I have a confession to make. Up until today, and ironically enlightened by my husband (a dude) I always thought that IWD was just another pseudo, newly made up holiday in the inner sphere! It was today, 51 and 6 days old, that I actually researched the history. Turns out, it’s been a thing since 1908, around some of the Suffragette Movement, and officially deemed this day in March in 1977, as an International holiday. Needless to say, mind blown, and a little ashamed I haven’t been taking it serious this whole time in support of my sisterhood, and the strong, empowered, tenacious, Boss Ass Women who have fought the fight to prove one thing…WE’VE HAD THE POWER ALL ALONG! This I have always known! Pretty sure if I was born in the right decade, I totes would have been a Suffragette!

Our fight you see, I believe, has been to take it back, that frightening aura known as our power. From male dominated society, that out of fear (cause they sensed our power long ago) used the church, and culture, to ahem “keep us in our place” Thank goodness for rebellious queens. The ones who went against the grain, and endured the hardships, the arrests, the ridicule, the sacrifices for our collective future, and behold just a few generations later, look how far we’ve come. We have forced the very institutions who were instrumental in our oppression to evolve around us. We have forced evolution in barely more than a Century! How freaking powerful is that! We now have more females in leadership positions in government all over the world, and leading Fortune 500 companies than ever before in any time in history.

Man of the House…my ass! I guarantee you 90% of women run their households if they know it or not, or want to admit it. Trust me sista, if you’re reading this, your little Rome would crumble if you walked away more than 24 hours! So own it, YOU RUN YOUR EMPIRE! Be proud! We’ve earned it! Raise your daughters as strong, independent women, and my Boy Mom’s out there, raise your boys to be the men who respect a strong woman. No more of that “boys will be boys” crap! Now is our time, to continue to mold our future, and shatter those glass ceilings, we want equal pay, well guess what, I don’t foresee that being a struggle much longer, cause the ladies are large and in charge, and I guarantee are working on shooting that ceiling out first!

So in light of my enlightenment today, I assure you from now on I will celebrate International Women’s Day with a new vigor, I will shout it from the rooftops, I’ve marked all of my calendars, (it’s not on some, imagine that, still work to do ladies!)

We’re coming for you boys…#thefutureisfemale

M. ✊️👊💪🏻👑