No. Worse! It’s like an extreme sport at the point of sudden death when you know the odds are stacked against you, so high that there is definitely no winning. You know how in some sports, when there is a tie, sudden death is when a play ends as soon as one of the players is ahead of the other?! But in this game, there is no landslide for women. Just a constant egging. Like we are in a perpetual struggle or antagonism, fashioned against us, from it’s very inception.
Women, the world over are reorganising, altering and reshaping their political struggles in the new world. A world that is coming for our necks, our skirt lengths, our skin tones, our sexual preferences, our Facebook posts, our ideas, our solidarity, our silence, our love affairs, our ways of gaining economic security, and our means of climbing up ladders or sliding under sheets. Women are literally dying for everything We are moving beyond fighting for women’s rights to be acknowledged as human rights to actually just constantly negotiating ourselves into waking up the next day, and sometimes just walking out of houses, or across the road. We are literally struggling to stay alive. Can you hear us choking? Burning? Bleeding?
