On Tuesday, March 7 (today), at 21.00, we announce from our Facebook and Twitter accounts: #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Subject: 15th March 8 Feminist Night March
Place: Taksim, in front of the French Cultural Center
Date: March 8, 19.30
Who: Women, LGBTI+ people; closed to cis men
#FeministGeceYürüyüşü #8M #KadınGrevi #Hayatıİstiyoruz
We join the call for the International Women’s Strike from Turkey #ParoInternacionalDeMujeres
Call to the march and support for the strike: https://youtu.be/r4VFhjBisME
Every year, more and more women shout our rebellion against patriarchy, heterosexism and male violence at #FeministGeceYürüyüşü.
Long live March 8! Long live March 8! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
There can be no justice without equality #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say we claim our lives #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Leave the housework, let the world stop #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We reject the sexist division of labor at home, at work, in the streets and in every area of life #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Abortion is a right, the decision is women’s #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We’ve strayed from the straight and narrow, here we come #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
There’s nothing to eat in the fridge, there’s rebellion in the streets #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We owe children neither to men nor to the state #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Prince on a white horse, don’t bother coming! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Our bodies, our lives, our decisions belong to us! Keep your family! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We are women, not the family! We are in feminist rebellion! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Prevent murder, not divorce #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Women are women; your father is a flower #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
March 8 is a day of rebellion, not flowers. Women are in feminist rebellion #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Who I have loved, who I have had sex with. What’s it to anyone! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Not every woman becomes a mother. Certainly not by force #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
If I say it’s over, it’s over. Get off my back #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
I live with girls and boys, with other women. What’s it to anyone! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We will build the future through our feminist rebellion and solidarity! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Once we’ve taken to the streets, we will not turn back. Women are in rebellion #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Whose morality is public morality #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Just when we’re about to be chaste, we burst out laughing #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We are Lesbians, Bisexuals, Trans, Intersex, Feminists! We are everywhere! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Bombs are falling on our lives. Women want peace #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Security is no justification for war! Women want peace #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say our choices belong to us against those trying to take decisions about our lives out of our hands #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
We abandon neither the nights nor the streets nor the squares! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Germany, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Poland, Russia, El Salvador, Scotland, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey! #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Against those who steal our hope for peace by threatening us with civil war and tell us to surrender our lives unquestioningly into the hands of a single man #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say no to fathers, husbands, lovers, bosses and state “elders” who mix lies with threats to force us to consent and depend on them #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say our bodies, our labor and our identities belong to us #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say no to femicides, male violence and rape in dormitories and foundations, harassment on buses and in the streets, stalking by ex-lovers and spouses, forced marriages and pressure to have children #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Against harassment and rape covered up in high schools, discrimination and dating violence at universities, and sexist treatment by academics and teachers #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say we do not want male violence in parliament, sexist MPs or bills legitimizing sexual abuse #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Against hate crimes, murders of trans people and homophobic discrimination at work, at school and in the streets, to say we are here, we are together, you cannot stop LGBTI+ people #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
Against the unpaid domestic labor, childcare and housework loaded onto women; against discrimination in working life and the imposition of the “acceptable woman” at home and in the workplace #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say we do not let them interfere with our lives, we claim our lives #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say you cannot eliminate the women’s associations and centers, closed by decree laws, that women seeking escape from male violence turn to #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say we stand with the workers of the freedom-minded press, academia and state institutions who have lost their jobs, been arrested or face attempts to strip them of their rights #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say that in a polarized world our greatest source of support is women’s solidarity #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
To say we will overcome our despair about the life ahead by growing stronger together #FeministGeceYürüyüşü
@istanbulfeminist