In It. Together.

On International Women’s Day.

New York City
January 2017

The Women’s March in January was epic. And I was there along with millions of others, snapping over 250 photos of people carrying signs, chanting, smiling and reveling in the togetherness that we all felt on that unseasonably warm January day in New York. Around the globe, people did the same thing: they came together. In Alaska, they marched. In Australia, they marched. In India, they marched and yes, even in Iraq they marched for women’s rights. 

There’s something happening. The plates of tolerance for what has long been regarded as normal are shifting, sliding and making noise that won’t relent. The voices that filled streets around the world on January 21st are getting louder, not solely because of anger or rage, although they are certainly factors, but because more people - men and women - are coming together to fight for the equality that shouldn’t even be a question in 2017. But it is. So we fight not for what we deserve, but for what we should have had all along: equality. Happy International Women’s Day.