Women’s March San Francisco

On January 21st we joined hundreds of thousands of people all over the world for our first ever march. We were, as usual, a little disorganized that day having booked tickets for The Physics Show for 10:00 am. Luckily, the San Francisco march was in the afternoon and evening, so we could make both events. We enjoyed The Physics Show and then got to work on our march signs when we got home. As always, all credit goes to Bruce.

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Ezra came up with his design on his own, although Bruce and I helped him with execution.

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We had a grand plan to drive to the nearest BART station and take the train into the city (which is often how we get there because even on a normal day no one wants to drive in San Francisco). Of course, many, many people also had that plan. It took us over an hour just to get on the train but the atmosphere among all those waiting people was wonderful. Here’s a picture of the boys in the train station.

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It was a lot of waiting and eventually they did get a little bored.

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But people loved Ezra’s sign so the positive feedback was buoying for them. When we finally boarded a very crowded train and made it to our stop, it was raining and super crowded. But again, to a person everyone was polite, happy to be there, and well-behaved. Here are a few shots from the actual march.

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I took a short video to try to capture the scale of it.

All in all, this was an overwhelming and overwhelmingly positive day. Before we went to our march, we saw so many photos from friends participating in different cities — it was heartwarming and unifying. To know that so many of us were saying, “No, this isn’t OK and we’re going to fight for what we feel is right” was exactly what we needed. I’m proud our family was a part of it.