THC: There’s been a lot of discussion on why many young women aren’t identifying as feminists. What do you think the problem is? What do you think feminists should do to mobilize young women?

AD: Well, I don’t really think it’s our responsibility to mobilize young women. I think young women should learn to take care of themselves, and I think that they will. And some of them already do. I know lots of young feminists who are very strong and very militant. I admire them greatly. But I think at some point young women will possibly face losing what we gained. And once you face losing it, you have to make a decision about whether you’re ready to lose it or not. And I don’t think young women are going to want to lose it.

THC: How do you save people who don’t think very much is wrong? What hope is there for sisterhood in that scenario?

AD: Well, I don’t know. I don’t know what you do when people don’t think that very much is wrong. I think you try to tell them that very much is wrong. And that’s where first person testimony of women has been so important, because the mainstream will say, oh, that doesn’t happen, and then a group of women will say, well, it happened to me. So it does happen. And I just think that that’s the main issue. The main issue is facing the acts of violence that keep women from having full and generous lives.