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Written by Christina Margeti.
Happy and always strong and fighting! Let us never forget that today is not just a celebration, but a day to honour the struggles of all femininities for freedom and equality, throughout time, against oppression, phallocracy, and patriarchy. And these struggles, whether small or large, in the past, the present, and the future, are part of our everyday lives. Curvy and slim, with curves or without, tall and petite, with or without a uterus, with two breasts, one or none, Indigenous women, migrants, women from every corner of the world, believers, atheists, agnostics, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and those still searching. Right-wing, left-wing, apolitical, ecologists, anarcho-autonomists. Wealthy or not, with privileges or without any at all. Let us celebrate ourselves!
At this point, I want to stress something obvious, which should be obvious to some… that being a woman does not automatically mean being a mother. Whether a woman ever chooses to become a mother is purely her personal decision, according to her will and life. Today is, after all, International Women’s Day—not Mother’s Day. Mothers have their own separate international day exclusively dedicated to motherhood. I am writing the last lines so that certain journalists on television channels (…) who present International Women’s Day as if it were the same thing as Mother’s Day will read them… We all understand very well the phallocratic propaganda that ties female identity to motherhood at all costs… So, happy and fighting International Women’s Day to all women, to all femininities, without exceptions or asterisks. Let us celebrate ourselves every day!