From interacting with their students, many teachers are aware that the concepts of feminism and environmentalism can conjure up impoverished, deficient, and equally painful stereotypes. For some college students, feminism can mean merely equal pay for equal work. Environmentalism may trigger similarly limited associations, but inevitably "treehugger" is what sticks in the minds of most media-saturated, generally stereotype-accepting students. This author contends that those definitions are powerful defaults, and as a Freire-influenced teacher, an ecofeminist, environmentalist, and an inculcator of critical reading, thinking, and writing skills, she feels she must structure courses that invite students to reflect on and reconsider the ideologies they are shaped by and may unconsciously contain and reproduce. (Contains 1 note.)