Welcome to the Project Censored radio show on Pacifica radio, I’m your
cohost Eleanor Goldfield and this week, we have a special episode: “What
To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by
Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and while many will and do
celebrate this day in revolutionary ways, the truth is that IWD like so many
other holidays is often used to serve the vehemently anti-feminist goals of
the architects of our oppression.
So-called white feminism perpetuates the evils of white supremacy,
colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism – but with a femme
facade, pushing us to ask what to us is an international women’s day which
doesn’t seek to dismantle the very systems that use, abuse & torment
women across the US and the globe?
Award-winning journalist Mnar Adley and organizer Afeni Evans will join me
for this special hour-long dive into the insidious machinations of white
feminism, who gets violently othered and why, the internationalist demands
of a revolutionary feminism, and what really to us, is – or could be –
International Women’s Day?
Songs:
Yalla Ynam by Sanaa Moussa
Complicity by Rooftop Revolutionaries
Mnar Adley: https://www.mintpressnews.com/
Afeni Evans: @factsandfire
