#iwd — Public Fediverse posts

on this international workers' day, please remember those whose labour goes largely unacknowledged, unappreciated & unpaid. here's to the carers & the cleaners & everyone else without whom the human world would pretty much grind to a halt.
#iwd #internationalWorkersDay #huitHeures #1erMai #work #labour #art #illustration

https://www.hit-counter.net/closure.htm page going up in 2 hours #GeneralStrike #IWD #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #Strike

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi #Madrigals

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi #Madrigals

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi #Madrigals

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi #Madrigals

From @joannechocolat

Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian #composer, lutenist, and singer.

In #Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western #music #history.

Personal note: much of her work has been lost or is incomplete, but several pieces have been found, restored, & were performed for the first time in 400 years in 2022, on BBC Radio 3 for #InternationalWomensDay

#CelebratingWomen #Italy #Maddalena_Casulana #IWD #Artemisia_Gentileschi

Happy International Women’s Day! 🌷

Heute feiern wir die Stärke, Kompetenz und Innovationskraft von Frauen - weltweit.

Vielfalt ist für uns kein Schlagwort, sondern ein Erfolgsfaktor. Wir setzen uns für Chancengleichheit, gegenseitigen Respekt und echte Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten ein – heute und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr.

Danke an all die inspirierenden Frauen, die unsere Branche und unser Unternehmen jeden Tag mitgestalten.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD #WomenInTech #Diversity #audiusgroup

This's pretty great by Eleanor Courtemanche on why British suffragettes were more violent than their US counterparts

'The moment when the fight for the women’s vote in Britain flipped from its longstanding commitment to nonviolence to a campaign of bombing and arson (from about 1912-1914) falls into a peculiar historical blind spot. It doesn’t fit in neatly to the liberal heroic narrative about how women organized peacefully in vast rallies...It doesn’t really fit the leftist narrative of these years either'

#feminism #iwd #suffragettes #history #socialJustice

https://eleanorcourtemanche.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/why-was-the-british-womens-suffrage-movement-more-violent-than-the-american-one/

RT by @EU_Partnerships: Equal rights.

Equal justice.

Women and girls have a right to both.

This #IWD, we act to dismantle discriminatory systems and ensure women’s and girls’ agency everywhere.
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https://nitter.net/AminaJMohammed/status/2030539014458245532#m

I wrote this poem for a magazine that had the theme of ‘devour’ this month. I think I was inspired reading Hekate.

#poetry #IWD #motherhood #MothersDay
https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/erasure?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#HannahSpencer attacked by #fascist little boys & the pigs just allowed them in,- & out of the antifa crowd whilst also sheltering hannah in a copcar, on #IWD ffs! #ACAB

#GifsArtidote: it's high time we organise antifa to form a community defence force in every town & city. ✊🏻🏴

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/03/09/hannah-spencer-threatened/

#press #news #UKfascism #IndependentMedia #TheCanary

#HannahSpencer attacked by #fascist little boys & the pigs just allowed them in,- & out of the antifa crowd whilst also sheltering hannah in a copcar, on #IWD ffs! #ACAB

#GifsArtidote: it's high time we organise antifa to form a community defence force in every town & city. ✊🏻🏴

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/03/09/hannah-spencer-threatened/

#press #news #UKfascism #IndependentMedia #TheCanary

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

-

‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

-

‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

-

‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

-

‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

-

‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

-

‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

-

‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

-

‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

-

A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

-

‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

-

‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

-

‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

-

‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

-

‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

-

‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

-

‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

-

‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

-

A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

-

‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

-

‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

-

‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

-

‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

-

‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

-

‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

-

‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

-

‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

-

A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

-

‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

-

‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

-

‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

-

‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

-

‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

-

‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

-

‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

-

‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

-

A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

-

‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

-

‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

-

‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

-

‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

-

‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

-

‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

-

‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

-

‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

-

A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

Tradwives: Patriarchy Rebranded!
Hosted by the DA Global Women’s Caucus
March 17, 2026 at 7pm CET | 1pm ET
🟣 Enitza Templeton, Former tradwife
🟣 Dr. Eviane Leidig, Expert on online radicalization
🟣 Sara Wiles, Founder, Start and Grow Co
For more information and to register: https://www.democratsabroad.org/da_helpdesk/tradwives_rebranding_the_patriarchy
🗳️📮✅🇺🇸#DemocratsAbroad
🗳️🇺🇸🌍 #VoteFromAbroad
💜✊👭 #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD #TradWives #patriarchy #feminism #radicalization

After the recent #IWD this seems like the right time to share this excellent article about AI and ick, written for women and articulating some of the things we're experiencing with this shift https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called
#linkTuesday

A woman and a child attend a protest over the femicides of students Kimberly Joselin and Karol Toledo, and to mark International Women's Day, in Cuernavaca, #Mexico. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan

#photography
#women
#children
#IWD

Zoe can still really slam one home when she feels inclined

'Rev Marcus Green had set himself the challenge of feministly reading a book, the Bible, in which almost none of the women have a name...There’s one who is the mother of the sons of Zebedee, but even though she has actual lines and he has none, he still gets this cracking name, while you have to piece her identity together by triangulating other accounts, like an investigator at a crime scene'

#iwd #iwd2026 #zoeWilliams #misogyny #feministSermon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/09/why-do-we-need-international-womens-day-misogyny

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Women raise their hands intertwined as they take part in a demonstration marking International Women’s Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 8 March.

Photograph: Pablo Porciúncula/AFP/Getty Images

#photography
#Brazil
#women
#IWD
#hands
#solidarity

#IWD 2026.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

A bit late for #IWD but I enjoyed this stand-up bit from the wonderfully talented comedian Catie Wilkins:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeT-ffjpR8&pp=4gcKEghzdWJzdGFjaw%3D%3D

"Transphobic Men attack Female MP on International Women's Day!"

The headlines the BBC doesn't want us to see!

https://youtu.be/fIwZSZQ_wn0

#HannahSpencer #GreenParty #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #IWD #Transphobia #TerfIsland #BBC #BBCBias #Fasicsts #Journalism

Violence towards Women on International Woman's Day as well, a Female MP needing police escort because of violent males.
But you won't see the BBC framing it like that, they imply it was Hannah's fault for being supportive of Trans people...

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/03/09/hannah-spencer-threatened/

#HannahSpencer #IWD #TERFIsland #Transphobia #BBCBias #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UKPOL #UKPolitics

1) For the (biodiversity) record, women in GBIF are leading by example, speaking up and shaping the future of biodiversity science every day. 🌏❤️

This year's #InternationalWomensDay theme is "give to gain." With a wealth of experience and knowledge, we asked women in the GBIF network "what piece of advice you would give to the next generation of biodiversity professionals?"

Read their inspiring responses 👇

#IWD2026 #IWD #WomenInSTEM #Biodiversity

See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screenprint, London, 1975
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In 1974, a group of artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to further the women’s liberation movement. Their posters address gender discrepancies in pay, capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing, sexist depictions in advertising, and uniting women against racism.⁠
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Read more about See Red Women’s Workshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. ⁠ https://letterformarchive.org/shop/strikethrough-typographic-messages-of-protest/
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#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Strikethrough #LetterformArchiveBooks #PublicationDesign #Printing #Publication #LetterformArchive #Typography #TypographyBooks⁠ #SeeRedWomensWorkshop

@dramypsyd the little bit of femininity i stuffed in my right big toe when i was 5 even made me do my fucking laundry today, to take advantage of save energy sunday ffs! #IWD

Today's top ten tag trends:

10: #spd
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But the panic I felt over my physical safety was very real. That the first thing I assumed is violence. Not a prank. Because that's a more likely threat model.

I can't wait for the day that is no longer true.

#internationalwomensday #IWD
6/6

#IWD #happyinternationalwomensday

#HappyDay #Bahd #Lex #EstherClement #Mymother #MyQueenMother 👸✅♀️♐♥️
#March #March8th #March8
🙏To All that has to do with #female 👸
👸 #gender Or #genderhood
#Congrats #Congratulations 🍬🎈🎉🎀
#bahdlex #Bahdlexblog #Bahdlexempire

It's international women's day today and in case you didn't know, I'm a woman! I am a webcomic artist/illustrator/animator/watercolorer enthusiast! Here are some artworks I've drawn and like! Also! Check out my webcomic and support me 👇 linktr.ee/darkhalo4321 #art #digitalart #iwd #ocartist

Far-right w*nkers harassing #HannahSpencerMP at a rally in #ManchesterUK just showing the psychosis-level obsession generated by TERFs banging on about “what is a woman “. On #IWD too. Absolute fckery.

"They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work." - Silvia Frederici

#FreeLabour #SilviaFrederici #feminism #UnwagedWork #WomensRights #WorkersRights #labour #unwaged #DomesticLabour #Marxist #feminist #IWD2026 #IWD #WomensDay

If you are still looking for an idea how to celebrate the #iwd2026 this post is for you.

Just ask your male colleagues tomorrow how do they actually manage to combine household, care work and career.

Looking forward to the answers.

#iwd2026 #frauentag #DEIB #dei #diversity #InternationalWomensDay #8marca #iwd #Weltfrauentag

How to Celebrate International Women’s Day: 50 Inspiring Women Leaders, Quotes & Actionable Ideas #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2026 #WomensRights #ChooseToChallenge #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #HearHerVoice #CelebrateWomen https://www.gsnsp.com/international-womens-day-50-leaders-quotes-ideas/

How to Celebrate International Women’s Day: 50 Inspiring Women Leaders, Quotes & Actionable Ideas #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2026 #WomensRights #ChooseToChallenge #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #HearHerVoice #CelebrateWomen https://www.gsnsp.com/international-womens-day-50-leaders-quotes-ideas/

How to Celebrate International Women’s Day: 50 Inspiring Women Leaders, Quotes & Actionable Ideas #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2026 #WomensRights #ChooseToChallenge #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #HearHerVoice #CelebrateWomen https://www.gsnsp.com/international-womens-day-50-leaders-quotes-ideas/

How to Celebrate International Women’s Day: 50 Inspiring Women Leaders, Quotes & Actionable Ideas #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2026 #WomensRights #ChooseToChallenge #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #HearHerVoice #CelebrateWomen https://www.gsnsp.com/international-womens-day-50-leaders-quotes-ideas/

"I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively - they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you're writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgement or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman's tongue. Come out and tell us what time of night it is! Don't let us sink back into silence. If we don't tell our truth, who will? Who'll speak for my children, and yours?"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 commencement address at Bryn Mawr College (published in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places).

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #Feminism #UrsulaKLeguin #Quote #Quotes

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Today I Rise

The world is missing what I am ready to give: my wisdom, my sweetness, my love and my hunger for peace. I weep with the trees and the rivers and the earth in distress. I rise and shine and I am ready to go on my quest. Today I rise…Without doubt or hesitation. Today I rise. Without excuses – Without procrastination. Today I call my sisters to join. A movement of resoluteness and ….concern. Today is my call to action. I will fulfill my mission. Without further distraction.

Today is the day! Today I will start to offer the world: The Wisdom of my heart.

💜 poem by Alexandra Feldner
🎞️ by Alexandra Feldner & Agata Wels

©️ video has been originally downloaded with permission from their website in 2018, now available via Films For Action

#TodayIRise #AlexandraFeldner #AgataWels #InternationalWomensDay #Equality #Liberation #FemalePower #Feminism #WomensRights #WomensHealth #WomensChoices #IWD #InternationalWomensWeek #égalité #PouvoirFéminin #Féminisme #DroitsDesFemmes #SantéDesFemmes #ChoixDesFemmes #JournéeInternationaleDesFemmes #SemaineInternationaleDesFemmes

Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

8 women in Scotland who shaped...

Today, on International Women's Day, I'm celebrating all the graceful, long-suffering & loving #women in my life, especially my wife, mother & sister, & those who already left to a better place, especially my dear granny, aunties, & MIL.😍🙏
My thoughts also go out to men who fear #equal #opportunities (such as the elite in Japan, see NHK documentary below abt how their top university has only 20% women students in our 21st century!?): genuine competition is a panacea for stunted development! #IWD