And that’s it from us! Thanks for joining us on the 2019 Women’s March - we will be back in full force next year!
Can’t make it to the ‘Bread and Roses’ Women’s March on Saturday? Follow Stylist’s liveblog here.
The global Women’s March started in January 2017 as a reaction to the inauguration of Donald Trump. Last year, the march took place in summer, asking us all to #BringTheNoise while Trump visited the UK.
And this year, on 19 January, we carried on the tradition with the Bread and Roses rally. Drawing on a long history of women’s protest, the phrase ‘bread and roses’ was first used in 1911 by Rose Schneiderman, a suffragist and union organiser in the US, who argued that all women deserved joy, pleasure and opportunity as well as the bare necessities for survival.
“What the woman who labours wants is the right to live, not simply exist,” Schneiderman said in a speech. “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.”
“We’re building on the bread and roses theme, not adopting it wholesale,” Women’s March organiser Aisha Ali-Khan tells Stylist. “We want to use the history, the movement, but bring it up to date.”
Because Team Stylist doesn’t just talk the talk, we once again walked the Women’s March in London, calling for a better quality of life for women everywhere.
Here is everything that happened during the event:
A word from our Editor-in-Chief Lisa Smosarski: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs0angdABow/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=yoyj6rtya5g8
If you need something to light a fire in your belly, look this way...
It’s amazing to be part of a movement like this.
Interested in learning more about the suffragist who inspired this year’s Women’s March on London? We’ve got you covered: https://www.stylist.co.uk/visible-women/who-is-rose-schneiderman-bread-and-roses-quote-womens-march-london/244926
WE are change.
The one and only Helen Pankhurst is taking to the stage.
(Amazing speeches at the Women’s March, as ever)
“Women will rebuild the world together as feminists,” adds Sophie Running.
“We need to hear women’s voices in the corridors of power,” says Dawn Butler Brent.
Women in over 30 countries around the world have gathered as part of the global Women’s March, to protest against violence against women and the impact of policies of austerity. That’s no small thing.
There is solidarity in union.
Sarah Green, of the End Violence Against Women coalition, says: “Austerity has been devastating for the life-saving services women rely on.
“Specialist support created by and for women and girls in their communities providing counselling, safe housing, legal help and places of safety have all struggled to stay open because funding has been torn away.”
“In every bloody country, women rise up!”
That’s what we’re chanting out here.
“She’s someone” - #womensmarch2019 #breadandroses via @t.ahliaa
There’s a brilliant feeling of solidarity in London today.
“We are not ovary-acting”
https://twitter.com/kat_night/status/1086610029761966080?s=20
We’re so proud to be a part of the resistance!
And there’s some beautiful banners being waved by our sisters all over the world, too. Check out this one from Germany: https://twitter.com/gerlindeschroen/status/1086606044590153728?s=20
Dr Mos-Shogbamimu adds: “We know that post-Brexit Britain will not be any better for women unless assurances are put in place to protect us. Yet none of the conversations happening at the moment are focusing on the impact of women and I find that absolutely ridiculous.”
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, the founder of the Women in Leadership publication and co-organiser of Women’s March London, says: “The 1912 bread and roses march revolutionised workers’ rights for women and once again on Saturday women are leading the way in the fight against austerity.
“We see women bearing the brunt of the economic and social impact of austerity and we know that after Brexit women will bear the brunt of the fallout. Our lives are being held to ransom because of politics.”
People are chanting the words: “2, 4, 6, 8! It costs too much to menstruate!”
Some more brilliant banners. Everyone truly DOES deserve a bloody good period.
A picture really IS worth a thousand words!
Organisers of this year’s march says they have chosen Schneiderman’s iconic words to reflect marchers’ “hunger to thrive and not just survive on bread”.
For those who aren’t sure what today’s “bread and roses” theme is all about, it is in honour of suffragette and workers’ rights campaigner Rose Schneiderman, who, after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 where 146 mainly female garment-industry workers died, declared: “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.”
Today’s #breadandroses rally marks the third anniversary of the first Women’s March in 2017, when as many as 6 million people around the world gathered in protest at the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
For the rising of the women means the rising of the race!
We’re loving this placard from @ellen_f, clearly inspired by the feminist tour de force that is Ariana Grande! #thankunext
It’s time to march - and, once again, Team Stylist is leading the charge with some pretty amazing banners!
Main image: Getty Images
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