Changing the Fight

After three years of lockdowns, a year of war and revolution that is inching ever closer, of insurrections and unrest, of watching governments from Iran to the United States enact tighter and tighter controls over women’s lives, racism and right wing fascism on the rise, it feels like we’re going backwards instead of forwards.

It feels… exhausting.

But this year is not like the others. We have had our eyes opened to the faulty power of governments, to the self-centeredness of billionaires, to the tangible harm that climate change is causing. We have seen, and we have learned.

And one of the the most important things we’ve learned is that spending our time trying to convince those in power to change has been getting us nowhere.

So we’re changing the fight.

The questions we’re asking this year are not about challenging patriarchal stereotypes of women’s gender roles, and the ways our cultures demand we keep changing things because we’re never enough (pretty, thin, smart, etc), which have historically been effective ways to keep us distracted by the impossible task of becoming “enough”… and that leaves us vulnerable to violence and oppression.