{"id":20641,"date":"2026-03-19T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=20641"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:30:54","slug":"more-than-an-isolated-struggle-why-the-8th-of-march-protests-go-beyond-female-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/20641\/more-than-an-isolated-struggle-why-the-8th-of-march-protests-go-beyond-female-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than an Isolated Struggle: Why the 8th of March Protests Go Beyond Female Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 8<sup>th<\/sup> of March it was International Women\u2019s Day. A day to celebrate womanhood but also to speak out against the struggles of FLINTA* people worldwide. FLINTA* is an in Germany invented term that has grown internationally to represent a wider range of people including women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender people and other identities that are marginalized under the patriarchy. First invented in West-German <em>Women\u2019s spaces<\/em> in the 1970s, it now became the binding community behind the 8<sup>th<\/sup> of March protests. 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