First: go us! We organized and we did it big! There were more than 600 marches all over the country, and sister marches on every continent. There were an estimated almost 3 million people marching nationally and an estimated 500,000 just marching in DC. I personally went to the march in Tucson, AZ which had an estimated 15,000 people; not a figure to be scoffed at. Some of my favorite posters were “You can’t comb over bigotry”, “I’m gay, not as in happy, but queer as in fuck you”, and “Support your sisters, not your cis-ters”.
The platform of the march was explicitly intersectional which is really cool. The less cool part of the women’s march was the discourse confusing women with vaginas. Not all women have vaginas, not all people who have vaginas are women and saying so in not only transphobic but literally reducing a woman to her body, one of the basic things I’d like to think we feminist rally against. Also, just a brief service announcement: ALL LIVES MATTER SIGNS ARE UNCOOL! Yes, all lives matter, but doing so directs the discourse away from black people, who are being massacred by the police. And yes, other people of color than black people are in danger--look at the violence happening in standing rock. But instead of using the all lives matter hashtag to talk about standing rock, admit black lives matter and then have another specific, like no dapl, or first nation lives matter. All lives matter makes you look like an ignorant asshole who’s standing up for white privilege.
In summary: good job America! You turned out and let’s do even better next time and keep organizing and being politically involved going forward.
PS: If you’re looking for the next thing to do try “10 actions in 100 days”.
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