Kathryn White

My interest in the environment and thus my start in activism came early in my life. By 8 years old I was pushing my family to make changes and talking about the future of the planet with everyone I knew. By 10 I had discovered that my attractions were unlike other girls but due to my sheltered and conservative upbringing had no way to understand or express this. I was raised in the Southern Baptist church by my mother and the man she married after I was born, I did not find out he was not my actual father until I came out to them and they decided I was wrong to live as who I knew I was (at 23 years old). This rejection of who I am has led me to create "family" on my own and led to activism about the QUILTBAG community.

Led by the different treatment I recieved in the workplace and in opposition to the way I was raised I became a feminist in my early 20's and stick by those principals in my life. Equality for all people regardless of gender, orientation, race, ability or class.

I did not understand the reason for many differences about me or how I experienced life until later. I was 49 when diagnosed with autism (aspergers).