I marched in 1989 in the March for Women’s Lives, did abortion clinic defense and client escorting in inner city Newark and Jersey City, NJ. I had a subscription to the obscure Feminist Philosophy journal Hypatia. I’ve been mindful of pro-feminist dialog for decades and am still in contact with my Politics & Sex professor from 1988.

And yet, like others here, I don’t really know what this march is about. I know what it could be about, and I know that women will be wearing “pussy hats”. But, like others here, I don’t feel the same sense of unity of mind and spirit as the 1989 march.

This march is a good thing to blow off some steam. But without a unified theme, it will perhaps go down as “that march after the inauguration… whatever.” In the future, people will ask, “Did you go to that march after the inauguration?”. People will answer the question of where they got that wool hat with the kitty ears with, “Oh, I got that for that march after the inauguration.”

Shani, I sympathize with your sentiment and the cause for which you demonstrate. But this article does little to fill in the verse:

What do we want?
_____________
When do we want it?
Now!

When you get that figured out, I’ll join in the chorus. I’m already an ally, in principle.