Super callous racist fascist extra braggadocious: Desi voices from Washington's Womens March
‘Super callous racist fascist extra braggadocious’: Desi voices from Washington's Women’s March
An estimated 500,000 women, including several of South Asian origin, gathered to march against Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants and women.
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Kavya Balaraman
On the night that Donald Trump was elected the president of the United States, Manisha Gandhi, Delhi resident-turned-New Yorker, could not believe what she was seeing on the news. As someone who grew up in Delhi, Gandhi was no stranger to the subtle and direct harassment that women experience on a daily basis – on the streets, but also in their schools, workspaces and families. Even so, she said, she couldn’t stomach the fact that someone who had used such misogynistic rhetoric on the campaign trail, mocked women on television and bragged of sexual assault on a recording, was the newly-elected president.
“I come from a developing country, and yet we saw a woman prime minister elected there,” she said. “It’s really sad that America couldn’t elect a woman president this year.”
It was this sentiment that prompted Gandhi to travel from New York to Washington DC the day after Trump’s inauguration ceremony, to attend the Women’s March. Manisha brought her 10-year-old son with her, and proudly sported a sign that read “I should not be marching here for women’s rights in 2017”.
She was joined by hundreds of thousands of women in Washington DC, as well as millions more in the US and all across the world. Women’s marches were conducted in several major metropolises the day after Trump’s inauguration, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. According to one estimate, around 4 million protesters took to the streets across the country. Everywhere, protesters echoed the same sentiment – that they were against everything that the Trump presidency stands for.
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