I’ve never been a big fan of international days, especially since their meaning is often misrepresented and exploited, but I would never want them to be eliminated because I have always understood their historical importance. We need certain dates not to forget the past, to better understand the present and improve it, but above all to avoid repeating the same mistakes. The period we are living in, however, reminds us once again how difficult it is for man to learn from his mistakes.
International Women’s Rights Day ended in the midst of a terrible war where there are many violated human rights.
In recent days, the Russian feminist movement has also spoken out condemning this conflict. In the communiqué, the Russian and feminist citizens affirm that “feminism as a political force cannot be on the side of a war of aggression and military occupation. The feminist movement in Russia fights for the weakest and for the development of a just society with equal opportunities and prospects, in which there can be no room for violence and military conflicts. ” A clear stance and a collective call to action.
It strikes me very much that Russian feminist organizations – as explained in the communiqué – are one of the few political forces active in their country, which have managed to survive because the authorities never perceived them as a dangerous political movement, thus ending up undergoing less state repression. In fact, they have simply been ignored, a modality that women (feminists and otherwise) know very well.
A similar fate also happened to Aleksandra Kollontaja Soviet socialist feminist I learned about from Jennifer Guerra’s book, The loving capitalpublished by Bompiani, where an entire chapter is dedicated to her.
Kollontaj was politically marginalized because she dared to challenge the family as a patriarchal institution, criticizing the socialist theory and practice of not addressing the problem of the oppression of women within the family unit. As Jennifer Guerra explains, “expelled from the official Soviet historiography already alive and far too socialist to figure among the historical examples of empowerment recovered by contemporary feminism, Aleksandra Kollontaj is unknown even in Marxist circles.”
Today things are not so different, I think how difficult it is for women to make their voices heard, I think how often newspaper articles omit their surnames, how rare it is to see protests by Not one less and how difficult it is to be taken into consideration even in the places closest to our ideas.
And so precisely on the occasion of this International Women’s Rights Day, Giulia Blasi comes to mind, who in an interview to answer a question about the condition of women chooses very precise words: “Women always talk, always communicate, always explain themselves. The problem is that they are rarely listened to, because the point of view of women is of no interest“. At this point, if you really want to give us a gift on 8 March, start to deal with your privileges, but above all take the ear cups between your fingers and listen.
Source: Vanity Fair

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