#iwd 2023

[gyudons]

happy international women’s day! apologise to a woman today

[kittyprincessofcats]

My sign for International Women's Day

[alannacouture]

Damsels in distress? Don’t make me laugh. Happy International Women’s Day!

[moondustk]

Let's appreciate SEAsian women from popular FPS games ✨

🇹🇭 Aruni - Rainbow Six Siege (voiced by Sumalee Montano) 🇸🇬 Echo - Overwatch (voiced by Jeannie Bolet) 🇵🇭 Neon - Valorant (voiced by Vanille Velasquez) 🇻🇳 Rhapsody - Apex Legends (voiced by Xanthe Huynh)

[surfingthesealand]

Doodle of IAMP British Columbia I did yesterday for International Women's Day! ♀️

[totallyhussein-blog]

Where words fail, music speaks

This is the Ashti (Peace) Choir, founded and led by Rana Sulaiman Halo. She has lived in the Khanke refugee camp in Iraq since 2014, and comes from a family of musicians.

As Alice Fordham reported for NPR, with its dirt roads and dwellings, the camp can be a bleak place. But the beat of a daf, a drum sacred to Yazidis, throbs underneath loud, energetic singing.

A dozen young Yazidi women are rehearsing folk songs. They sing about the dawn, the harvest and the Sinjar mountain the Yazidis consider holy. Sometimes their voices harmonize gently, sometimes they rise almost to a shout as the women chant.

In 2019, Rana founded the Ashti Choir, which is supported by the AMAR Foundation, a British based charity. Several women in the choir were ISIS captives and others have lost family members.

"This folk music, it's also a kind of affiliation of our religion," says Mamou Othman, who studies music as psychotherapy at the University of Dohuk. "There are special songs that only the Yazidis sing."

The choir has performed in the U.K and AMAR has also recorded Yazidi folk songs and sacred religious music, and given these recordings to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library to archive for future generations. 

For further information on AMAR’s work with the Yazidi community, please contact the AMAR Foundation by e-mail or call 0207 799 2217. You can also make a donation to the Yazidi choir through the AMAR Foundation.

[spacefruitpress]

Happy International Women’s Day 2023 to all the women in our lives who have shared in our joy, enriched our beings and helped us to reach for the stars. 

spacefruitpress.com

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating with a newly updated playlist of music performed and written by some of the women who inspire us every day, like Laurie Anderson, Julia Bullock, Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Halvorson, Emmylou Harris, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lianne La Havas, k.d. lang, Natalie Merchant, Rachael Price, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Caroline Shaw, The Staves, Molly Tuttle, Vagabon, and others. You can hear it here.