8th March 2024, International Women's Day, #BeMoreMary

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For Women Scotland are launching #BeMoreMary. This is about Mary Gordon, an infamous yarn bomber/chalker/uppity woman. She died on International Women’s Day last year and we want to Be More Mary in 2024 in her honour.

https://forwomen.scot/02/03/2024/be-more-mary/

Mary famously had the police at her door after chalking “Women’s rights are not a hate crime” on the wall at St Andrew’s House. So please think what you can do to honour her for International Women’s Day 2024. You don’t have to be in Scotland to join in, and it can be crafts, stickers, chalking, be creative, write letters to MSP/MPs, go and see them, tie a Suffragette ribbon on their office door.

Send your photos to [email protected] or post them on Twitter using the #BeMoreMary and #IWD2024 hashtags on Friday 8th March.

Thanks for letting us know.

Also good to see women using the day to highlight what is important to them.

I have chalk!

Bump!

Bump! Not long to go all ye seditious women. 😊

She was one of my favourite Mumsnetters and a truly glorious woman.

I love the idea of trying to #BeMoreMary.

Me and mum will be being More Mary tomorrow!

Me too

She was one of my favourite Mumsnetters and a truly glorious woman.

Who was she on here?

Thanks for this.

I'm trying to be crafty, and I've got two Suffragette rosette flower thingies made from ribbons. But it turns out I am old and cannot see well enough to keep threading the needle 😁 so I'll stop there! I'll take them and my chalk out tomorrow.

A sharpie will be useful

I think her username was the same as the one she used for Twitter - fatblackcatspaw

https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1765998823531274568?s=20

Here's to us all.

For those not on twitter.

Omg there's something in my eye 😭
Fab video...

Thank you so much for this! made me cry. I've shared the crap out of it now

Keep standing sisters ❤

I don’t post much but just wanted to say this is amazing, fabulous video and poem.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Fabulous video.

A selection of photographs from the hashtag. Happy IWD!
https://forwomen.scot/08/03/2024/international-womens-day-2024-bemoremary/