International Women's Day. A day for everyone. The campaign theme is #BEBOLDFORCHANGE. A quote taken from their website, to explain the day, is this "International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity."
I have signed up for support. And when doing so, because you can too, you can choose between different areas to take bold actions in. There are: challenging bias and inequality, campaigning against violence, forging women's advancement, celebrating women's achievements, and championing women's education. I chose the last one, championing women's education, since education is something I feel very strongly about. I am one of (when I signed up it's a lot more now) 45,301 people who wish to take action. Pictured right/above is my screen after I stepped forward for education. And you can too, just go to the IWD website and #BeBoldForChange.
And to be clear, this day is for all women, and all people in general. No one is discriminated from this event, because that's not right. We all need to start praising the wonderful things in women, from their education to their work and everything in between. I love this day, and I'm glad that more people are fighting for this. It's time we pulled ourselves harder out of this misogynistic hole.
With that comment, I'm not a hater of men, truly. But, it's a rut our country (and others) have that we value men (mainly of the white skin color) more than we do our women and our citizens who are minorities/POC. Today is one of the key rungs of the ladder to achieving our goal of equality.
À bientôt!
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