Great Million Women Rise March yesterday against violence to women. Amused and supportive shoppers on Oxford Circus , Regent St and Piccadilly Circus to boot. #internationalwomensday

Great Million Women Rise March yesterday against violence to women. Amused and supportive shoppers on Oxford Circus , Regent St and Piccadilly Circus to boot. #internationalwomensday

Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC.

Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay

Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC.

Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay

"I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively - they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you're writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgement or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman's tongue. Come out and tell us what time of night it is! Don't let us sink back into silence. If we don't tell our truth, who will? Who'll speak for my children, and yours?"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 commencement address at Bryn Mawr College (published in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places).

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #Feminism #UrsulaKLeguin #Quote #Quotes

Speaker pro tip (from a #PublicSpeaking coach):

Before my livestream appearance this morning, I watched the session ahead of mine. (At a very early hour for me, and it was worth it!)

I try to do this at live events too, up until it’s time for my pre-speaking rituals.

Getting a feel for the room’s energy helps me show up more attuned, grounded, and connected, which makes me a better speaker.

The #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay livestream (and replay later):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLlwaroFiU

Speaker pro tip (from a #PublicSpeaking coach):

Before my livestream appearance this morning, I watched the session ahead of mine. (At a very early hour for me, and it was worth it!)

I try to do this at live events too, up until it’s time for my pre-speaking rituals.

Getting a feel for the room’s energy helps me show up more attuned, grounded, and connected, which makes me a better speaker.

The #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay livestream (and replay later):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLlwaroFiU

"I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively - they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you're writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgement or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman's tongue. Come out and tell us what time of night it is! Don't let us sink back into silence. If we don't tell our truth, who will? Who'll speak for my children, and yours?"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 commencement address at Bryn Mawr College (published in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places).

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #Feminism #UrsulaKLeguin #Quote #Quotes

A reminder on International Women's Day that trans women are women, and that true feminism is intersectional.

#internationalwomensday #transwomenarewomen #intersectionalfeminism

A reminder on International Women's Day that trans women are women, and that true feminism is intersectional.

#internationalwomensday #transwomenarewomen #intersectionalfeminism