Tarana Burke
Nikole Hannah Jones
Kamala Harris
Stacey Abrams
Greta Thunberg
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Sherilynn Ifill
Angela Davis
Cory Bush
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Oprah Winfrey

Your mother. Your grandmother. Your aunt. Your sister. Your neighbor. Your trailblazer.

Today is International Women's Day.

Some of the names of women who have quietly and loudly changed the world, we know.

MOST of the women who have quietly and loudly changed the world, we don't know.

YOU know them.

Today is their day. Every day is their day.

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p.s. I acknowledge that my list of names is mainly American/Western centric...which I don't like. By this time next year, I'm vowing to myself to learn the names of world-changing women from the diaspora and beyond.



"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly