wake up women

Dublin, 1956
Not so long ago, in Ireland, there was one, in between
many institutions belonging to The Holy Christian
Church where women and young girls would be sent to
when they misbehaved: The magdalene institution for
charity.
In that official institution they would remain, most
times for the rest of their lives, working really hard
and being beaten as a punishment to their bad conduct
so they could achieve salvation and enter the kingdom
of God. That institution worked as a laundry and the
people of Dublin would pay good money for their good
service as helping the good church would also give you
credits in the good way to the good God.

Inside the walls of the convent, the young ladies
faced fear, guilt and misery. They were beaten when
menstruating as that was considered a sin, and made to
work harder when they would show emotions.
Their heads were shaved, their bodies humiliated and
covered in a long black dress, a nun's dress.

Most of these girls, young women, were not allowed to
talk to each other, so it took them a long time to
discover the reasons why they were there in the very
first place. But with time they came to realise that
each one of them, regardless of their differences, had
three things in common: they were sent their by their
fathers, they were not guilty of their circunstance
which happened around a man, and they had to pray in
the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.

Most women were raped and pregnant women.
They were God's Women.

Kabul, 2006

In Afeghanistan, now, even with some of the American
and British army present on land to theoretically stop
the Taliban force, there remains the strongest culture
of women's oppression.
Women, and young girls, are being killed every day for
attempting education, liberation or changing their
clothes.
Forced to wear the burkha, a very long dress quite
similar to a nun's, the women live hidden, feeling
guilty and afraid.

There are some organizations working on women
empowerment creating secret schools for girls, giving
them hope and dreams.
Some of those girls are able to go into the army which
is a lucky chance opening and granting them some
opportunity for learning and personal development
outside marriage life.

Most women are raped, and all of their marriages are
arranged, many times to much older man. Most women are
beaten.
One woman per week kills herself in Kabul.

They are Allah's Women.

London 2006

There are women dressed up in many different fashions.
Women are free to choose what they want to wear from
the big shops. Women are free to work to buy what they
want to buy from the big shops.

Women go to schools. They are teachers, and
headteachers.
They go to universities. They get big jobs.

The big shops are run by men. The education system is
run by men.
Women represent 20% in Parliament. Only 1 in 5 big
companies are run by women in London.


There are 30 000 women per year estimated to come
into mental houses in the UK due to rape.

They are Godless women.

Lisbon 2006

Abortion is not allowed.
Christianism survives.

3000 women die per year due to home made abortions.

Today at 7.30pm
on an audition:

I say: I am a feminist.
Director says: Oh, I think we should look for
equality.
Don't you think that's a bit fundamentalist?

I say: Fundamentalist? No. It's just the only
fundamental fucking response in the fucking
fundamentalist world we're living in.

How do you think you gonna kill a lion? With a
Kitten's paw?

Dublin, Kabul, London, Lisbon, It Does Not Fuck Ing
Matter

Stop the pain away. Kill fear. Empower women.

Wake up: this is still the same world and the same
age.

Ps: Didn't get the job.