The new joy of my life is relearning what feminism really is, and doing so in conversation with GenZ. What I see strongly in young people (my children, their friends and their peers) are kind, wise, and enduring intersectional feminists with the strongest foundations yet to take on and dismantle patriarchal structures.

Throughout my life, I have careered; literally careered from one plot twist to another. A childhood spent overseas led me to become one of a small number of female Physics students at Oxford, which took me to a commission in the British Army, serving as one of the first female officers to be appointed to a front-line engineering role. A series of misguided jobs in finance and retail management led to a retraining as a homeopath, a profession in which I learned a huge amount about people. I now find myself a Senior Leader in Education, overseeing pastoral care, operations and  safeguarding as a Deputy Head in a London primary school. I have seen and experienced a lot; the good, bad and ugly.  I am also a mother of 3, rebuilding her life after the car-crash ending of a 20 year marriage.

I have a lot to say about being a GenX woman in a man’s world, about being a GenX woman in a marriage, about being a GenX mother, about being a GenX woman in a new GenZ world. But even more than what I have to say, I have a lot to learn.