WEGO-ITN promoted a special Twitter campaign on International Women’s Day. Partners, researchers and activists were invited to share with us their list of inspiring women for March 8th 2021. The list included artists, professors, academics and local activists. Take a look:
Our researcher Anna Katharina Voss, on who inspires her:
“Ecofeminist @yayo_herrero, for relentlessly inviting us to counter capitalism’s destructive nature by imagining and creating everyday utopias of care that recognise our eco-dependency and inter-dependency”#IWD #8M2021 pic.twitter.com/bOfOQ43SW5
— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021
@ekowati_dee for #IWD2021
“I am inspired by Ibu Pandan, portrayed here. I met her and was amazed by the way she navigates her life in a very limited room of agency to find future for her children, and her courage to lend her voice for our documentary” https://t.co/FETJvS3xR4 pic.twitter.com/6vjWRMKX0d— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021
@Marlene26150134 on who inspires her:
“Yuderkys Espinosa, decolonial feminist. It is essentialist to universalize patriarchy as a pre-existing system in any group, because it implies that every previous society was always worse, and reaffirms the need for salvationist battles.” pic.twitter.com/PhV2mR1i2E
— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021
@karinhueck on who inspires her:
“@LaerteCoutinho1 for being this incredible, sensible artist. She is a Brazilian trans cartoonist, who does poignant social criticism while showing the absurd that is always surrounding us”#8M #IWD2021 #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/vUVfvDAARK
— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021
@StillEnid, on who inspires her
"@ursulaleguin, for challenging us to imagine worlds beyond capitalism and gender, with all their messy contradictions but also with glimpses of romanticism, which always makes you feel Ursula is secretly speaking only to you."#IWD2021 #8M2021 pic.twitter.com/jk2Ol4lsHt
— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021
Ou researcher Milja Fenger, on who inspires her:
"Prof. Arlie Hochschild. She inspires me greatly because she combines sharp and insightful sociological thinking with unrelenting empathy, which includes those who support vastly opposing beliefs than her own."#8M #IWD2021 pic.twitter.com/Ec68oOeTSN
— Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (@WEGO_ITN) March 8, 2021