So I did a post yesterday about international Woman's Day... but I thought that I would talk a little bit more about the movement of "A Day Without Women" and some of the activism going on around to support women and equality.
So yesterday many women participated in a "day without women" movement where some woman took off from work- if they were able to- and they tried not to buy things if they could prevent it. There were a few Facebook posts I saw about supporting small female owned businesses and some places giving free coffee and discounts for woman's products or female authors.
Some members of the cast of Hamilton donated a portion of their wages for the night to Dress for Success for Women's day.... and I'm sure they raised a lot of awareness for the charity in the process. They put in an insert in their playbill and they posted it all over their social media pages. Mandy Gonzalez (who currently plays Eliza in the broadway version) has 34k followers alone... so the combined forces of all the social media outlets following some sort of Hamilton account... plus the people in the audience... that's a lot of awareness. So that's good.
I think the taking off of work and not buying anything is a good way to show that women matter a lot... but at the same time... it's not something that's going to work for everyone... so I think the rest of these are great things to do too. I tried to raise awareness for female owned makeup brands... there's a lot you can do... it's an important day and an important month.
So Women's History Month and Black History Month are so important because everyone knows about George Washington and all the founding fathers... but there aren't quite as many stories about women in history. Hidden Figures and even Hamilton I think brought out the importance of untold history into the foreground and people clearly want to hear these stories... so I'm hoping that we'll learn a little bit more and more whenever we hear about these stories.
I also want to point out... these stories aren't always told that well. For example: Rosa Parks. In school we learned that she was a black woman sitting at the front of the bus and she was just "too tired after a long day of work to move." That isn't really the full story. Rosa Parks was an activist beforehand... she knew what she was doing. She knew she would get arrested, but she knew it would make a difference for the movement that she was apart of. So... we really need to pay attention to how exactly we're telling these stories too... because I feel like this is problematic. She didn't move because she shouldn't have had to move... she knew that... it's not right to make anyone move based off their skin color whether or not they were tired. They really need to phrase this better while telling this in schools... just my opinion but I think that is part of the problem.
So yeah. I'm hoping one day we won't need these months. One day everyone will actually be equal and we'll have all this knowledge out there readily to celebrate more than just in the months of March and February. Can we do that please? Lol.
Byeee!
-Shannon
So yesterday many women participated in a "day without women" movement where some woman took off from work- if they were able to- and they tried not to buy things if they could prevent it. There were a few Facebook posts I saw about supporting small female owned businesses and some places giving free coffee and discounts for woman's products or female authors.
Some members of the cast of Hamilton donated a portion of their wages for the night to Dress for Success for Women's day.... and I'm sure they raised a lot of awareness for the charity in the process. They put in an insert in their playbill and they posted it all over their social media pages. Mandy Gonzalez (who currently plays Eliza in the broadway version) has 34k followers alone... so the combined forces of all the social media outlets following some sort of Hamilton account... plus the people in the audience... that's a lot of awareness. So that's good.
I think the taking off of work and not buying anything is a good way to show that women matter a lot... but at the same time... it's not something that's going to work for everyone... so I think the rest of these are great things to do too. I tried to raise awareness for female owned makeup brands... there's a lot you can do... it's an important day and an important month.
So Women's History Month and Black History Month are so important because everyone knows about George Washington and all the founding fathers... but there aren't quite as many stories about women in history. Hidden Figures and even Hamilton I think brought out the importance of untold history into the foreground and people clearly want to hear these stories... so I'm hoping that we'll learn a little bit more and more whenever we hear about these stories.
I also want to point out... these stories aren't always told that well. For example: Rosa Parks. In school we learned that she was a black woman sitting at the front of the bus and she was just "too tired after a long day of work to move." That isn't really the full story. Rosa Parks was an activist beforehand... she knew what she was doing. She knew she would get arrested, but she knew it would make a difference for the movement that she was apart of. So... we really need to pay attention to how exactly we're telling these stories too... because I feel like this is problematic. She didn't move because she shouldn't have had to move... she knew that... it's not right to make anyone move based off their skin color whether or not they were tired. They really need to phrase this better while telling this in schools... just my opinion but I think that is part of the problem.
So yeah. I'm hoping one day we won't need these months. One day everyone will actually be equal and we'll have all this knowledge out there readily to celebrate more than just in the months of March and February. Can we do that please? Lol.
Byeee!
-Shannon
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