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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Natasha Walter

There are cracks in the feminist movement, but I have faith in women to stand up to Trump

A Women's March in London in January 2017
A Women's March in London in January 2017, just before Donald Trump started his first presidency. Photograph: David Mbiyu/Corbis/Getty Images

What happens in America does not stay in America. The prospect of Trump’s second administration is devastating for many American women, but its reverberations are also echoing for women across the globe, and bringing much more fear and uncertainty than last time around.

Eight years ago, while Trump’s success shocked women in Britain, it also brought rays of hope – in the shape of a resurgence of solidarity. On the day after the election in 2016, I remember going into my workplace, a charity for refugee women, feeling pretty bleak, and looking at other women’s downcast faces. Then, at the end of the day, one of our colleagues had the most unexpected news. The charity’s online donations had rocketed.

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