More than a hundred years have now passed in the history of the women’s movement. If there is oppression, it will be met by enduring resistance.
Women have always resisted, even when their names were not included in history; they claimed their lives. We women stand and see across the world today that there are still manifestations of deception, racism and fascism. There is a system trying to exploit our labor, our sexuality and our bodies by loading all the world’s care work onto our shoulders, in an attempt to control our fertility. It condemns us to inequality in material and immaterial ways, trying to limit our sexual orientation to one and our gender identities to two
only, by trying to subject us to violence and “bring us into line.” Abusing children, handing our lives over to patriarchal and religious institutions by drawing boundaries and determining which actions constitute violations of those boundaries, or possessing weapons to use when their power does not work. There is an age-old system that excludes us from decision-making mechanisms and imposes a life we do not want.
It has been “enough” for a very long time; we do not need to say “enough” anymore. It has been “enough” since the beginning. We have not gathered here today to sing the praises of this system; rather, we have gathered because we propose a way