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Everywhere

(IWD 2023)

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It’s International Women’s Day

While in some parts of the world

It’s nearly over

And it’s over

I wonder what happened?

What nations adopted

Legislation

That affirms,

Almost absurdly,

The humanhood of women?

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What programs might have taken place

By groups who want

To announce

Or better yet

To shake the world

With a civil earthquake

To bring tectonic change

Into culture

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What artists and art groups gave us new ways

To see and hear

And touch the way

To change?

And what God waits

To intervene

When the threats increase and wholeness

Is defined

Only in part

For some?

Better yet, let’s intervene ourselves

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Let’s push on tyrannies

Until pushed over

And things are built

New places

And new institutions,

A world that’s femininely organized,

Which is to say

The most human

Of all worlds

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Salha Khan, a Kurdish hero. Statue in Erbil. سالحە خان ١٩٣٢ – ٢٠٠١ لە هەولێر #kurdistanregion #erbil #هەولێر

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