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International Womens Day

I still have some more photos from the Knit Tagging expedition, but I wanted to write up a few thoughts about the Int. Womens Day events I attended.

Friday morning I attended the Unifem fundraising breakfast, along with 1500 other people. The two headline speakers, one from Israel, one from Palestine were awesome.

Saturday I went to the march in the city. Again, some very good speakers but a much more diverse crowd. The Friday morning crowd looked to be mainly office professional, with several corporate tables, assorted politicians and some private school students. The Saturday crowd was much more diverse, parents with children, a full age range, and assorted groups from Older Women's Network, Young Labor, Sex Workers and Asian women for better rates in the garment industry. I guess that is what happens when one event is free to all and the other costs $60 (although it is a fundraising event).

'No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws'

Seeing the Sex Workers group made me think of another interesting point I noted regarding one of the Breakfast sponsors. Several of the raffle prizes were provided by a lingerie company. Good, lots of fun, add some excitement to the sex life of consulting adults, I'm all for that and I'm miffed I didn't win any. It just seems hard to balance with the whole way scantily clad women are used to sell things and sadly are even sold themselves. The same morning as the breakfast two people were in the Sydney courts facing charges for being part of a sex trafficking scheme. These sex workers in the March seemed very in control of their lives, but sadly some women still don't have a choice.

Died in a Knitting accident

Always jumping on the bandwagon (just a couple of months after everyone else) I am adding to the rapid increase in # of times the above title phrase can be found when googling. It started with a cartoon from xkcd,
has been acquired by some (including me) as a justification for not blogging, and now has over 5200 hits when googled