BLK GRRRL BOOK FAIR

“Bourgeois feminism and the movement of proletarian women –are two fundamentally different social movements,” –Clara Zetkin.

Working Class Black women in New Jersey continue to be harmed by the perfect storm of misogynoir. We have been left behind in a state that is one of the most well off middle classes in the United States.

From the Network of Public Health Law

International Women’s Day is connected to the Political Economy. Health, housing, and access to information is connected to the political economy.

If you can’t figure out a way to include Black women, Native-American women, undocumented women, Latina, and transgender people in your International Women’s Day, then you might not understand International Women’s Day.

If you can’t have empathy for girls who have been sex trafficked (many call the prostitutes), if you view them as just people who have made bad choices –you might not understand International Women’s Day.

If you can’t have empathy for Black women whose children have been murdered by the police –you might not understand International Women’s Day.

If you think war is fine, if it keeps your kids safe or you just don’t care, because you have lot to do and you can’t worry about the country you live in murdering people –you might not understand International Women’s Day.

This day is about Jhinna Pinchi, Liza Maza, Norotiana Ramboarivelo Jeannoda, and Simona Broomes. This day is about solidarity with women around the world fighting against the status quo and oppression.

Today is about the people doing the radical hard work in labor, anti-racism, the environment movement, anti-war, anti-poverty —the work that doesn’t end up in pictures in the media.

Today is about the people who are doing the work that comes up last in search engines.

Today is not Bourgeois feminist day –that happens in January.