mostly bored me rigid. I was never the maternal type. But the thing I DO remember from it was the nature v nurture debate. I actively tried to bring my DD up as a capable person, in the same way I would have done a boy. She is also a feminist.

Growing up with six brothers was a start, noticing how my mum favoured them without any insight.
When I was young there was a mad American comedy show on TV called, 'My mother the car.' It was a ridiculous premise where a guy's mother died and came back as a vintage car. My mum used to say, 'If I come back I'll come back as a man.' I remember her saying that very clearly. She never saw the irony of giving the girls chores whilst my brothers lorded it over us.
At school girls weren't allowed to do metalwork or tech drawing etc but the boys were allowed to do cooking. We saw it as patently unfair.
We sort of knew about feminism even then but somehow couldn't apply it to our own lives very much.
Only after my children were born did I begin to wave a feminist flag and I am happy to say now so does my daughter.

That's a really good question GagaJo and having thought long and hard TBH I don't know. I think it started with being aware of inequalities and being a feminist before understanding that's what I was, if that makes sense.

I would probably have said I was a feminist when I was quite young, looking back I dont think that was true. I think I became a feminist after the birth of my first child.

Probably in childhood-difference in treatment of the boys in our family started my interest.
School was quite forward thinking for girls there because I did technical drawing and metalwork O levels, along with ‘domestic science’.
Strangely though, the boys weren’t allowed to choose domestic science or needlework or secretarial studies.

I think I was one from the start in that I was aware of inequality and unfairness from an early age.
At primary school, boys did art whilst girls did needlework is an example. There was no choice. At secondary school we were channelled towards being domestic goddesses, sewing, cooking and cleaning. Boys did woodwork and technical drawing.
My parents were keen for me to do well at school especially dad who had won a scholarship to grammar school but couldn't go due to poverty and the need for him to go out to work.
Mum was a traditional Italian mamma and I was expected to help around the house whilst my older brother wasn't.
I finally rebelled when I was 17. I was told to clean his pig sty of a bedroom on my day off from work. I refused. Poor mum was horrified when I told her that he should do it himself!
He didn't, his future wife did it for him!
She saw the light a few years into their marriage and discovered feminism in a big way....as did my brother.

Probably with my mother’s milk. Both my parents believed in equality of opportunity and supported my sister and me and my three brothers equally to achieve what we wanted to achieve.

I became aware of being a feminist after I came across a copy of Spare Rib in a local newsagents, in 1971 or 72.

When I was about 4, my dad said to me that by the time I was grown up there would probably be women ministers and doctors.
I was mystified as to why there weren't already such people.

Hetty58 I could weep for those that fought before us for the rights too many are prepared to just give away in order to " be kind" Don't see too much kindness towards natal females.

I don't think I 'became' one - I'm sure I was born one. Yet still, even now, I'm surrounded by those who just aren't, sadly.