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Women
can do it!
This year International
Women’s Day is happening in the same month as Zimbabwe’s
harmonised elections. As we commemorate this important day, we encourage
you to Get out the Vagina Vote. That’s right. We’ve
said it - The Vagina Vote. This is a campaign conceptualised by
controversial women’s rights activist, Eve Ensler and is centred
on ending violence against women and girls. It is the belief that
a new paradigm can manifest itself in a political as well as spiritual
form. It is the decision to ask those running for office as well
as those already in office to make ending violence against girls
and women a priority.
On March 29
do not vote for a woman just for the sake of it. Vote for the woman
you feel will deliver the goods. Also take this approach with the
male candidates running for office. How well have you informed yourself
about your presidential candidate, Member of Parliament or your
Councillor? How well have you interrogated and investigated their
record or their stance on issues relating to gender empowerment?
It is important that you don’t vote
blindly. It’s important that when you choose a candidate
you choose someone who cares about the issues that are important
to you.
We encourage
you to celebrate International Women’s Day by demanding your
rights, respecting your bodies and above all, loving them. On Election
Day we encourage you to Vote with your Vagina – make sure
the rights of women are on your candidates list of priorities.
Because women's
work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious
and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more
important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and
if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our
voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos
and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because
we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too
many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare
we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive
and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak
females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man
and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get
an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and
if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel
guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part
of the women's liberation movement.
~ Author unknown, (quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987).
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