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A group of demonstrators play drums during the Women's March on Washington January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Picture by Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images. Which brings me to the Women's March, and its unanticipated but unmistakable totem: the so-called "Pussyhat" (rhymes with "pussycat"). At Saturday's supermarch, the sight of a large sea of pink knit hats appeared almost magical.
They were instantly recognized as a natural rejoinder to Trump's MAGA cap. The teeming symbolic gesture sprang from the warded off hopes for a first female presidentthough it may also be worth noting that its urgently declared, brazenly feminist statement was only possible outside of the symbolism of Clinton herself. Sexism meant that she needed to keep any imagery deemed too womanly at arm's length, while her project technique focused on removing centrist Republicans pushed away by Trump.
Thousands of activists from throughout the United States and abroad collect on Self-reliance Avenue for a rally proceeding the 'Women's March' in Washington, DC on the day following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Picture by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/Light, Rocket via Getty Images. The Pussyhat began as a post-election art task.
Like the majority of really resonant symbols, it loads a lot into a basic thing. The Pussyhat was elegantly easy, the better to be shared commonly; it was apparent in its hot-pink importance, the better to work as a statement; it was witty and unexpected, the much better to bring in genuine interest; it was a little outrageous" Pussyhat" self-consciously declaring the indecency related to Trump's notorious dripped Gain access to Hollywood tapethe better to represent a little bit of the defiance of the minute.
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Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post through Getty Images. A Reliable Source stands intentionally in a long tradition of feminist art reclaiming females's standard crafts as a political declaration. Reports around the country had knitting centers becoming protest hat-making hubs in the lead-up to the Women's March. Those who could not go for whatever factor (special needs, absence of economic ways, fear of crowds, fear of the cops or of Trump advocates) made hats and sent them with notes of uniformity for those who could.
