“Don’t try to divide us,” said Gloria Steinem, the reigning queen of second-wave feminism, now 81, who first rose to fame for going undercover as a Playboy bunny. She’d come to help rally a crowd reportedly surpassing 500,000 women, male allies, and acquiescent children—all of whom find a common enemy in our new president.

Hours earlier, the anti-racist contingent of the Women’s March on Washington met in the far corner of the undercroft at St. Mark’s Church on Capitol Hill. Down the hall from a nearly-empty meeting room set aside for a niche gathering of another sort (“Catholics for Choice,” read the sign on the door), I found protesters for whom racial injustice is a more pertinent fighting cause than misogyny.

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