Marginalised groups from across the country came together last Saturday to march for human rights in twenty cities across the UK, including Bournemouth.
The protest began at midday in all twenty locations, with those in the Bournemouth event marching from East Cliff through Meyrick Park to The Triangle.
Among the chants, protestors called for changes to LGBTQ+ rights and the liberation of Palestine, with the Intersectional Uprising bringing together groups which claim they have been shortchanged by governments across Europe.
Jadien Davies, who ran the event, said that the verbal abuse from passing vehicles as the march was taking place only spurred them on further.
They said: “If [these governments] can strip away the rights they already have, what stops them from stripping away more?
“Today has been quite anxiety inducing. This is not something I would have ever expected younger me doing, but I grew up with health difficulties and that helped me understand how difficult things could be.
“As soon as I saw this march was happening, I knew I had to take the risk and see what it was like to take charge.”
Evelyn Eales, the health and safety co-ordinator for the march, is a touring musician, and finds it particularly important to get involved as someone who has witnessed this hate crime across the world firsthand.
They added: “It is really concerning for me and the people I care about most.
“There are a lot of people who have some sort of opinion that people like us should not exist, and there is often a lot of kickback against us trying to defend our basic rights as human beings.
“Everybody here deserves a chance for their voice to be heard, and it is really important to keep people here safe.”
The march finished with a series of speeches from trans and women’s rights groups, alongside the chants which echoed across the Bournemouth Triangle.
One speaker, Robin, shared a powerful story about being sexually harassed in a supermarket by a man when she was only eleven, and called for a change in rights for both trans and cis women.
The next intersectional uprising march will take place in August, which again hopes to make undervalued voices heard.
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