In the autumn of 2021, simmering rage over issues of women’s safety and respect in the workplace, triggered by Brittany Higgins’ allegations, galvanised into the March4Justice rallies. Tens of thousands of women – young and old – and their male, trans and non-binary allies, came together to declare enough was enough.
One of the features of the mass demonstrations was the array of pithy homemade placards, held aloft to create a sea of verbal dissent, a cardboard homage to the finely crafted banners of the early 20th-century suffragette rallies. My favourite placard, held by a grey-haired woman in a purple T-shirt, declared “My arm is tired from holding up this sign since the 70s”.
