Words and photos by Constanza Prieto One month ago, on January 20, more than 200,000 demonstrators congregated in the streets of Manhattan to be part of the 2018 Women’s March. It was a beautiful, sunny, powerful, and inspiring day. I woke up very early, as if a little girl on Christmas morning looking for her gifts. I had been looking forward to the event for weeks, when we would march for democracy and for our rights as women. This was...
By Divya Ramesh Elissa Ha, a marketing associate and activist based in Brooklyn, was one of the key organizers of the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Vietnamese refugees who migrated to the US during the Vietnam War, she moved to New York City to attend NYU in 2010. Elissa, age 25, is passionate about intersectionality, reproductive healthcare, protecting refugees’ rights, media representation, and preventing sexual assault. As she entered...