I’m sorry, Rory Gilmore, but you’re not my favourite bookish female TV character. (You’re actually way, way down the list). That accolade is reserved for an eight year old cartoon girl with yellow skin. Because Lisa Simpson helped me, and thousands of other little girls of the millennial generation, fall in love with feminism.

As an eight year old girl, aspirational characters of your own age are hard to come by. The Disney Channel seemed to exclusively document the lives of angelical American high schoolers, and frankly my mum was not happy with me taking cues from Tracy Beaker.

But in Springfield, there existed a girl who was not only my age, but spoke like a damn adult. Here’s how the smartest girl in Springfield became one of TV’s greatest feminist heroes.