Happy Women’s Day, even though the concept of womanhood is so sacred that we should definitely honor and celebrate ourselves 365 days a year.
But let’s not forget that this is not just a celebration we are honoring the struggles of all women for freedom and equality against oppression, phallocracy, and patriarchy. And these struggles, big or small, are daily.
My fat and thin friends, with curves, without curves, with bodies that fit or never fit anyone’s standards.Tall and short, with or without a womb, with two breasts, one or none—with or without disabilities, neurotypical or neurodivergent, with mental resilience or with breaks.
Indigenous, refugees, immigrants, women from every corner of this planet.
Believers, atheists, agnostics, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and those still searching.
Right-wing, left-wing, apolitical, or revolutionaries.
Rich or not, privileged, or without a single privilege. Trans, cis, Heterosexuals, lesbian, bi, queer, lonely, or not, let us rejoice. Not despite our differences, but because of them.
We are all unique. We are all special. Magical and beautiful.
We honor the women who endure, but also those who are tired. Those who shout and those who remain silent. Those who walk the path of equality with the memories of racism on their shoulders. And those who are still fighting for the obvious and the basic.
Today we celebrate all women. Women walking the streets of Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia. Women with accents, with headscarves, in wheelchairs. Trans women fighting for recognition. Women who care, who work, who make history—but also those who are nowhere to be seen. All women. Without asterisks.
Finally, I want to point out something obvious: being a woman doesn’t automatically mean being a mother. Whether a woman ever wants to be a mother is totally her choice, based on her own wishes and life. Today is Women’s Day, after all. Not Mother’s Day. Mothers have another international day exclusively as mothers. I am writing these last lines for journalists on TV channels (…) who present Women’s Day as if it were the same thing as Mother’s Day… We all understand phallocentric propaganda very well…
So, happy women’s day today to all women, to all femininity, without exceptions or asterisks.
