The history of women’s struggle as we know it stretches back over a century. Where there is oppression, resistance endures; even if their names do not fit into history, women have always resisted and claimed their lives. Today, we thousands of women here and millions of women everywhere in the world stand and see. We see the flailing of misogyny, racism and fascism confronting us. There is an order that every day seeks ways to exploit our labor, sexuality and bodies: by dumping all the world’s care labor on us; trying to control our fertility; condemning us to materially and emotionally unequal conditions; acting as though there is only one sexual orientation and just two gender identities; subjecting us to violence to bring us “into line”; harassing children; handing our lives over to male-dominated and religious institutions; drawing the boundaries itself and deciding itself when violating them is legitimate; reaching for its weapons when it cannot establish its power. There is a male-dominated order that excludes women from decision-making mechanisms and imposes on us a life we do not want.
To say “enough already” is utterly beside the point. It has been enough for a long time. It has been enough from the very beginning. We have gathered here today not to address this order, but because we propose a path against it. Through feminism, we resist, struggle and rebel against the order that tries to discipline us with fear, violence, war, sweet talk and the fairy tale of the family. We began by imagining another world; we know building it is possible together, through solidarity. Long live feminism, long live feminist struggle!