It's #InternationalWomensDay (#IWD2022 ) & @cgl_119 & I have one thing to say:
#SmashThePatriarchy
There are a whole lot of other things I *won't* be doing today. π
#SmashThePatriarchy
There are a whole lot of other things I *won't* be doing today. π
I *won't* be making lists of inspirational women.
It's not a lack of inspirational women that's the problem. It's patriarachal systems of oppression which prevent those inspirational women being heard, or (worse) prevent women reaching their potential to be inspirational.
It's not a lack of inspirational women that's the problem. It's patriarachal systems of oppression which prevent those inspirational women being heard, or (worse) prevent women reaching their potential to be inspirational.
I *won't* be organising events to get women together to support one another.
It's not lack of sisterhood that's the problem. It's patriarchal systems of oppression which put huge pressure on women's enormous ability to lift one another up.
It's not lack of sisterhood that's the problem. It's patriarchal systems of oppression which put huge pressure on women's enormous ability to lift one another up.
I *won't* be giving a #IWD2022 talk to help some University tick their Athena Swan boxes.
It's not a lack of box ticking that's the problem. Box-ticking does not #SmashThePatriarchy - we know this already.
It's not a lack of box ticking that's the problem. Box-ticking does not #SmashThePatriarchy - we know this already.
I *won't* be engaged in focussed activism, to chip away at a tiny bit of the mortar in the walls of the patriarchy with my little chisel of truth. Not today.
Today, I will say that we need to #SmashThePatriarchy, not slowly abrade it away over 1000 years.
Today, I will say that we need to #SmashThePatriarchy, not slowly abrade it away over 1000 years.
I *won't* be attending a training session to learn to be more confident, more assertive, more loud, more like a man. I won't be training other women to fit the patriarchal mold.
Tomorrow, I will go back to doing some of these things.
Tomorrow, I will get my little chisel back out, and go back to scraping away at the walls of the patriarchy.
Today, it's #InternationalWomensDay, and I'm asking the men who hold power, who can make change with something larger than a little chisel:
What are you doing to #SmashThePatriarchy?
What are you doing to #SmashThePatriarchy?
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