07/03/2022
• International Women’s Day •
It’s a beautiful thing to celebrate our circle. I always message my women on International Women’s Day coz I have some badass ones in my circle.
But that’s not the point of IWD.
While we celebrate the incredible women in our lives, it’s important to acknowledge the women who might not be in our lives, the ones who have been deprived of opportunity, education, freedom, a voice, equal pay, bodily autonomy, and human rights.
IWD cannot be just a celebration of how far our small circle has come, when the world is still so unequal and the patriarchy still so ingrained. For those of us with the means to do so, we need to continue to petition, to donate, to march. We need to listen, and we need to advocate alongside without speaking over or on behalf of. IWD is about fighting for gender equality and justice and we are so far from that on a global scale.
For Black women and women of colour, disabled women, trans women, fat women, elderly women, women in poverty, women in forced labour, women in refuge, women in direct provision, women in crisis pregnancy, women with chronic illness, women with mental illness, women fighting for equal pay, women fighting for redress, women who can’t leave, women who don’t report, women who aren’t believed.
This day is about all of us, not just some of us.
