The scope of SYMBOLIC GEBDER VIOLENCE

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Getting emotional

If it is the hand in and you get works like these, your heart fills with love and pride and hope, plenty of hope everywhere: what we do is worth it. Thank you for the commitment you kiddos!

And still we raise

Last year I went to the African American History Museum in Detroit and their motto was "And still we raise".

Its symbolism is crystal clear: After all the unfairness, mistreatment, discrimination, violence, inequity, judgement and injustice, after all the suffering and misery and pain and agony, they endured. They are strong, they stand, they raise, they fight.

They fight for social justice, they fight for their ancestors, for the dead and the living, for the past and the present, they fight everyday.

And so I understood how important it is to know our past, to know where we are and how we got here, to be grateful for what we have got but to be humble and solidary with those who are not as privileged.

Some weeks ago my mum went to South Africa, you know what she found? Symbolic Gender Violence runs deep in every single bit of land we step on, but still we raise.

It's all around us :0

So I was going to my Gender classes and I saw this on the tube platform: can u see the Symbolic Gender Violence behind this? Honestly I find it outrageous: who are the ones supposed to wait vehind the yellow line?
Worst thing is people didn't notice it AT ALL -.-

International Women's Day: Chronology

1909 The first National Woman's Day was observed in the United States on 28 February.
The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.

1910 The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to build support for achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish Parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.

1911 As a result of the Copenhagen initiative, International Women's Day was marked for the first time  (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded women's rights to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.

1913-1914 International Women's Day also became a mechanism for protesting World War I. As part of the peace movement, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the  last Sunday in February. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with other activists.

1917 Against the backdrop of the war, women in Russia again chose to protest and strike for "Bread and Peace" on the last Sunday in February (which fell on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar). Four days later, the Czar abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.

1975 During International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating International Women's Day on 8 March.

1995 The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap signed by 189 governments, focused on 12 critical areas of concern, and envisioned a world where each woman and girl can exercise her choices, such as participating in politics, getting an education, having an income, and living in societies free from violence and discrimination.

2014 The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) – the annual gathering of States to address critical issues related to gender equality and women’s rights — focused on “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”. UN entities and accredited NGOs from around the world took stock of progress and remaining challenges towards meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs have played an important role in galvanizing attention on and resources for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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