Women's March 2019

Today, I attended the now-annual Women’s March in Boston. This year’s speaking program was built around the tagline, “until all voices are heard.” And there were speakers present to represent indigenous communities, Latin immigrants, and trans-gender people. (To be sure, that’s still not nearly all voices.) The keynoter was the newly elected Ayanna Pressley, our new representative in Congress.

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