Women's March on Philadelphia: Thousands protest for the second time
A stranger called Stacy Shilling her “hero” on Saturday. Dozens of others asked to take a photo of her. That’s because Shilling was donning a “Women’s March on Philadelphia” hat and wearing a sign around her neck that read: “Nobody asks what my rapist was wearing.”
Shilling, a 27-year-old from Green Lane, Montgomery County, was sexually assaulted four years ago by a man she’d met through mutual friends, but she said it was the process of going to the police that “retraumatized” her. Those “victim-blaming” questions – “What were you wearing? How much did you drink? Are you sure you didn’t lead him on?” – are why she attended Saturday’s second Women’s March on Philadelphia.
“I have my voice back,” she said. “And I want to help other women find their voice, too.”
Thousands of women converged on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday morning for the 2018 version of the Women’s March on Philadelphia, the local iteration of a national movement aimed at protesting for women’s rights and, largely, against President Trump and the Republican Party.
Last year’s Women’s March on Washington, which took place the day after Trump’s inauguration, involved half a million women and was one of the largest protests ever recorded. About 50,000 women marched in the 2017 Women’s March on Philadelphia, which was then dubbed a “sister march” of the Washington event.
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