This week began with International Women's Day, supposedly a day to celebrate. This year's theme was 'choose to challenge'. But towards the end of the week, celebration has turned to mourning, anger and frustration. It’s all connected. As the evidence published by the UN and WHO shows, most women have been subjected to gender-based violence. This is what underpins the compulsion to share, the urge to testify.
Headphones in, no music on. Not drinking too much. Putting a skirt on, taking it off before you leave the house in favor of trousers. Calling someone so you aren’t"alone." Walking the long way home because it’s better lit. Wondering if the"keys between fingers thing" really works. Wondering if the taxi you’re clambering into is safe. Having fun but keeping one eye, always, on your drink. Exhausting.
From a young age, women are warned. We remember every worst-case scenario story, it imprints on us. We are told to be vigilant, to modify our behavior in order to avoid male violence. We try to forget, to live our lives, but we never really do. All it takes is an unwanted approach in the street, a random outburst from a man you don’t know because you didn’t acknowledge his advances and we remember. Oh, we remember.
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