International Woman’s Day. All my life when women ask if I have siblings and I reply three brothers, the next thing they always say is your poor mother. I think this accurate. She always picked up after us. I remember one day there was an abrupt announcement from now on put your own dishes away. I thought this unfair. Hadn’t she always done it? What makes this moment so different? Why change the system? Because the system needed changing but that was not so understandable from my position in grade 9. Not so easy being a woman in a home with five men and me sometimes angrily blasting Mother by John Lennon on ten.