From my Fridge to the Blog

Our fridge has oodles and oodles of everything covering it. We have crafts and photos, marked homework and tests, emergency phone numbers, a list birthdays for family and friends.... Beside our menu planning wipe board is this purple and white post card from my cousin. The card reads:

"Because woman's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like if more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctors too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're agressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope of don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and... for lots and lots of other reasons we are a part of the women's liberation movement."
-National Student Group London. "Women's Liberation Because..." Northern Sun Mer. 1995. Print.

This Tuesday March 8th is the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day.  A current holiday in the United States of America, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Belarus, Cambodia, Nepal, Uganda, Zambia and Turkmenistan, this was not an event untill 1911, following the decision and plan of action from the 1910 International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, through the United Nations.
Make sure you take the time this Tuesday -as we should be doing every day- to campaign for women's rights and equality, even if it is as simple as sending someone a liberating post card, or passing on the link to this blog post.
-em