#8M - Sisterhood
Channel: Pressenza IPA
Date: 2022-03-08

More than 80 women from all over the world - activists, doctors, housewives, journalists, students, artists, translators... of different ages and backgrounds - have composed this collective video to mark International Women’s Day.

The project is based on the poem of the same title, Sorority, by our colleague Juana Pérez Montero, which highlights the historical role of women as caretakers of life, and the strength they mobilise when they move away from patriarchal models and work with others in a collaborative way.

Below the poem, you can find links to the other nine languages in which it is available.

Poem by Juana Pérez Montero
Translation by Jon Swinden
Editor: Álvaro Orus | Graphics: Alicia Blanco

Thank you to the following for the photographs:
Bianca Araújo, Yerson Retamal and Inno Joseph on Pixabay, Bournemouth Borough Council, Aeneas of Troy, Mídia Ninja, Fotografías Emergentes, UN Women/Johis Alarcón and UmaBista, Paulo Slachevsky and Rafael Edwards, on Flickr and Singkham on Pexels.

PARTICIPANTS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):
Vandana Shiva, Adriana Heery, Genevieve Balance Kupang, Bongiwe Matsoha, Gemma Bird, Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Makoma Lekalakala, Natsuko Ohta, Maura Heery, and Karina Lagdameo Santillan.

Sisterhood

We are the thread that binds
that mends wounds
making bodies stronger,
with dispossessed souls,
which nurture and develop limbs
that protect and sooth,
that open and extend
without limit or measure,
that touch and entwine
weaving a strong mesh
so that none of us would 
ever fall a victim again

We are the burgeoning vessel
which lacks no sustenance.
We are the sacred fountain
from which life flows
when we give birth,
when we offer smiles,
when we put  our bodies
to save the lives of others,
when in the face of the oppressor
we sing all together:

We will never be silent, never
Never again will one of us remain alone
Not one less,
Not one more,
We are One,
We are All

Arabic: https://youtu.be/F2Brg7uuaY8 
Spanish 1: https://youtu.be/wUf-LNJCi-A 
Spanish 2: https://youtu.be/p2CZDhWboTE 
French: https://youtu.be/A1PpvmoTUNo
English: https://youtu.be/jQnQ0R2wMc8 
Italian: https://youtu.be/lTk2xJDZC1s
Japanese: https://youtu.be/_6Xg6xdvt1M
Portuguese: https://youtu.be/vxfSl-2RfF8
Russian: https://youtu.be/O92QOZ6easE