HAPPY WOMAN'S DAY :))

GLOBAL MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE!

EDUCATION WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES.

International Women's Day On March 8th,

women around the world speak out about women's rights,

injustices and other issues facing them today.

This year, the 30th anniversary of International Women's Day,

focuses on violence against women.

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What Do Women Want?

I want a red dress.

I want it flimsy and cheap,

I want it too tight,

I want to wear ituntil someone tears it off me.

I want it sleeveless and backless,

this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath.

I want to walk down the street past

Thrifty's and the hardware store

with all those keys glittering in the window,

past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old donuts in their café,

past the Guerra brothers slinging pigs

from the truck and onto the dolly,

hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.

I want to walk like

I'm the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

I want that red dress bad.

I want it to confirm your worst fears about me,

to show you how little

I care about you or anything except what I want.

When I find it, I'll pull that garment from its hanger

like I'm choosing a body to carry me into this world,

through the birth-cries and the love-cries too,

and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,

it'll be the god damned dress they bury me in.

by Kim Addonizio.

This one's pretty self-explanatory..

KNOW MELTEM'S STORY?

**Locked up for being a teenage refugee**

What kind of society detains young people simply for trying

to escape torture and abuse in their own country?

Natasha Walter on the shocking story of her story.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2265321,00.html