Black lives matter but does that include black females?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. well, today's the first day of National Women's History Month.

It should be a month of hammering the simple idea that Women's Lives Matter.


It seems to me that Black Women are subsumed under Black History Month. Black Women who made a difference are now featured in the many educational spots, and that's good....but to me, it seems the attention paid is thanks to their being black. Their struggle as women is ignored.
The horrific stories of Black history that are told to honor the tortured and remind us we must fight against such evil seem never to include women.

Women's History Month has always seemed embarrassingly palid in comparison. At the college where I work, BHM is a big event, with high profile speakers and events throughout the month.

Compare that to WHM, which is "celebrated" with a one-day free flower given to female faculty, staff and students who go to the Student Union to pick one up.

I hope the Women's Center will get more serious about "our" month.
The Women's Center does sponsor Take Back the Night in the fall, although that event isn't linked with meaningful speakers.

Nor are there important women speakers around the time they present the Vagina Monologues, certainly not noticeably like BHM celebrations, anyway.

VM is also done annually on Valentine's Day, but I've never been on board with it. To my mind, it "celebrates" our identity as victims. And, I'm a FUCK of a lot more than my vagina.

In my opinion, it's more important that women be recognized as important participants in the advancement of humanity. That is how we fight the dehumanization that feeds misogyny.