Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

This oral history of the 2017 Women's March allows the organizers to tell their story "so that no historian, pundit, or politician could claim what was ours." Opening with election night and an idea posted to Facebook, this title follows the efforts that went into making the march happen, with emphasis placed on the women of color involved in leadership and the work done to ensure the march would be intersectional. It chronicles the day of the Women's March, which ended up being the "single largest protest in world history," with five million participants on all seven continents. The volume is heavily illustrated with large, compelling photographs of the planning and the marches. Pullout boxes and pages let others share their memories and reflect. While the format lends the text an unvarnished intimacy, it does not allow for context. The organizers own up to mistakes and offer rebuttals to some of the criticisms of the march (for instance, a lack of inclusivity), but the book assumes that readers remember those missteps and the larger conversations around them.