“We deserve to function in society as something that is constant, not ephemeral” – said the writer on Saturday during the 17th Congress of Women, this year organized in Katowice.
The Nobel Prize winner in the field of literature has expressed the belief that women have managed to achieve a lot in recent years. “We are stronger than we were at the beginning,” she said, recalling the times when she started her writing career.
Tokarczuk admitted that she was also accompanied by bitter reflections – she said that women's organizations should create institutions, root in them and demand that their activities be well financed. She added that she wondered what happened to the strike of women, who – in her opinion – should be an institution today, with her building, in which work on postulates has been underway for years.
“This game with politics resembles an unsuccessful dance – one leg forward, someone puts my leg, nothing comes out of it, we rotate not in this direction. I am already years old, I have the right to be pissed off, I have the right to be tired” – added Tokarczuk.
“I demand, I want – and I hope that you will join me – that the Congress of Women becomes a decent, powerful institution that has their own building in Warsaw, their library, their canteen, which has their place where women and men work on doing something specific, to be treated all the time as seriously treated to influence politics. We need to function in society as something that is ephemeral ” – said the writer. She expressed the hope that soon the Congress of Women would turn into such an institution financed by the state.
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The Congress of Women will last until Sunday. It consists of conversations, focusing on topics related to, among others with security, politics, economics, the situation of women in business and in the labor market, culture, education and health. Participants of the meeting also talk about counteracting violence and support of people with disabilities, the rights of LGBT+persons, civil society and refugees.
