23/09/2020
No deep captions again today. Just thought I’d take you through the process of how I decided to caption this post.
Initially I wanted to caption this WCW. I probably still do but then a little part of my heart just sank when I realized that actually, we can celebrate our femininity all we want but it doesn’t numb the reality of the daily struggles we still face as women in South Africa. Today I woke up to a ‘how to protect yourself in an uber’ thread, and a few ‘I cancelled the ride because my gut feeling was telling me to’ thread. I also noticed a few ‘men don’t go around touching other men on the waist when they ask you to move so why do they do that to women’ thread.. my heart sank because I wanted to caption WCW so badly in celebration of how far we have come but the reality hit real quick.. I’ll still caption WCW though because I guess I never realized the importance of being grateful that I actually lived to see another day today.. so happy Wednesday beautiful people. Yet again we have lived to see another day. Stay safe. Stay queening. Today I celebrate all the women I know, you are my WCWs today, keep conquering, we might not win the war today but maybe someday we will.
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