January 22, 2017

Linda Sarsour, one of the co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington, began her life in activism by lobbying for the inclusion of Muslim high holy days on the New York City school system’s holiday calendar. / YouTube

“During a time of extreme partisanship and division—a time in which the One America the now-former president once spoke of can seem an ever-more-distant possibility—the Women’s March played out as a kind of alternate-reality inauguration: not necessarily of Hillary Clinton, but of the ideas and ideals her candidacy represented.” “This was a big-tent protest: a messy, ad-hoc, and joyful coalescence of many different movements,” writes Megan Garber. / The Atlantic

The New York Times assembles photos from Women’s Marches held around the world on Saturday, indeed on every continent. / New York Times