I thought this might be a good time to repost a link to our interviews of participants in the Women’s March on Washington that happened on January 21, 2017. If you follow this link you will find 17 interviews and a montage type video overview of the project. Some of these interviews were done very soon after the march, some were done one year later. Some of the marchers were from the DC march and some were at various sister marches. We interviewed as wide a variety of people as we could to get various perspectives. We are beyond proud of each and every person who participated in this project and think in time this will be a very valuable snapshot of the time it happened and hopes of those participating.
Our thought in creating this collection was that the thoughts, ideas, and hopes of people participating in the event needed to be preserved. In addition, it was our hope that these interviews could serve as a way for people who did not participate, or who did not agree with the event to learn exactly why others did participate and what they hoped to gain from it. In doing these, we tried to think about questions we personally had, but also thought about criticisms we had heard from others about the march and the marchers. Our hope is that that those who were opposed could watch these interviews and hopefully have their questions and concerns addressed in a completely passive and non-confrontational way.
We mostly brought up a thought or question and just let the person talk. Wherever their answer went was OK. Sometimes one thought led to another in a surprising way. Several people mentioned that their interview was the first time they had really processed the march, or that was the first time they had thought about whatever question we had asked. At times people cried, laughed, become agitated or became lost in thought- all of it was genuine and sometimes raw. Other times, people had an amazing ability to recall details and gave wonderful descriptions of what was going on. This was a wonderful project.
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