Women's March Madness
I was going to name this March Mad MESS but it wasn't THAT extremely bad On Saturday, January 21, 2007, I attended the Women's March on Washington, D.C. Here are my thoughts: As soon as the opportunity came, I hopped on it without hesitation for multiple reasons. 1. I am a feminist, 2. I always wanted to go to D.C. and was planning on going later this year, and 3. because uniting together for all women is something I stand for 100%. However after evaluating my decision, I was wishing I would have put more thought behind it. I started seeing other feminist and activists stand against going to the Women's March not only in Washington but sister marches all over the world as well. Mostly because they feel like history is repeating itself. Quick history lesson: the feminist movement has a rep of being "a white woman's movement" and I don't blame them for viewing it as that... honestly, it is/was. For many ...