We have always been here.

In every generation.
In every country.
In every fight.
In every story.

Women.

On October 10, women around the world are being asked to do something beautifully simple:

WEAR RED.

Red for visibility.
Red for solidarity.
Red because women will not be erased, rewritten or made invisible.

We are mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, builders, fighters, artists, athletes, workers, writers, leaders and troublemakers.

We are different in a thousand ways.

And we are united by something that needs no permission to exist.

XX.

This October 10, wear red.

Wear it loudly.
Wear it proudly.
Wear it for yourself.
Wear it for the women beside you.
Wear it for the women who came before us.
Wear it for the girls who will come after us.

Take a photo. Make a video. Tell us why you're wearing red.

Then post it and make women impossible to ignore.

We have always been here.

And we're not disappearing now.❤️ WEAR RED ON OCTOBER 10
Put it in your calendar. Tell another woman. Show up in red.📸 SHOW US YOUR RED
Post your photo or video with #XX and #ADH and tell the world why you're wearing it.

🔥 MAKE SOME NOISE
Share this video. Send it to the women you know. Put it in the group chat. Post it everywhere.

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Content note: Strong language; childhood cancer, serious family illness and lasting anxiety.The person arguing with you may never change their mind. The woman quietly reading might.

Janet Inglis keeps that woman in mind.

Known on X as @ThatAussieWoman, Janet joins Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio for a conversation that travels well beyond her public posts. There are childhood fruit trees in Bathurst, years of moving around Australia, law studies left unfinished, a business that didn't survive, and a derelict stone house she and her partner rebuilt with their own hands.

At the heart of it is her family. Janet talks about her son's childhood cancer, the strain of living apart during his treatment, and the certainty she never quite recovered. She also remembers the day an unexpected swear word made him laugh in his hospital bed. For a moment, she could feel him relax.

That same candour runs through her account of feminism and speaking up. She explains why Australian legal disputes drew her further into sex-based-rights advocacy, why she shares other women's work so freely, and why she respects the women who need to stay anonymous.

There is gardening, furniture waiting to be repaired, an early ambition to be Marilyn Monroe, and a good deal of swearing. There is also a useful reminder for anyone worn down by online arguments: the reply is sometimes for the people who never join the conversation.

Listen, read and stay connected

Follow Janet Inglis on X.

Read Janet's writing on Substack.

Explore The TERF Diaries by Addie Klein. The audiobook is being narrated by Hazel Moon Audio.

Revisit the episode thread on X.

Listen to more Red Tent Storytellers on The Scarlet Frequency.

Follow The Red Tent on X.

Women have been gathering around kitchen tables forever.

To gossip. To grieve. To argue. To organize. To feed people. To make decisions. To tell stories. To figure things out.

Ours just happens to have WiFi and women logging in from all over the world.

Pull up a chair.

There is no straight line from the person you were to the person you become.

For Nat La Pirate, the road has included growing up between cultures in Quebec, relentless bullying, martial arts, banking, political activism, Anonymous, viral digital campaigns, entrepreneurship, women’s advocacy, artificial intelligence, and eventually helping build The Red Tent Collective.

In this episode of Red Tent Storytellers, Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio finally convince Nat to step out from behind the technology and tell some of her own story.

She talks about the formidable women who raised her, the sentence from Eleanor Roosevelt that saved her adolescent life, the activism that taught her how power and algorithms operate, and the strange path that eventually turned a former banker and political troublemaker into the tech strategist women now call when they have an idea but no clue how to build it.

That path includes everything from launching the original Anonymous Quebec and campaigning against Bill C-51, to confronting her former teacher, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and asking him directly: What is a woman?

But this episode is also about what comes next.

Nat believes women are standing at another technological inflection point. Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses compete, how information travels, how people are discovered and who gets to build wealth.

Her warning is simple:

Adapt or die.

Not because every woman needs to become a programmer.

Because women cannot afford to self-exclude from the technologies that will shape the next generation.

And if there is one lesson running through Nat's life, it is this:

You can change direction.

You can start again.

You can learn the thing everyone told you wasn't for you.

There is no straight line.

Every chapter matters.

Explore Nat La Pirate's work:
Visit NatLaPirate.com
Work with Nat through TLDR Consultation
Explore Impact League

Step into The Red Tent:
Join The Red Tent Collective

Every woman has a story. We're here to tell it.