Boston Women's March 2019

My own sign read "...live in a way the RESPECTS and ENHANCES the freedom of others..." which is taken from a longer quote of Nelson Mandela, "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." I felt it spoke to the multiple issues on my mind, namely the detention of migrants at the border, Black Lives Matter, and how to be an intersection feminist as a white woman.

On the back, to bring some levity, I wrote, "AVAUNT, you worm faced fellows of the night", which I could only find attributed to the Oxford dictionary's entry for avaunt (archaic word meaning "get out" or "begone"), despite seeming like it should be a Shakespeare quote.

We gathered on the Common to hear speeches, then marched en masse through the streets around the Boston Gardens and a ways down Beacon Street before looping back up and around to the Commons.