The invisibility of misogyny and its patriarchal global and national structures seem to be uncovered more readily now. Maybe, just maybe, we are in a new moment of possibility - where the visibility is seen, and shared, and challenged by billions of women rising together, against sexual violence, for economic justice, and saving the planet.
Post a tweet for International Women's Day. Embrace women and girls - their bodies, their labour, their love, their "civilian" suffering in war, their hauling of water, their gathering of wood, their amazing creativity, their planting of trees, their protection of the environment, their stand against fracking, their fight to maintain abortion rights and other reproductive freedoms, their bravery in public and private spaces - anywhere and everywhere across this globe.
[WS:] I always have mixed feelings about the International Women's Day tradition - on the one hand, the socialist states made a bold move to break with their rural idiocy traditions, of which patriarchy had been the mother ;), but on the other hand that tradition was fairly well preserved under socialism. I would not agree with the above cited writer that IWD was just "lip service" - I think that socialist countries faced an enormous task of moving their society from medieval backwardness to modernity, and they made considerable progress. In a way they were like a special education student - the fact that the got a C on their score card signifies more progress than an AP student getting an A.
-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."