I tire of the Women’s Day and Month narrative that revolves solely around the survival of gender-based violence as if we are not whole people with aspirations that go beyond this.
I received a few “happy Women’s Day” wishes this week, with slogans of how women are strong, beautiful, resilient and carry the world on their shoulders, etc. None of these moved me, except one: a quote from Burkina Faso’s slain revolutionary president Thomas Sankara, who met his death at the hands of his then-trusted friend and right-hand man Blaise Compaoré.
Most who are familiar with Sankara’s legacy know he was a champion of women’s rights and of women’s empowerment. His approach to this is what gave me pause for thought. I found it interesting that a man born in 1949 chose such a progressive way to articulate women’s empowerment.
I fully agree with hooks. I find it not only patronising but insulting to have to accept that to be a woman is to be in a state of constantly overcoming adversity and pain meted out by a patriarchal society hellbent on our oppression. This is a distraction from the actual business of the day, which is to endeavour to live full, thriving lives that do not centre on being a receptor of violence and pain.
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