a roommate of mine is going to her graduation this week, she told me at the cerimony only the girls wear the caps. She says the tradition came from women not being able to go on in their education, so the cap signified capping of womens education. It seems so absurb that they would still keep that tradition, and every year women refuse to wear it, and that seems to be fine, but the trandition carries on . . .

I'm off to the first meeting to the gender queers, there will only be five of us at this first meeting, but I have faith when the biwot group started and when the poly group started they only had about five members and now each month you would get about thirty people coming out. Plus I met this women this weekend who is in an Africian Irish Feminist group and they only have 7 members but they have done so much positive work for Africian women living in Ireland. . . .

I'm off :)