Feminist Club hosted a poster-making event for students to create signs for Saturday’s Women’s March.
The event was Friday, March 7, in the MOSAIC Lounge and lasted an hour and a half. Attendees were provided with markers, pencils, white poster boards and snacks. The Feminist Club made sure that extra signs were created to be passed to additional participants at the march.
Alissa Beehler, Feminist Club President, described the importance of the event. “I think freedom of speech is under attack, and so it’s very important that we recognize that we’re in a country where it is established that I have a voice as equal as anybody else,” Beehler said, referring to the First Amendment.
Beehler opened the event with a presentation on protest safety. She covered the importance of safety in numbers and staying together while marching. “In my experience doing protests in the past, people are much less likely to become aggressive with you if you are surrounded by a group,” said Beehler.
The Feminist Club organizers made sure that there were walkie-talkies and megaphones to keep communication clear during the march. “For protest safety … PPSC is bringing two resource officers, and they’re going to be with us,” Beehler said. “We’re also going to have walkie talkies with one person in the front, one person in the back so we know what’s going on. We have that open line of communication.”
After the presentation, attendees grabbed poster boards and spread out around the MOSIAC lounge to design. Some of the signs contained traditional protest chants such as “My Body. My Choice” and “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.”
One protester drew inspiration from the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “She has the quote, ‘Speak even if your voice shakes,’” they said. “Even though people are going to form negative opinions of you … It’s better than doing nothing.” RBG served as a Justice from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was influential in the fight to enshrine women’s rights into law and is often quoted at protests.
Among the 16 attendees, there was general frustration surrounding the lack of coverage of women’s struggles in immigrant and minority communities. These frustrations were apparent in the designs and sayings on some of the posters.
Kylie Red Willow used her poster to draw attention to the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in the United States. Her poster told the story of Emily Pike, a 14-year-old Apache girl found dismembered in Arizona in February 2025. “Our stories often go unheard or unseen, and I just want every little Indigenous girl across America to know that her name matters, that we are here for her,” Red Willow said.
Another protester alluded to her Hispanic heritage in her poster that read “Viva La Mujer Que Lucha,” roughly translating to “long live the woman who fights.” “Personally, I have met so many women, especially immigrants who are just terrified to speak out about anything,” she said. “I wanted to write this specifically in Spanish in solidarity with those women who felt like they couldn’t speak out, so I’m speaking out for them.”
Throughout the event, there was a sense of community and the hope that comes with gathering together to affect change. Each attendee was looking forward to the march the following morning. “I am excited to be on the streets tomorrow,” said Red Willow.
A protestor finishes a poster. Photo by Anysia Hovel.