Andrea Bottner

1 month ago | iwf.org | Mallory Sailer |Andrea Bottner |Meaghan Mobbs

On this International Women’s Day, social media will be flooded with speeches, press releases, and hashtags about “empowerment” and “equity.” The United Nations will host panel discussions and promote another initiative in the name of “gender equality.” But these gestures, performative at best, do nothing to stop or call attention to the violence that defines reality for so many women around the world.