08/03/2024
Dear Sisters,
As we celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day under the theme 'Invest in women: Accelerate progress”, I hope that our voices doesn’t feel like a liability in a world that mostly hears power as baritone, that we don’t cringe when we hear our recorded sound, and wonder what we could do differently.
I hope we know how to breathe deeply, of course, and access the full range of sound that’s contained within our body. I do hope however that it is not a practice we develop out of some twisted sense of shame about how our voice naturally emerges. I hope, like our male friends and families, we simply have a voice and feel free to use it out in the world, taking for granted that we will be heard as worthy.
I hope that we will labor over the usefulness and originality of our concepts, and the clarity and beauty of our language. And if whatever else we find joy in, I hope that we will have it all! This year, I hope that we delight in color, take deep pleasure in playing with our appearances, be creative, fearless and have fun. But I hope we never spend copious amounts of energy trying to protect ourselves from society’s critique, a sort of defensive maintenance that so many women of our generation and previous ones felt obligated to do.
I hope that our identity as an auntie, a mother or a grandmother will never be thought of as contradictory or competing with our capacity to lead.
I hope, most fundamentally, that power is disentangled from s*x in a way that frees us up to see our own gifts, and the gifts of other women, without the scales of s*xism that have so long obscured all of our vision.
And above all, I hope for justice, equality and equity for women, end to being violated, an end to suffering any violence. And that women will get more protection and recognition, and we stop being victims of abuse of any kind.
Happy International Women's Day to all my Sisters here.
Happy Happy International Women’s Day to all my sisters at Tech Mommas, today is dedicated to you, your courage, your tenacity, your strength and your wisdom! Honored to be investing all the time and resources to building a platform that fosters your growth and gives access to a wholesome community.
I hope you all have a grand day!
