Female every day

Nancy Lord
8 min readMar 9, 2021
Photo by Melissa Westbrook on Unsplash

Twenty-nine years ago I celebrated my first International Women’s Day. The year was 1992. I was a 20 year-old college sophomore in the United States, and International Women’s Day had been in existence for 81 years.

Why did it take twenty years of me living as a girl and young woman in the world to learn about the only day of the year dedicated to celebrating women globally and heralding international calls to action for our…

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Nancy Lord

I write to witness, behold, and wrangle some sense out of the wonders, weirdnesses, and wilds of being human. Off the page: founder @asanaconsulting