It is high time we stop, as
women,
really focusing on ourselves when it
comes to International Women's Day...going to
a women's meeting and just talking amongst
ourselves. Most times you see 50 activists
in a room. It is like the choir or the converted
just talking to the converted. I think it's
time that we open up some of these women's  spaces,
bring in men so that really there's an understanding
of why we do the kind of work that we do.
Keeping them outside of our space is not going
to help us. Really bringing them to understand
what we're going through or what the complexities
of our lives are will get us to get some form
of alliances or system of alliance from them.
If we just stay back and keep them at arms'
length we'll never get to the place that we
want to get to.
