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Shuirose Valimohamed, School District 57’s vice-chair, explained what feminism means to her, taking into consideration overlapping systems of discrimination. “We all want gender equality, but when it comes down to it, we all need (to ally) with all female genders,” she said, explaining that this should override but still honour individual cultural differences and that these contexts are valuable to creating a solidified understanding throughout the feminist movement. “You have to put that intersectional piece into it,” she said, noting how multiple layers to inequality cannot be wholly swept away by a simplified understanding of feminism. “We don’t have gender equality, but we also do not all have the same playing field as a white feminist.”