Celebrating Women – A Women’s History Month Initiative

Last year, my best friend from the fellowship was doing an independent study – to trace the history of women in her family. 

While researching, she came across a couple of vintage family group photographs of the pre-Partition era. And she noticed something odd: 

Beneath those photographs, there were names of only the male members. 

No. Female. Names. 

Struck by this, I remember her tell me, how the lives of men were documented so well and the women of the yore weren’t even worth a mention. 

A year later, I decided to do some digging of my own ancestry. 

As I come from a matriarchal community, I thought I’d be luckier and I could find more about my female ancestors. 

To a major extent, all thanks to my maternal granduncle, I was able to trace back my ancestry up to my grandmother’s great-grandmother. 

Yet, when I tried tracing further, right down to my ancestral roots, you know what happened? 

I came across one potential ancestor, who was a guy. 

It’s odd, isn’t it? 

I come from a matriarchy and there’s no mention of a woman beyond my grandmother’s great-grandmother. But there’s a warrior guy, who could potentially be our ancestor. 

Isn’t it weird how little we know of women’s histories? 

Which is why, I decided:

For this March, also known as the Women’s History Month, I have decided to Celebrate Women

. 

I will talk about the legacy of women across the world and their stories. I want to highlight their stories and the messages their lives hold for us.

If you want, you can join me too! 

All you have to do is: 

1. Post a picture on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter OR write a blog post about women you’d like to talk about. These women could be famous or ones in your family/friends circle.
2. Tell why you love those women and one key quality that they had you were inspired by 
3. Nominate 5-10 people to do the same! 

Hope to see you be a part of this experience! 

Stay awesome as ever,

Much love,

Archie <3