WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT "I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST"




"I Was A Teenage Feminist is funny, bold, makes you laugh, and makes you look at feminism in a new way."

Educational Media Reviews Online


"This film should be a primer for every Women's Studies student, but it is so wise and lively 
that you should bring along your fathers, brothers and boyfriends, too."

St John's International Women's Film Festival


"This film is evidence that feminism - whether second wave, third wave or no wave - hasn't
ceased to be a vital, many-hued movement with something to offer women of any age."
Bitch Magazine


"Shechter starts her film by asking 'where the hell did feminism go?' Happily, she finds it
 - and her journey will make any disenchanted potential-Gloria breathe a sigh of relief."
Jennifer Baumgardner
Co-Author of "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future"


"More proof that feminists do have a sense of humor. Therese has gone ape with us!"
Frida Kahlo & the Guerilla Girls


"The film's fresh approach is perfect for those who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' "
Alison Piepmeier
Co-editor of "Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century"


"You really had an effect here! One group of students made fliers with the dictionary
definition of feminist accompanied by questions like "what's so scary about this?" and 
put them up all over campus! I'm struck by the way your film resonates with all generations 
of feminists, all in their own way."
Laura Micham
Duke University, Sallie Bingham Center On Women's Lives


"I Was A Teenage Feminist has the potential to reach a whole new generation, 
who take their often tenuous gains for granted and too readily dismiss feminism 
as the other "F" word. The film speaks their language, rejecting preaching and dogma 
for clear-headed and entertaining social inquiry  - and a healthy dose of irony."
Paula Kamen
Author of "Her Way: Women Redefine the Sexual Revolution"


"Like a chick version of Michael Moore's Roger and Me, but, luckily, there's no real
villain...Unlike the usual politically correct thinkers who ask this question, Shechter

is actually interested in the answer, and where it comes from."
Debra Pickett
Chicago Sun Times


"Cheerful and straightforward"
John Doyle
Television Critic, Toronto Globe and Mail


"If you missed the revolution, filmmaker Therese Shechter's I Was A Teenage Feminist
is a refresher course in Feminism 101."
Trish Crawford
Toronto Star


"[These issues are] why I'm a feminist and why you should be one, too."
Jennifer Vanasco
Chicago (Gay & Lesbian) Free Press


"I just loved it and I want my almost-34-year-old daughter to see it!"
Eileen Newman
Senior Director of Programming, Independent Feature Project/New York


"I love this film!"
Linda Broker
Director of the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival