Take Back the Tech women have returned for International Women's Day and their great gifs and actions.
They urge all of us to tell our stories about our lives, experiences, and actions about violence against women, and hopefully write our own stories and code!
On this day and other days, I would like to urge you to remember the origins of International Women's Day to honor the women who died in the 1911 Triangle Shirt Waist Fire in New York City. Consider also the women in your everyday lives and their stories of survival, resistance, and perseverance in their homes, schools, work, streets as well as during disasters, wars, garment factory fires (yes they still occur often), internal displacement from ethnic & religious conflicts as well as the good times.
The Take Back The Tech women have developed printable story bands that you can print and write--"let me tell or ask me about my story"
they suggest: Write "Ask me" on the band, and invite people that you meet on International Women's Day to ask about your story. After you have shared your story, give them a band of their own, and ask them to continue telling and listening to stories with other people that they meet. You can also write your story on your band, and send us a picture. We'll put it up on the campaign website to widen the circle.
The Take Back the Tech site also has many useful tools and links for readers with assorted tech talents. Please check out this site!
Other sites and action:
Rising Voices held an International Women's Day Poetry Jam for the Rising Voices Blog Sites. Check out four selected poems from Madagascar, Bangladesh and Colombia as well as photos from Bolivia and Bangladesh.
You can read more poems from Bangladesh on the Nari Jibon blogsite(s).
For more about education and actions on gender abuse and violence against women in the South Asian community, see the Out Against Abuse blogsite.
Go to my earlier post re Southall Black Sisters --an extraordinary shelter-education program in London--and related links to read about their possible closure owing to funding cuts by local council. Please provide support and write a letter of protest.
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