"Grab your protest signs and your favorite feminist manifesto, because this episode of The Unveiled Mind is about to drop some her-story that your textbooks conveniently left out. That’s right—we’re diving into the wild, rebellious origins of International Women’s Day, and spoiler alert: it wasn’t just about brunch specials and corporate hashtags. Nope. This holiday was cooked up by radical women of color, queer trailblazers, and socialist firebrands who wanted way more than just ‘equal pay’ (though, you know, that’d be nice too).*

From the garment worker strikes of 1908 New York (shoutout to the real OG squad—Black and immigrant women who literally died for the cause), to the Danish suffragettes who basically said, ‘Hey, why don’t we just make a whole day for this?’— ...