Women's March: Not Just for Women

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

From their site's FAQs

Q: I’m not a woman, am I invited?
A: Yes, the Women’s March on Washington (WMW) is for any person, regardless of gender or gender identity, who believes women’s rights are human rights.

Event Details

The Women’s March on Washington is a grassroots effort comprised of dozens of independent coordinators at the state level. The effort is helmed by four national co-chairs and a national coordinating committee who are working around the clock to pull it all together.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 21, 2017. Rally begins at 10:00am and ends at 1:15pm

Location: The starting point and rally will be the intersection of Independence Avenue and Third Street, Washington DC, near the U.S. Capitol (see map below).

The Rally: A program featuring nationally recognized advocates, artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and others will be announced in the coming days.

Tickets: The Women's March is NOT a ticketed event, no ticket is required.

Loads more info about the event on the event website.

For those who can't get to DC or prefer a local event, there are 370 Sister Events worldwide.

Did you know there was a women's march on Washington in 1913? Perhaps you'll find the women (and supporting men) of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in DC as inspirational as I did.

[HoneyBadger]

1. Any particular reason that the NYC March is not listed as a sister march?

I see Trenton, Port Jeff, Pompton Plains, Stamford, and Asbury Park listed

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. I really don't know. But you got me wondering.

I couldn't find anything that directly answers your question. But I've got some clues.

A number of articles online, including Local Clinton Supporters Plan to Join Marches in NYC and Washington, D.C. from theinsidepress.com and Women to march in Manhattan on Fifth Ave. to protest Donald Trump’s election trom NYDailyNews.com refer to the NYC event as a sister march of the DC event.

However, the organizer's site for the NYC march does not mention the DC march at all. And, as you say, the DC march site does not have the NYC event in its sisters list.

Seems unlikely that both just coincidentally accidentally failed to mention each other as siblings, so maybe there's some contentiousness between the NYC and DC marches.

There are a few articles out there about some "infighting" over various aspects of the march.

There's a NYTimes piece, Women’s March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race, which reports that some white women feel alienated and unwelcome to the DC march. And, New York Magazine's has Why Anti-Trump Women Are Not Attending the Women's March, which claims:

...for every woman who plans to vent her anger in D.C. or at sister-marches across the country, just as many are intentionally skipping what is expected to be the largest anti-Trump protest yet. For many of these women, not attending the march is their preferred method of protest. Their reasons for staying home are as diverse as the reasons others are boarding buses next Saturday morning.

So, OK, not everyone's into a protest march, but I really can't find any source in that piece for the just as many are purposely staying home as are going to march claim.

I guess we'll never know. Personally, I plan to go, and I hope there's huge turnout at all the marches, siblings or not, as long as they're anti-Trump/RW.