ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one form of mnemonic practice that has received much recent media attention, namely the women’s march. Communications technologies and new social media ensure the global interconnection of continuing activisms, built on the legacies of past movements. The practice of gathering in a public place to make a political point has been referred to as a ‘demonstration’ since the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of the Women’s Marches capture protestors in diverse geographical sites forming ‘seas of pink’ as they donned the knitted caps that have become known as ‘pussyhats’. While the term ‘intersectionality’ may have seemed relatively new to the mainstream Anglophone media, the phrase had been used for several decades in academic feminist circles. History weighed heavily on Hillary Rodham Clinton. There was constant speculation as to whether she would make history by becoming the first female President of the USA.
