Speaking to The Cut, Rowan talked about the wide scope of feminism:
"My first definition of feminism was so small: Men and women should be equal. And maybe that's how you have to learn it, so that it can be more accessible. But then I started discovering Audre Lorde and Angela Davis and all of these intricacies of feminism that were not being presented to me by these white feminist 'icons.' It was only then that I realized how deep it is and how it's more about undoing these walls that we have built around marginalized people — it's not just about women and men. It's . . . undoing patriarchal structures against marginalized people — structures that fight against people of color, that fight against women, that fight against disabled people, that fight against LGBTQ."