It’s International Women’s Day, a holiday first celebrated in 1909 in honor of a 1908 strike by women garment workers in protest at their working conditions. Now, it’s a holiday endorsed by the U.N., which has set the 2010 theme as “Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all.”
While the holiday gets little attention in the U.S., people in other areas of the world whoop it up, as evidenced by the many events listed on this slightly more commercial International Women’s Day site. (There are 238 events IWD events listed for the U.K., but only 124 in the U.S..)
I’m all about celebrating women here at Mombian, though, so here’s a topic for discussion today:
How has either being a mother or being LGBT changed your awareness and/or involvement in women’s rights and issues?
Being queer certainly complicates my involvement in women’s rights issues, which I feel still largely fails to look at women in a complex way.
All women, happy happy happy I. W. D. !!