#womensday — Public Fediverse posts

Colonia Aurora’s Women’s Day gift bag sparked a very awkward national conversation

Dear Cherubs, in Colonia Aurora, Misiones, a Women’s Day celebration turned into a public-relations skid mark after the municipality handed out cleaning supplies as prizes and posed the winners for photos. The event was meant to honor local women, but the visual language did the exact opposite and the internet noticed immediately.

THE PHOTO OP
Misiones Online reported that the municipality’s annual event included talks, music and recreational activities, and that more than 200 people attended. But the image that escaped into the wild was not the speech or the concert; it was women smiling with brooms, buckets and squeegees on a day that is supposed to recognize equality, not repackage housework as a prize.

Página/12 and Infobae both described the same basic scene: prizes linked to domestic chores, posted from the municipality’s own social media, followed by a wave of criticism. That is the kind of clue that tells you the problem was not just what happened, but how proudly it was photographed.

THE DEFENSE
Mayor Carlos Goring told local media the cleaning items were part of a mime game and were not the only gifts handed out. He argued the day also included reflection, health talks and other prizes, but once the optics have gone viral, explanations tend to arrive carrying a very small umbrella.

The municipality itself is a small one, with a little over 10,000 residents, tucked in Misiones near the Uruguay River and known for tobacco, yerba mate, soy and an increasingly important pineapple harvest, according to Infobae and DataClave. That is the kind of place where a community event can feel intimate and well-intended, right up until a photo turns it into a national punchline.

The blunt truth is that International Women’s Day carries a century-long history of labor, rights and political struggle, so a broom can never really be “just a joke” once it becomes the centerpiece. A playful game may have been the intent, but the message received by many viewers was a shrugging remix of old stereotypes, which is why the backlash spread so fast.

As noted by thisclaimer.com, the story is less about one municipal blunder than about the gap between intent and image. In the age of instant sharing, that gap can turn a local tribute into a national embarrassment before the mop water has even dried.

Colonia Aurora probably meant to stage a warm, community-minded event. Instead, it managed to hand critics a perfectly packaged symbol of exactly what not to do on 8M, and that is a hard lesson to sweep under the rug.

Misiones Online — https://misionesonline.net/2026/03/09/entrega-de-escobas-y-baldes-dia-de-la-mujer-criticas/
Infobae — https://www.infobae.com/politica/2026/03/09/polemico-festejo-por-el-dia-de-la-mujer-en-misiones-un-municipio-entrego-baldes-escurridores-y-escobas-como-premios/
Página/12 — https://www.pagina12.com.ar/2026/03/09/un-municipio-de-misiones-regalo-baldes-escobas-y-escurridores-por-el-dia-de-la-mujer/
DataClave — https://www.dataclave.com.ar/poder/controversia-en-pueblo-de-misiones-tras-un-festejo-del-8m-donde-regalaron-escobas-y-baldes_a69af09dc1d279cdde00a0818
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
Thisclaimer YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@thisclaimer?sub_confirmation=1

PLEASE ADD IN THE COMMENTS ALL FLINTA BANDS WE FORGOT

As today is International Women's Day, here are some Fediverse band accounts to follow with (at least one) FLINTA in the band:

Support all punk bands, but especially the FLINTA ones - the boy bands get the support anyway ....

@withhighheelsagainst all-female band from Bernau
@die_ausreden @[email protected] (50% female)
@themelmacs - punk band from Dreseden with a female singer
@kryk - black metal crust punk with a female shouter
@TheTCHIK @[email protected] - started as an all girl band from Berlin with 10 / 11 (?) girls - now only 3 a left.

And brand new in the Fediverse: @losfastidios - welcome!

And some more , as a list:
@oknein
@KODDERBand
@hitfabrik
@theilenband
@bolzenhoexter
@kuballa

I'm pretty sure you will find a lot more on @FediPunkGuide

#frauentag #frauenkampftag #punk #bandsofmastodon #womensday #flinta #flintapunks #flintapunx #fedipunks #fedipunx @punk

The cultural association between women & #madness in 19th & 20th c is analysed through the lives of individual women in the US & Britain in #History & #EnglishLiterature in this book by Leslie Ann Harper

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1893560422

#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #CulturalStudies #WomensStudies

In her book "Through Her Eyes", Clodagh Finn explores the lives of 21 women who were instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1898219222

#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #Ireland #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #History #WomensStudies

This empowering #memoir by Diane Abbott details her way as a child of the #WindrushGeneration to her becoming Britain's 1st Black female MP

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1798141493

#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishStudies #autobiography #BlackStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies

"Rare Merit" by Colleen Skidmore follows the development of #photography in #Canada in the 19th & early 20th c among women photographers, showing their importance for the medium

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837655480

#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #WomensStudies #CanadianStudies #WomensStudies

#WordyWednesday: Shrouding Women

When you think of morticians, you might conjure images of creepy old men in black suits. But did you know that they've only been "in charge" of the dead for the last century or so? Before that, men were typically responsible for building coffins and digging graves. Body preparation fell to the women!

Women were already tasked with nursing the sick, distributing herbs, and aiding in childbirth, so bathing and dressing the dead was a natural progression. Since it was a duty that demanded care, gentleness, and propriety, men were simply unsuited to the task. Enter the shrouding women.

Many neighborhood women became skilled and knowledgeable in the art of preparing the dead. They understood the weather's effect on decomposition and how to tend to bodies suffering from various conditions. They lent their expertise to those in need, not for monetary compensation but as an act of community.

Duties included preparing a cooling board (sometimes an ironing board or barn door placed over chairs), washing and dressing the corpse, closing the eyes and mouth (coins on eyes and jaws secured shut with tied rags or forked sticks propped against the breast bone), and otherwise arranging the body into a restful pose.

Commercialization of death care after the Civil War led cabinetmakers to evolve from coffin builders to embalmers. They wrested control of bodies away from women, claiming women were weak, delicate, and unable to tolerate the sight of blood. As the men rose into the ranks of professionals, women were relegated to the sidelines of death care. They became decorations. Trade journal advertisements portrayed men doing funeral work and women as objects of beauty. The foundation was laid for men to dominate the industry for the next 100 years.

Fortunately, we've come full circle and women are entering funeral service in droves. Over 70% of graduating mortuary science classes are women. Turns out we *can* handle some blood after all.

#HisAndHearsePress #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenSupportingWomen #DeathCare #FuneralService #MortuaryScience #MortuarySchool #DeathPositive #FuneralDirector #Embalmer #Mortician #Undertaker

Happy International Women’s Day! Shout out to all of my sisters (not just my cis-ters) 💃🏿💃🏽💃🏼💃🏻

Today we celebrate our social, economic, and political achievements, plus bring awareness to gender parity. The World Economic Forum predicts that we won’t achieve global gender equality until 2133!

It’s not all bad news though. Woman in funeral service have been making great strides over the past 20 years. Graduating mortuary science classes are now comprised of over 70% women! The future of funeral directing is most certainly female. 💪🏻

#HisAndHearsePress #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #WomenSupportingWomen #TheFutureIsFemale #TransWomenAreWomen #MortuarySchool #MortuaryScience #FuneralDirector #Embalmer #Mortician

RT @UNCCD: Gender equality is our business, says UNCCD Deputy Executive Secretary @andreameza76 in her #WomensDay message.

Exciting new campaign coming up to empower women and girls #UNited4Land on the frontlines of land restoration. Stay tuned! #HerLand

@BonnGlobal @GlobalLF @UN_Women

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1633424456830930945