{"id":53603,"date":"2020-02-03T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=53603"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T23:55:15","slug":"womens-march-expands-in-its-fourth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2020\/02\/03\/womens-march-expands-in-its-fourth-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s March expands in its fourth year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marching on City Hall <\/strong>Chantal Chagnon, front left, and Adora Nwofor, front right, lead the Women’s March in Calgary on Jan. 18. This is the fourth year the march has taken place. (Photo by Jayme D. Tucker\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

J<\/span>an. 18 marked the fourth year of the Women\u2019s March in Calgary.<\/p>\n

O<\/span>riginally started as a solidarity event with women marching in Washington, D.C., in 2017, it has grown into an event with seminars, performances, and exhibitions.<\/p>\n

Approximately 120 people marched down Stephen Avenue to city hall where speakers addressed the gathered crowd.<\/p>\n

Activist Izzy Stoodley was a late addition to the roster, and addressed the marchers.<\/p>\n

Stoodley sees the event as a continuation of efforts to bring together different organizations and people.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeminism at its core is the opportunity for us to fundamentally question what we take for granted as a society and make something better out of it.<\/p>\n

“It may not be comfortable all the time but it\u2019s necessary if we want to improve in the ways I think we need as a society to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On speaking terms <\/strong>Activist Izzy Stoodley in the Central Library on Jan. 18. Stoodley was an impromptu speaker at the Women’s March this year. (Photo by Jayme D. Tucker\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year the organization Taking Strides<\/a> facilitated a day of speakers and performances focused on uplifting marginalized groups, at the Calgary Central Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s great for women of colour to be able to participate for others to see themselves represented, and having a voice.\u201d said Ado Nkemko, a singer-songwriter who performed at the library as part of the black caucus of presenters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important to have race be present in the conversation because as women we go through the same experiences with patriarchy. Within that there are differences in the challenges we face as women of colour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event featured drag performers, artists, dancers, and an effort to include under-served sections of Calgary\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a daughter and I feel like these things are important,\u201d said artist Adrianne Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I like to see when people give humanization to different people. When you see that you say, ‘hey, I see myself in that.’ Race is at the forefront because we need to see ourselves in our art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Art for art’s sake: <\/strong>Artist Adrianne Williams poses beside one of her pieces on display at the Central Library in Calgary on Jan. 18. Williams was a featured artist as part of the Taking Strides breakout sessions at the library. (Photo by Jayme D. Tucker\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 19th, 2020 marked the fourth year of the Women\u2019s March in Calgary, Alberta. Originally started as a solidarity movement with women marching in Washington, D.C., it has grown into an event with seminars, performances, and exhibitions. Approximately 120 people braved the cold to march down Stephen Avenue to City Hall, where speakers addressed the gathered crowd. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":53604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S1 Womens March","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54185,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions\/54185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}