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“Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day
Glass ceilings and jeering day
Snatched dreams and leering day.
Every day is women’s day
Going to her rape hearing day
Reliving through it all again day
No-one will believe her day
Hashtags MeToo and TimesUp day.
Every day is women’s day
Her colleague earns more than her day
Expected to raise the kids day
Explain the gaps in her CV day
And put up with setbacks in her career day.
Every day is her woman’s day
Judged for her appearance day
Thighs too fat day
Skin too dark day
Lips too thick day
Hair too kinky day
Voice too “aggressive” day
Fit into that box day
HR wasn’t built for her day.
Every day is women’s day
Fight for her rights day
But take a moment to breathe day
Celebrate with her sisters day
Today is I’m a woman day.
Today is remember we exist day
Remember we have rights day
Remember have voices day
And a reminder we will use them day.
Every day is women’s day
Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day.
There is a special place in hell
For women who let other women
burn like in the horrors and fires of Grenfell.
In the richest borough
With the cladding
And the buck passing continuing
But few of those bucks reaching the hands
That lost loved ones and dwellings
Homes and belongings
And the death toll shrinks
As if those who died
Come back
And wipe the ink from the toll
And in the words of
Michael E. Kwadjo Omari O. Jr
“Did you think that we forgot about them as well?”
There is a special place in history
For women who snatch the ladder from under other women
When they have climbed to a place of safety
And the milk from the mouths of their babes
As well.
Every day is women’s day
Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day.
A special place in memory
For women who detain other women indefinitely
in Yarl’s Wood and others too many to name.
A special place
For those whose austerity measures messes with other women’s livelihoods
Condemning the marginalised and disabled
To lives of destitution and early graves
If you are that woman draw a short straw and imbibe the canal from whence you came
Every day is women’s day
Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day.
So while we can wave our congratulatory flags
And pat ourselves on all our backs
We need to ask
If all other women are also free.
It’s been a whole centenary
Since women won the vote we’re told
Without taking apart who here was meant by “women”
Every day is women’s day
Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day
Who here is humanised in that sentence
And whose struggles are honoured
And whose plights are forgotten
And erased?
It is important to remember that
Many of the women
And men
We honour today
Stood on the other side of what society practiced then
The Pankhursts who are honoured fought against an injustice
The Dr King and Mandela who we re-write today
Were considered dangerous men in their times
So
Out here in Intersectional Land
I too
Have a dream
for all women to be treated equal
Because
Every day is women’s day.
Every day is women’s day
Wake up and deal with my woman’s day.”
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