The theme this year is "Choose to Challenge". There is a colour for Women's Day: purple, green and white - well, three colours. They symbolize justice and dignity, hope and purity. They originated in 1908.
The sense of an International day for women is consistent with all international days for and against something. These are days to recognize achievements, raise awareness about equality, lobby for parity and raise money for charities.
As for International Women's Day - it is the sheer number of people seeking autonomy and human rights. The pictures around the world are compelling.
Who is the Manif Pour Tous group? They are shown marching through the Eiffel Tower in Paris and their "uniform" is eerie, even creepy. So I looked them up.
Originally created to oppose the French bill on same-sex marriage, La Manif Pour Tous (LMPT) has broadened its claims to the defense of the “traditional family” and the opposition to a fictional “gender theory”.
Links with other organisations: Many links with anti-choice organisations (Alliance Vita, Fondation Jérome Lejeune) and with far-right organisations.
Key statement: “La Manif pour tous defends mariage and filiation in line with the gendered reality of mankind, which consequence is at the same time sexual difference and complementarity that are inescapable to conceive a child and to assume the mother-father and the motherhood-fatherhood differences”
The picture has made the cover likely because it looks similar to the uniform in The Handmaid's Tale. Here it is.
This diptych is one of the montage series. It is a curved palm leaf overlayed with textures.
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