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International Women's Day 2015
Mon, 2015-03-02 19:32
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Maysie
International Women's Day 2015
Mon, 2015-03-02 19:42
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Maysie
International Women's Day: Reclaiming our bodies, our territories, our communities
In Toronto, this year's International Women's Day rally will be opened by Elder Wanda Whitebird of the Mi'kmag Nation. As an activist with No More Silence she has frequently spoken out for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. She says:
"Harper's government made an apology about residential schools, but Harper won't acknowledge the role of the state in the past genocide of Indigenous people… We can't bring the murdered women back but we need to reveal the truth about what happened with them."
This truth includes vast inequality where 40 per cent of Aboriginal children are living in poverty in Canada compared to 17 per cent of non-Aboriginal children. When children are living in poverty it is always an indicator that families are dealing with poor employment options and inadequate housing. This situation is worsened by ongoing cuts to services at federal, provincial and territorial levels. In the last 25 years, as funding for health care and social services has continued to decline, women and trans people are facing increased inequality.
This year's IWD carries on the tradition of global social movements that have brought these issues of injustice to public attention for over a century. The priorities of governments that fail to respond to the needs of our communities and territories will continue to be challenged as across the country, IWD marks the launch of the World March of Women, culminating in Montreal on October 17.
Sun, 2015-03-08 22:08
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Maysie
Happy IWD!
Self-Love Amidst Marginalisation
This piece is for every woman who suffers at the hands of a white supremacist, cissexist and ableist heteropatriarchy, and for every woman who has suffered at the hands of colonialism and continues to suffer at the hands of Western imperialism.
This piece is for marginalised women. For women of colour. For trans women. Queer women. Gender non-conforming women. For women of religious minorities. Disabled women. Women who have suffered trauma or illness. Migrant women, who know the pain of leaving homes and the strength it takes to build new ones. Indigenous women. Displaced women. Women who have seen poverty and violence. Women abroad facing exploitation by our own corporations. Women seeking asylum, waiting indefinitely in barbaric conditions imposed by our own governments. Working class women. Homeless women. Single women. Polyamorous women. Married women. Women who are waiting for the right to marry. Women forced to marry against their will. Widowed women. Women in refuges. Women with children. Women who can’t have children, and women who choose not to. Women who work. Women who are unable to land jobs due to discrimination.Women underpaid in the jobs they do hold. Women who feel alone. Women who are any and all combinations of the above.