ON THE RELEVANCE AND NECESSITY OF SOCIALIST FEMINISM

After the 2016 election, there has been a dramatic increase in mass organizing around women’s issues and gender equality not seen since the activism of the early feminist movement. This activism has also been able to harness the power and reach of social media to rapidly coordinate participants both online and on the street with unprecedented results. On inauguration weekend, January 21, 2017, close to four million people from 680 locations joined the Women’s March, in the United states and across the globe (Smith, S., 2017, p. 12; Roesch, 2019, p. 8). In what started as a Facebook announcement after