21 will hear her views on the pussyhats, and also about the misconceptions she says are so common about Black Lives Matter, and about the need for people of color and diversity in elected office. Those who come to to the state Capital Jan. "I will say this one thing: It is a problem," Erby said. LaShawn Erby, co-chair of Black Lives Matter-Lansing, declined to talk about her views on pussyhats because the topic is a cornerstone of the speech she plans to give at the Jan. Some handed out pussyhats free to other marchers not only in Washington, but at sister marches in Lansing, Detroit and Ann Arbor.īut since then, the idea has begun to sour among some feminists. Knitters made the hats by the dozen, selling pussyhats online and donating proceeds to Planned Parenthood. The hats were so popular in the run up to the 2017 Women's March on Washington that there was a run on hot pink yarn in Michigan. The discussions are around what is this word, what does it mean? A lot of it is constructive dialogue." These are conversations we all need to have. "Pussy is a very charged word I'm now very used to saying it, but it's interesting to hear people talk about the word, and how they feel about the word. The word ‘pussy' is often used in a derogative way," Zweiman told the Free Press in a January 2017 interview. "The original hat has these adorable cat ears, so ‘pussyhat' also is a play on ‘pussy cat.'. "I care more about mobilizing people to the polls than wearing one hat one day of the year." "I personally won’t wear one because if it hurts even a few people's feelings, then I don't feel like it’s unifying," said Phoebe Hopps, founder and president of Women's March Michigan and organizer of anniversary marches Jan. The reason: The sentiment that the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink.
The focus during this Women's March reboot is to register more women to vote, and to elect women and progressive candidates to public office.īut this time when marchers take to the streets in cities from Lansing to Las Vegas, there could be fewer pink pussyhats in the crowds. The Women's March is back in 2018 with its Power to the Polls anniversary protests on the weekend of Jan. A year ago, they stormed the streets of big cities and small towns to make their views known: Women's rights are human rights. Many wore on their heads what became the de-facto symbol of feminism in 2017, the pink pussyhat.
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