On February 23, I was part of ‘The battle of the feminists’, a panel discussion about different feminisms throughout the ages organized by the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. To me, feminism is a way of thinking; it means paying attention to the normative practices around gender, as well as being sensitive to gender and the intersectionalities of class, ethnicity, age and sexuality. I grew up thinking feminism was about collective action with other carriers of wombs – a politics I was never interested in, precisely because I fail to identify with so many normative gender practices. Reading Judith Butler was a turning point, and henceforth I grew more comfortable with the label ‘feminist’, knowing that it did not need be about the 1970s. Unfortunately, most of the debate focused on such ‘old’ issues as abortion, evil media influences and body hair removal. This, of course, gave rise to a heated debate.