International Women's Day - New Season Trailer

Happy International Women's Day and welcome to the new season of She Who Persisted. The Nasty Podcast.

Episode Transcript

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Hello Nasty's and Happy International Women's Day. Though the United Nations began celebrating International
Women's Day in International Women's Year nineteenseventy five, the earliest Women's Day observance,
called National Women's Day, was heldon February twenty eighth, nineteen o
nine, in New York, organizedby the Socialist Party of America at the

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suggestion of Teresa Michiel, a Russianborn American labor activist, suffragist, and
educator. The following August, theInternational Socialist Women's Conference was organized and inspired
in part by American socialist. Germansocialist Luisa Zetz, proposed the establishment of

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an annual Women's Day. Delegates atthe conference a hundred women from seventeen different
countries agreed with the idea as astrategy to promote equal rights, including suffrage
for women. The following year,on March nineteenth, nineteen eleven, International
Women's Day was marked for the firsttime by over a million people in Austria,

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Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.In the Austro Hungarian Empire alone,
there were three hundred demonstrations. InVienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and
carried banners honoring the martyrs of theParis Commune, women demanded that they be
given the right to vote and holdpublic office. We've come a long way,

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particularly considering the number of women whoare in the US Congress this year,
but there's a lot more work todo. This year, as we
celebrate a hundred years of women's suffragein so many countries, we will be
honoring the work that has been doneand the work that we still have to
do to fight patriarchy and bias.The hashtag being used for this year's International

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Women's Day is balanced for Better,and in this season of She Who Persisted,
we're going to be looking at contemporaryand historical ways that people have worked
to create general or balance, fromhistorians looking at the intersection of gender,
labor, and technology, to activistsorganizing to improve the lives of women.
These people are persisting in their desireto create a better world for women and

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individuals experiencing discrimination, to fight thepatriarchy, and to raise awareness of bias
in all its forms. We'll alsobe discussing books that raise awareness of issues
that we didn't even know existed,checking our unintended bias, and learning more
about how we can be better Alliesis a huge reason that this podcast exists,

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and we're always looking for books andblogs to help us do that.
We have a few books in mindand have taken your suggestions to heart.
If you have any additional ideas,please reach out to us on social media,
either through our Facebook page, Shewho Persisted the Nasty Podcast the Facebook
discussion group persisters that She who Persistedgroup on Instagram at she Who Persisted on

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Twitter she Persisted pod or via emailat she who Persisted podcast at gmail dot
com. We hope you'll join usin thinking about ways that you can fight
the patriarchy, resist and persist,Stay nasty. Bye. She was one.

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She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.