femminista: thoughts of a feminist rhetorician

It may be more accurate to title this "why rhetoricat? why not femminista?" but...

1. Rhetoricat:

• because I am a feminist rhetorician, who was first attracted to rhetoric by Andrea Lunsford's Reclaiming Rhetorica
• because by adding a "t" I've merged my name, Cat, with what I study, rhetoric
• because I was trying to come up with a screen name for something and rhetorica was taken and after stumbling on rhetoricat it seemed like a good idea for a domain name

2. femminista:

• because it is the Italian word for feminist and I am an Italian-speaking feminist
• because I identify first and foremost with the label, feminist

3. not femminista:

• because the domain name "femminista" is dedicated to an organization that I've founded for third wave feminists, I did not want to put my personal blog on that domain