March 8: for all women who “resist”

In chronological order the last woman whose greatness we have known is Yulia. The Ukrainian mother who in these hours has remained in Kiev to look after her sick mother but she had the heart (and strength) to to leave his 11-year-old son alone. He wrote a phone number on his hand and sent him to the Slovakian border where other relatives were waiting for him. The Ukrainian interior minister told her story by dedicating a post on Facebook to this mother and her son to which the mother replied with a video message made to thank all those who lent a hand to her son.

Like Yulia, there are thousands of women who are resisting on Ukrainian territory right now: those taking up arms, those helping the evacuation of civilians, those who chose happiness, despite everything, and got married at the front, those still assisting pregnant women moved to underground maternity wards. Olga, Natalia, Yana, Lyudmila, are just some of the women who have chosen to resist leaving alone with their children, leaving, in most cases, their husbands and companions at the front. Many photos in these hours tell of their kisses on the border, of hugs that seem to never want to open up.

There are mothers like Marina who in the desperate race towards the Mariupol hospital he put his whole life into it. With her gaze already broken by pain, she followed her husband Fedor, as he ran into the emergency room with their 18-month-old baby tightly in his arms: Kirill, who should never have known anything about the war and instead it was the war that took them away. life, to take him away forever from the loving embrace of his family.

Women who resist are at the edge of the world. From Ukraine to Afghanistan, passing through all those countries where their rights are hardly even contemplated. They are the ones that welcome refugees arriving from war-torn areas. They are the ones who leave the strollers with bags full of basic necessities inside the stations, who organize the buses departing from large and small cities to arrive in Poland, Romania, Slovakia and open the doors to women fleeing with their children. Many and of all ages. This March 8 is for them.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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