By Matt Kwong and Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC
Published on January 21,2017
500,000 estimated at D.C. march, jamming streets for life, liberty and reproductive freedom
Anyone need a hat?”
“I’ve got extra Pussyhats! Who wants Pussyhats?”
And, just to be sure — “Ladies, come take a hat!”
In the raging political cauldron that is Washington, D.C., no sartorial choice mattered more these past two days than your headwear.
Inauguration morning on Friday was dominated by a blaze of red ball caps bearing President Donald Trump’s plea to “Make America Great Again.” Today, the nation’s capital was awash in pink “pussyhats,” the pointy-eared tuques that were distributed en masse by demonstrators and worn by the estimated half a million people taking part in the Women’s March on Washington. (The pussyhat knitting project, which became tied to the march, was a response to Trump’s 2005 Access Hollywood hot-mic remarks boasting about grabbing women’s genitalia.)
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