How I'm Dressing My Daughter For A Feminist Future

By Raakhee Mirchandani for Elle Magazine

She was inconsolable. The tears were streaming down her face, the stress was palpalable: "I don't want to President, I want to be me!" Satya shrieked, her tiny little face red with worry.

This one was on me. I had laid out a sweet little "Future President" t-shirt, complete with a tutu and a pair of Doc Martens. It was #toddlerswag, #outfitgoals and whatever else moms much cooler than me would call it.

But there was no way Satya, my almost three-years-old with a daily code red level sass alert, was going to take this quietly. She has no intention of ever being POTUS (despite her reputation for carrying around both an Obama and HRC doll) and she wasn't going to put on a t-shirt that said otherwise. It was false advertising and she knew it.