Happy International Women's Day

March 8 is Worldwide Women's Day. I imagine you will find as a number of ways to discuss Worldwide Women's Day as you will find women on the planet. The UN's theme for IWD 2013 is "A promise is really a promise: Here we are at action to finish violence against women." The Worldwide Women's Day 2013 theme is "The Gender Agenda: Attaining Momentum." I talk about gendered violence every single day, and I haven't got much to state, truthfully, about attaining momentum, with the exception that it feels sometimes like we're and often like we are sliding backwards. So goes progress, I guess.So I will mark Worldwide Women's Day 2013 with something which Personally i think is central to any or all progress for ladies, such as the finish to gendered violence, which is really a challenge to all of us all to like, respect, and trust women.This past year about this day, I authored: Today is really a day after i am angry, but, also as with other days, it's a day which I'm happy to become a lady among women.I don't lengthy to become the Exceptional Lady. After I find myself inside a space by which I'm the only real lady, I don't feel satisfied, nor will i feel insecure: Personally i think contemptuous there aren't more women there. I don't want to contend with other women in ways that indicates there's only room for just one people. I wish to pick up other women, and become lifted up by them, and blaze trails hoping that lots of more follows behind.I respect women, and that i love them. So when I size up all of the issues disproportionately affecting women around the world, things i see is insufficient respect and passion for women so pervasive and profound that to basically assert to respect and love women yet remains a radical act.To respect and love women yet remains a radical act. And thus does having faith in women to help make the best options on their own, to think that ladies are their very own captains who don't need to get their options legislated nor pushed through public judgment. I really like women. I respect women. I trust women. Not in certain distant method in which goodies these phrases as self-apparent findings that any decent person would agree, but because a romantic proactive approach rooted within the recognition when everybody really did accept individuals findings, we wouldn't require an Worldwide Women's Day.I really like women. I respect women. I trust women. Not included in some abstract, theoretical feminism but included in an applied, practical feminism that urges me to like by nonjudgment, respect by listening, trust by supporting individual options. I really like women. I respect women. I trust women. Including myself. And That I request the people around me love, respect, and believe me, too.I really like women. I respect women. I trust women. And i'm angry these remain radical practices. But it's in the intersection of my anger in the mistreatment of ladies and my love, respect, and trust on their behalf which i find my motivation every single day.About this day and each day, let's be radical.