We have grown up in a patriarchal society, we have gone to university and we have voted (because other women fought), we take care of our families and we work, in the wage gap in paid work and in that of no recognition in the unpaid.
We have given birth and we take care of our daughters day and night, we breastfeed them, we sleep them, we calm them, we carry them in our arms, we sing to them, we heal their wounds ... for love, pure, deep and unconditional love. And for love we have dark circles, our arms hurt, or our chest and back, our insides hurt when they cry, when they are sick, when we have to separate from them to go to work ...
Motherhood enhances the strength of women. The strength of women becomes great with motherhood because now it has two directions: towards our daughters, to love and raise them, and towards ourselves, to be their mother, who loves and cares for them, the woman who possesses the values and ideas that he lives and defends.
Mothers Raising Feminist Children
La strike called for today is a labor, care and consumer strike. The vast majority of care is carried out by women: we take care of our daughters, we take care of our elders, etc. Let's teach our children to care. And here I do not use the marked gender that I am using in this article because it is not such: I refer to our children, boys.
Let us educate our children in feminism: let's educate them to care, to value, to fight against any manifestation of gender violence, against discrimination based on sex, against the wage gap, etc.
Mothers fighting
Mothers fight for the well-being and happiness of our daughters, beginning and end of all things. We fight against anything that threatens their health (physical or emotional), we fight for their education (in values), for breastfeeding, we fight against sleepless nights and fears, against all those questions that accumulate on the balcony when they sleep ...
For them and for ourselves, we fight against gender violence, against oppression for sexual orientation and identity and unequal treatment and job opportunities. We fight for the extension of maternity leave (beyond sixteen weeks), for our right to breastfeeding, because it ensures the interest of the minor in visitation and custody regimes, for a real conciliation, etc.
I hope one day the recognition To so much love, so much care, so many takes, empathy and constancy, stories and afternoons in the sun, sleepless nights, courage, integrity, dignity, struggle, patience, breakfasts, butterfly kisses , and the giant smile after teleportation when he says "mom."
"If we stop, the world stops."
Note: Instead of the unmarked gender proposed by the RAE, today I write with the unmarked female gender.