"She walked so that I could run."
Anna Karla Carreño
This past year has been one of difficult truths, painful growth and new discoveries. As a society, the world was forced to confront our racial and gendered prejudices. The Black Lives Matter movement resurged with a vengeance, as did #TimesUp and Stop Asian Hate- and women were at the forefront of each of these movements. 2020 was definitely the year of change, and women were the pioneers of that change. All over the world, women made their voices heard, from politics, to medicine, to climate change and so much more. All over the world, women were trendsetters who broke glass ceiling after glass ceiling, not only for themselves, but for other communities. It was women like Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who mobilized voters in marginalized communities all over the United States in November. It was women like Kathrin Jansen (feat. on cover) who made medical history with the creation of the Pfizer vaccine, that was formulated to fight the world’s biggest pandemic since 1918. It was women like Greta Thunberg who continued to protest against climate change, even if it was from home.
It was women like America Ferrera and Oprah Winfrey who made waves in Hollywood, directing and producing projects by women of color, for women of color. It was women like Meghan Markle, who spoke out against the pain of the British monarchy’s racism, that allowed other women of color to speak out against institutionalized racism as a whole. It was women like Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian female Vice President of the United States, who paved the way for other to see themselves in politics. So, as a woman, what are you going to do this year? It doesn’t have to be groundbreaking or revolutionary- it can be as simple as volunteering, tutoring or existing as a marginalized person in a maledominated space. But, no matter what you do, remember that you are doing it as a woman, so that other women and girls can walk behind you a little easier.
MUUNITNOC DIVOC • 3 EGAP
THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN