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Women’s Day and Women’s Power in India

     Happy (day after) International Women's Day all! Women's Day is a day that I feel very deeply. I feel happy and proud to be part of the badass community that all women create. In recent years, since the election of 2017, my Women’s Day vibe, and I’m sure the vibe of many other American women, has grown more intense. Women’s Day will always be about appreciatinga honouring women. Recently, it has also become something of a protest, or political statement. 366 days ago, on 2018’s IWD, purple was the decided “unity color”. I was sitting in my homeroom class of Mount Abe with a tube of purple lipstick. I drew the sign of women on the cheeks of my friends and a few guys who wanted in. We walked trough the hallway like a purple, feminist army highfiving all others wearing purple t-shirts.      The word “women” has no one definition. Millions of lifestyles, opinions, and ambitions belong to the word. In the last few years I have gotten older and realized it was my time to start