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Why do I celebrate International Women’s Day? When this question was posed to me, I paused for a minute. It almost felt like a loaded question. ‘Why’ is IWD an important day for ‘me’ as a British Asian woman? Each year, this day marks a movement of sorts and starts conversations that go on to…
As part of our series on International Women’s Day, we’re exploring how women identify and balance their personal identities. Photographer Nathan McGill – currently based in Birmingham – has been documenting what it means to be a Black woman embodying natural Afro hair; celebrating the beauty of African and Caribbean women through visual representation, in this case, photography.
International Women’s Day on March 8th provides an important opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements while calling for greater equality. This year’s 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual, a message reflecting an equal world being an enabled world.
International Women’s Day returns next week, celebrating and highlighting the achievements of women across the globe. The annual event’s theme is #BeBoldForChange this year, calling on the masses “to help forge a better working world – a more gender inclusive world”.