A march will take place on International Women’s Day in Bristol to remember women who lost their lives to male violence in 2022. A list of 107 women killed in 2022 has been compiled by Karen Ingala Smith, who began counting them in 2009 and co-founded what is now the Femicide Census.
The Bristol Feminist Collective, which is organising the March 8 demonstration, is encouraging people to bring candles, lights, placards and signs. The march starts at 6pm on College Green with 107 lilies being held up to represent each woman murdered last year in the UK.
Organisers say they hope to raise awareness of ‘the dangerous society women and others subjected to misogyny live in and to wake people from the false idea that feminism has already achieved its goal’. The route of the march and the speakers are yet to be confirmed.
