International Women's Day is a day
of resistance. In the face of anti-feminism, anti-gender and massive attacks on the rights to sexual and gender self-determination
that have been fought for, the day is not only a reminder, but also a necessity. Historically, it also symbolises the fact
that feminist struggles have always been closely linked to what is now described as intersectionality.
International
Women's Day was first celebrated on March 8th in 1921. The date commemorates the textile workers‘ uprising in New York in
1857, in which 129 women workers lost their lives, and the textile workers’ strike in St. Petersburg in 1917. Women's Day
was banned during the Nazi era and was only revived in the context of feminist struggles from the 1960s onwards. Since then,
FLINTA* (a word that includes women, lesbians, intersexuals, non-binary, trans and agender people) have been demonstrating
- and celebrating - on 8 March. The two belong together - this year too, and this year even more so.
With
this in mind, we wish you and all of us a fierce March 8th
For the Working Group on Equal Treatment Issues (Arbeitskreis
für Gleichbehandlungsfragen / AKG)
Nanna Heidenreich and Stefan Wirnsperger
