THE WORDS OF THE PATRIARCHY DO NOT REPRESENT US.
Arcigay Transfeminist Women's Network for November 25, 2021 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
THEY TELL US WE ARE…
Weak
Employees
Fickle
Easy
Passive
Hysterical
Exasperating
Frigid
Acid
Stupid
Victims
INSTEAD WE ARE…
Powerful
Emancipate
Self-determined
Free
Angry
Combative
Resistant
Rebels
Sisters
Transfeminists…
Above all, they need us to be QUIET…
but we will NEVER be SILENT.
Arcigay Rete Donne Transfemminista's campaign for November 25, 2021—the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women—was created to expose the patriarchal words that don't speak for women but are used to stigmatize, disempower, control, and blame them. By opposing the words imposed on us with those we choose because we feel they belong to us, we want to tell our story, rewrite, and transform the story that condemns us to suffering and death, celebrating women's empowerment and, with it, our rebellion, our resistance, our self-determination, our power, our sisterhood.
