Lisette Lowe

Women's day is a protest. Although I am grateful every day of how far I have come as an individual, and how much we have achieved collectively and how much we have to be proud of, I will always have an even fiercer fire burning in me that fights for us all to be able to live dignified and safe lives. We still have so far to go - a reality we all carry within us which statistics can represent but not fully express.

I have moved in predominantly male spaces for as long as I've had hobbies and passions, whether it be music, photography, alpinism.. it can be loud and daunting at best, and hostile or exclusive at its worst. These spaces, ALL spaces, belong to us, too. I'm so grateful to all the incredibly talented, wise, kind, strong, perservering, intelligent women who have showed me what's possible and helped me along the way, and if I can mean the same to someone even in the slightest, I know we are breaking patterns beaten into us for generations and millenia, and that is such a powerful thing. Reminding myself of this not just today, but all 365 days of the year, because besides the grief and anger there is also so much hope.