The crowd marches towards Embarcadero Plaza and the Ferry Building.
Latashia Govan leads the front of the march in a series of chants.
Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (right) is the first openly transgender minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They and Dawn Marie Roginski (left) cleared the street ahead of the crowd.
Batala San Francisco is a Brazilian samba reggae drumming band based in the Bay Area. They marched while playing at the front of the crowd.
Kevin Patten (left) and Roshawn Bouie (right) marched because they support rights for women to choose what happens to their bodies.
Born in Texas, Amber Buchanan recently moved from San Francisco to Alameda. She said she's terrified for her sister in Texas and her daughter in Louisiana: "When people start putting bounties on the heads of women, it's a lot like The Handmaid's Tale."
Daniela Oropeza (right) and Beatrice Griffiths (left) hurried to join the march already in-progress. "I've been coming [to marches] since I was a baby," said Griffiths. Oropeza added, "I come from a conservative family and it's hard for me to get out to these things."
Sarah Birdwell attended from Concord and marched in the front row of the crowd.
Arf Hazelwood (center) and Grendl Löfkuist (left) of Poster Syndicate San Francisco regularly make posters at demonstrations throughout the city.
Kimberly Rodler moved to San Francisco in 1997, but later fell in love and moved out of the city with her husband, Paul. "He made me breakfast this morning–what a supportive husband!"
Sandy Weil (right) and Dave McClary (left) march for reproductive rights at the Women's March on Oct. 2, 2021. | Joel Aguero
Arl Nadel rides her recumbent trike in the march.
Sue Scarth works in a catheterization lab at Kaiser Permanente and attended because "women need reproductive rights."
Ashley Brown (New York City) was visiting San Francisco and decided to join last-minute, remarking: "This is bullshit across the country."
Isabella Percy traveled from the east bay and shared her motivation: "Men shouldn't be able to control our bodies."
Kelsey McGillis (left) and Sonika Singh (right) moved from New York City to San Francisco last month. The marched because of their opposition to Texas' new abortion law and their support for women's rights.
Mildred Cole of the Fillmore District didn't know the march was happening, but decided to join when they saw it because they support the cause: "I love what they do and what they're doing. People are doing things to women that they shouldn't be."
Lexi Guerara, Sarah Pereira and their kids drove from Tri-Valley to attend. When asked why they came to the march, they said simply: "our kids."
Sabrina Wildman is a labor & community organizer from San Francisco, seen here encouraging marchers to keep taking action tomorrow.
Latashia Govan thanks marchers and helps clear Market Street, adding that people can keep demonstrating in the plaza.
Thousands marched from Civic Center to Embarcadero Plaza Saturday for the 2021 Women’s March in San Francisco, led by supporter and activist Latashia Govan and Women’s March San Francisco co-founder Sophia Andary.
Many attendees Here/Say spoke with said that Texas’ new—and highly restrictive—abortion law motivated them to show up and protest.
Sandy Weil and Dave McClary marched carrying a coat hanger emblazoned with the words “NEVER AGAIN.”
Amber Buchanan, dressed in a red cloak, told Here/Say she’s terrified for her sister in Texas and her daughter in Louisiana.
“When people start putting bounties on the heads of women, it’s a lot like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’” she said.
After the march, smaller contingents continued demonstrations near Embarcadero Plaza as volunteers ushered attendees off Market Street so above-ground transit service could resume.
Here/Say estimates at least 2,500 people attended the march based on crowd density and crowd size data from aerial photography.
