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A job that changed me: Working at a toy store was my teen feminist awakening

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A job that changed me: Working at a toy store was my teen feminist awakening

I loved the business of selling toys – it felt like I was selling joy. But my least favourite part was the gendered languageI was 15 when I landed my job at Toys R Us.

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