03/09/2026
Yesterday was International Women’s Day.
I celebrated by sewing the pads into my sports bras.
If you wear sports bras, you know the ones.
Those thin little pads that fall out or fold over in the wash.
Then you’re left trying to shove them back through a tiny opening that never quite works.
Most women hate them.
We’ve been saying the same thing for years:
Just sew them in.
But instead of manufacturers listening, we get the same design again and again.
So yesterday I sat there sewing them in myself.
It’s a small thing.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭.
Because when the small things women say get ignored long enough, it tells you something about the bigger things too.
Stop telling women how to dress so bad things don’t happen.
Stop paying women less for the same work.
Stop undervaluing the unpaid labour women carry at home.
And stop pretending women are the problem when the system simply refuses to listen.
Stop letting men take women’s ideas and profit from them.
Stop not believing us.
Stop selling women “stress supplements” when what we actually need is help carrying the load.
And when men cause harm — real harm — stop protecting them. Hold them accountable.
International Women’s Day matters.
But honestly?
I wish it didn’t.
I wish we didn’t need a day to talk about fairness, safety, and respect.
I wish the changes had already been made.
Until then, women will keep doing what we’ve always done:
Fixing things ourselves.
I’d love to hear the small things women have been saying for years that still haven’t changed.
