| Summary: | Text on sign reads: "Narwhals not walls" PH Coll 1467.KinseyK754 On the second anniversary of the first Women’s March, organizers of the 2019 event, Seattle Womxn Marching Forward, planned a three day series of activities that extended from January 19th through Martin Luther King’s Day on January 21st. These included marches, activism workshops, trainings and community specific events at various venues around Seattle. The main themes for the 2019 event were centered on building power through community, protest and activism. According to the organizers statement “Building power asks us to be physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually resilient. A failing healthcare system, structural institutional oppressions such as racism and ableism, sexual harassment, intimidation and assault, gun violence, threatened autonomy over our own bodies, and stigmatization of mental health issues work against our health, safety, and well-being, and do not serve us. This year, we claim… our time to thrive is now. The keys to our collective healing and wellness lie in our ability to listen to each other, lift each other up, fight for each other, remember who we truly are, and live our greatest gifts. We claim the right to our bodies–abled, disabled, trans, cis, old, young, and beautiful–to be accepted, nourished, embraced, and ours only. We want health and wellness for every womxn.” This collection of photographs documents the rally at Cal Anderson Park culminating in a march down Pine St. and 4th Ave. to Seattle Center on Saturday, January 19th. Immigration Policy;
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