Thoughts For International Woman’s Day

Technically IWD is not until tomorrow, but just about everyone is doing their thing today instead, if only because of the transport problems on Sundays. I’m grateful for that, because getting to Bristol on a Sunday is not easy.

Of course I have this sinking feeling that IWD is going to be mainly another occasion for cis white women to do amazing things for other cis white women. I’ve seen some buzz on social media about a new “let’s promote women” thing that Lauren Laverne is launching called The Pool. It is all very coy right now, but I’m not signing up to it to find out more because I’m pretty sure one of the first things I will find is a Trans Women Not Welcome sign, like has happened with just about every other feminist initiative in the UK over the past few years.

However, we have to keep plugging away the best we can. And in that vein here is something of mine that went up at Bristol 24/7 last week when I was drowning in LGBT History Month stuff and thereby slipped my notice. It is all about putting an end to sexism.