International Women’s Day is a worldwide event that involves “celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements for women.” The campaign theme for the day this year is #BeBoldForChange, a call to “help forge a better working world—a more gender inclusive world.”

Much is happening today, including a strike and protests around the world—and members of the literary community, too, are demonstrating ways one can “be bold for change.” Danuta Kean, writing for the Guardian, reports that a bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, Loganberry Books, has illustrated the gender gap in fiction by turning books by men around to have their spines and covers face the wall, making only books by women visible.

“Pictures are loud communicators,” Harriett Logan, the bookstore’s founder and owner, told the website Heat Street. “In essence [we are] not just highlighting the disparity but bringing more focus to the women’s books now, because they’re the only ones legible on the shelf.” (Learn more about the display and controversy around it at the Guardian.)

As expected, many websites and newspapers are also sharing book lists featuring women writers, which include sci-fi writers, black writers, writers of color, international writers (including books longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction), and many more.

Organizations are hosting events, too. In Staunton, Virginia, All Girls Conference is sponsoring Turn Up the Volume at Staunton Public Library tonight, an open mic event featuring people of all ages reading work by female authors.

According to Bustle, the website Tor.com is running a flash fiction event named “Nevertheless She Persisted,” which will feature work from Charlie Jane Anders, Brooke Bolander, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, Kameron Hurley, Seanan McGuire, Nisi Shawl, Catherynne M. Valente, Carrie Vaughn, Jo Walton, and Alyssa Wong. As the Washington Post explains, the words, “Nevertheless, she persisted” became a battle cry after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Senator Elizabeth Warren in the middle of a speech in which she was criticizing attorney general Jeff Sessions.

“Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech,” he said, in his defense. “She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”

Related reading: Why are women on strike? Phoebe Lett gives her opinion at the New York Times. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Cobbs argues in The Hill that the rights of American women still lag far behind those of women in other countries. Moria Forbes, writing for Forbes, argues just the opposite: that there are at least seven reasons to be optimistic about the future of women.

Image Credit: Heatstreet.