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PEPPER PIKE Feminism is not a dirty word, according to Julie Zeilinger, founder of the blog the FBomb (thefbomb.org).

And it is a little Fd up that some people think that it is.

Zeilinger, 19, is a sophomore at Bernard College at Columbia University in New York City. She grew up in Pepper Pike and went to Hawken School. The feminists first novel, A Little Fd Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word, was published this year by Seal Press.

Zeilingers interest in feminism is not a fad or phase.

I grew up in a feminist household, Zeilinger said. I was raised to believe in equality for others.

This moral belief, Zeilinger said, is at the root of feminism.

It was not until middle school that Zeilinger was introduced to feminism. She was meeting with her guidance advisor, who Zeilinger mentions was awesome. Her advisor told Zeilinger to check out author Jessica Valentis book, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Womans Guide to Why Feminism Matters, and her blog Feministing.com.

Reading Valentis book and blog sparked Zeilingers interest in feminist concepts such as gender equality and human and reproductive rights.

It is depressing that we do not learn more about the feminist movements in high school, Zeilinger said.

Her prescription to this depressing reality was to start her blog the FBomb in 2009. There were no other blogs to fuel conversations about feminism among teenage women.

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