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Mar. 8th, 2020 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12Happy International Women's Day to all women, but in particular to two groups of women whose experiences and work really resonate with me:
To my fellow migrant women who crossed oceans and borders for love, opportunity, adventure, or for grim necessity, in the face of (at best) bureaucratic indifference and incompetence and (at worst) vicious, violent hostility. Home is the place and the people we choose, in spite of all the obstacles put in front of us.
To the women who do the quiet, often unacknowledged, unglamorous, everyday work of building, sustaining and connecting that holds families, communities, workplaces, and countries together. I see you. To me, your work is the most important in the world.
I think of — and value — these two overlapping groups of women every single day.
To my fellow migrant women who crossed oceans and borders for love, opportunity, adventure, or for grim necessity, in the face of (at best) bureaucratic indifference and incompetence and (at worst) vicious, violent hostility. Home is the place and the people we choose, in spite of all the obstacles put in front of us.
To the women who do the quiet, often unacknowledged, unglamorous, everyday work of building, sustaining and connecting that holds families, communities, workplaces, and countries together. I see you. To me, your work is the most important in the world.
I think of — and value — these two overlapping groups of women every single day.
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