{"id":2559,"date":"2016-04-10T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/10\/how-to-say-i-do-to-a-feminist-wedding\/"},"modified":"2016-04-10T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:11:45","slug":"how-to-say-i-do-to-a-feminist-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/10\/how-to-say-i-do-to-a-feminist-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to say &#039;I do&#039; to a feminist wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feminist-wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzA1L2NkL0ZlbWluaXN0V2VkLjgyYmY2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/077563b9\/af1\/Feminist-Wedding.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=How+to+say+%27I+do%27+to+a+feminist+wedding&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F10%2Ffeminist-wedding%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F10%2Ffeminist-wedding%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Millions of people marry every year, among them feminists who want to embrace the ritual but disavow its historical connection to stripping women of their freedom and rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a tricky, deeply personal balance, one that some critics say is impossible to strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/19\/how-to-raise-a-feminist-child\/\">How to raise a feminist child <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet if feminists refused to participate in traditions or institutions that treated women poorly, they couldn&#8217;t meaningfully participate in society. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why feminists like Liz Susong have decided to reclaim the act of marriage so that it reflects their values and beliefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is that there are a lot of women and men who are feminists who also choose to get married and plan weddings,&#8221; says Susong, editor-in-chief of the feminist publication\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystwedco.com\/magazine\/\">Catalyst Wedding Magazine<\/a><\/i><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/10\/feminist-wedding\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/marriage\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/lifestyle\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lifestyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/wedding\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Wedding<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gender-equality\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gender Equality<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gender\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gender<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/nfGp0T-4H8U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people marry every year, among them feminists who want to embrace the ritual but disavow its historical connection to stripping women of their freedom and rights.\u00a0 This is a tricky, deeply personal balance, one that some critics say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/10\/how-to-say-i-do-to-a-feminist-wedding\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1161,1767,788,1766,1711],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gender","tag-gender-equality","tag-lifestyle","tag-marriage","tag-wedding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}