01/03/2026
Get your ovaries out for IWD2026! Whether you’re “rebalancing the scales” or “giving to gain” — cute slogans don’t change rigged systems.
Let's stop self-caring ourselves into oblivion while centuries of design keep cashing cheques on women’s time, bodies, and unpaid labour.
We’ve been trained to treat womanhood as a problem to manage: medicalise motherhood and childbirth, monetise “good mother” performance, fetishise youth, and when powerful men exploit it the system looks away, then we’re told to “cope better” when we inevitably burn out.
The last 10 years just made it faster, louder, and always-on.
It’s not your biology, it’s the bureaucracy
It’s not your hormones, it’s the hierarchy.
It’s not your cycle, it’s the culture.
It’s not your mood, it’s the machine.
It’s not your resilience, it’s the ridiculous workload.
It’s not your capacity, it’s the conditions.
It’s not your stress response, it’s the system design.
It’s not your self-control, it’s the setup.
It’s not your burnout, it’s the business model.
It’s not your mental load, it’s the missing support.
It’s not your coping, it’s the constant extraction.
It’s not your confidence, it’s the cost.
It’s not your “overthinking”, it’s the overload.
It’s not your energy, it’s the expectations.
It’s not your discipline, it’s the double standard.
It’s not your self-care, it’s the structural neglect.