Tomorrow thousands of women will take to the streets once again, as the 2019 Women’s March takes place in Washington DC and sister cities across the US and around the world, from Lusaka to Montpelier. Their first historic march was the largest single-day demonstration to ever take place in America. Two years on the event, which in 2019 promotes the activist hashtag #womenswave, is credited with contributing to real change in the US, where a record number of women have been sworn into Congress in the last month. Co-founder Carmen Perez said that in 2019, “The Women’s Wave is about transforming our principles into policies: protecting the rights of immigrant women, ensuring pay equity, standing for LGBTQIA rights, disability rights, and ending state violence.” This symbolic image, by Jane Bown, shot for the Observer in 1971 at the Women’s Liberation Movement march in London, is a powerful portrait of the ongoing, global need to fight for women’s rights, across generations and borders.
