Celebrating  International Women’s Day  2022 Clarissa Scott Delany was 26 when she died in 1927. An African American poet, essayist and social worker, she was associated with the Harlem Renaissance Movement and the Women’s City Club of New York.*  Her poem, ‘Joy’, is simple and powerful, and describes how she pushes herself to laugh and sing her way out of despair. Too long have I walked a desolate way Too long stumbled through a maze Bewildered Is this how we feel as we come out of the pandemic and see what’s going on in the world? Unsure, anxious, and often horrified by terrible news. As women are being hurt, constrained and oppressed in so many ways, do we need to begin the struggle all over again? Why is it so difficult and what can we do? There’s no doubt that things are grim at the moment; but we can find joyful and celebratory moments. There are opportunities to grasp, to hold on to and to remind us of why we are feminists. One of those moments is coming up very soon. Internat