Tomorrow, March 8, is International Women’s Day. And it’s not as bogus as it sounds.

International Women’s Day is an official holiday in over 20 countries, including China, Italy, Cuba, and Russia (here, it’s whatev).

The good news is that UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, went for a bold move for good ol’ IWD ‘08 in letting it coincide with the “Say NO to Violence Against Women Campaign.” P.S. Whose sick of “say no to ____”-slogans? Everyone.

I guess it’s working in China though, where more than 125,000 Chinese added their signatures to the online petition. Yesterday, Austria donated 10,000 Euro to the fund.

The U.S.? Psh. Either the UN still doesn’t interest us, we don’t agree with celebrating a holiday with socialist roots (equality is overrated), or we have something against Nicole Kidman (Tom, did you do this?).

Yep, she’s the campaign spokesperson. I really like Nicole Kidman, mostly based off the Batman movie from 1989 with Val Kilmer where she played a sharp journalist.

All I know is, for IWD I’m going to do my part.

• Give my mom some non-gendered woman’s gift.
• Posting the link to the campaign website/petition to sign: www.saynotoviolence.org
• Wreaking havoc tonight/tomorrow with my lady friends.

Happy woman day!