Womens history month + international women's day

Hello, everyone! As it is officially the 8th of March, otherwise known as International Women's Day, there is no better time to announce that this marks a very important time known as Women's History Month. This month is all about acknowledging, highlighting and celebrating the many achievements and contributions from women around the globe. Women from so many different backgrounds & cultures have had such an impact on our world today, from making groundbreaking scientific discoveries to paving the way for multiple political movements.

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8th to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the United States as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year. In February 1980, United States President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8th, 1980, as National Women’s History Week. It was later officially established in the following years as Women's History Month.

Throughout the month, many communities, all being spearheaded by women, celebrate this occasion and highlight the impact of women throughout history and to our modern world. It is important to recognize the challenges that women have faced and continue to face in modern-day society in order to bring about real change and progression.

• https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
• https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month

International Women's Day 2025 campaign theme: Accelerate Action

FREE International Women's Day 2025 theme resources - #IWD2025

Women's History Month

Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

It has come to out attention again that people are being bullied and ganged up on for using an emote, || || Which is unacceptable no matter what. those who do it are making people feel extremely upset and unsafe which no matter the reason is NOT ok and will not be tolerated any longer. Especially since it hasn't just been the emote, people have also been ganged up on for gifs and stickers, this is unacceptable especially in this server where we will not tolerate people being bullied in chats.

I would like to start off with that someone using the emote is allowed, spamming it over and over may be something that we can ask "hey could you please not spam the emote in the chat" but SPAMMING is different! Spamming is > (just an example emoji) over and over, not using it like this or or this, etc. someone just using it like any other emoji is not the same. Not only that, gifs, stickers, and anything else are ALLOWED in general chat and daycares.

Not only that, we have always had the #♫˚slow-zone-chat➛ which the whole purpose of is to get away from any chaos, animated emotes, gifs, images, etc. while still being able to chat without feeling possibly overwhelmed or be flashed by bright images, etc. Not only that we also have fun rooms you can move to and talk to friends, and for daycares we have babysitting rooms that you can use as well. These are meant to be used to help everyone, it isn't anyone's fault if you actively choose to not use them to your full advantage.

Lastly, there are accessibility settings for this reason, it isn't anyone's fault if you do not want to use them, that is your choice; they are meant to help you and support you while using discord but if you don't want to use them then that is again your choice. NO one is saying you shouldn't be able to enjoy discord like everyone else, BUT that is the whole point of these accessibility features, it is to be able to help people enjoy discord. (image attached for accessibility options) If you need help turning them on, you can let staff know and we can try to help you, but you should be able to look up "accessibility" in your discord settings and find it!

That being said, again, we have chats and places you can go to get away from gifts, emotes, images, etc. as explained/stated, and general chat specifically people are allowed to use emotes, gifs, images, etc as long as they aren't being extremely over used/actually spamming them. If staff see that people are actively continued to be bullied and dogpiled on making them feel unsafe there will from now on be consequences as it is unacceptable to bully someone no matter what and make them feel unsafe simply because they are using something to express themselves. No one is saying that you shouldn't be accommodated but there are many options that have been given to everyone so that you can have those accommodations and be able to use discord freely, it is not anyone's right to attack people just because they used a emote, or a sticker, or whatever. If you NEED staff to intervene on something, please use our staff ping @STAFF PING if there is ever something urgent that needs to be addressed.

Please treat people with kindness.