Thursday, August 26, 2010
Women's Equality Day
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Don't have too much time to blog, but I just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a
HAPPY WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY!
For those of you who don't know, August 26th was picked by U.S. Congress as Women's Equality Day because it was the day the 19th amendment was passed, giving women (though women of color were widely left out) the right to vote. Today marks 90 years.
If you're a reader of this blog, most likely you know the seemingly endless list of reasons as to why feminism is still necessary... the simple reason being, "WE STILL AIN'T EQUAL!" And let me try to make up for a fraction of the exclusion faced by most women by the mainstream feminist movement of the first and second "waves" by saying that equality is not fully achieved until it is achieved for ALL women: women of color, women with disabilities, immigrant women (including undocumented), LBTQ women, etc etc etc.
I realize many modern feminists have issues with the suffrage movement because women of color were largely left out, but instead of dismissing this day altogether, let's shape and reclaim Women's Equality Day to be a day of positivity in which we honor the sacrifices our foremothers* made, while looking ahead to the future and thinking about what we can improve.
What's everyone doing to celebrate Equality Day? I'll be here.
*My computer is telling me this word is misspelled, but "forefathers" is correct. Nice.
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November 25, 2011 at 4:46 PM
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November 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM
Happy women's day sister! we want to be treated in the same way that men are treated, to have the same rights, to be able to get jobs that traditionally are for men and also to be able to buy viagra without prescriptions for women, Go female power!!
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