Some Democratic lawmakers attending President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night are planning to protest by wearing pink.
MSNBC is reporting that the 96- member Democratic Women's Caucus will be wearing hot pink in the House of Representatives chamber tonight. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) said the all-pink presence is meant to draw attention to "Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women and families."
The color pink has particular significance in relation to Trump: At the start of his first term in the White House, the "Women's March" movement brought out hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets with hot pink "pussyhats" as a universal signifier. The name of the hat came from Trump's widely maligned 2005 comments in which he described groping women without their consent.
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MSNBC contributor Hannah Holland also wrote about how the color pink has been used by the LGBTQ+ community as a symbol of resistance. Holland described how the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler labeled gay and transgender prisoners with a pink triangle to single them out for particularly harsh treatment. But in the 1970s, the gay rights movement took ownership of the pink triangle as a symbol of community and activism.
Women in Congress have previously used color coordination to send a message during Trump's prior State of the Union addresses. During one address in his first term, female lawmakers wore white to the House chamber, which is a throwback to the Suffragette movement of the 1920s when women fought for the right to vote.
Holland acknowledged that the decision to color-coordinate in response to Trump appears meaningless and performative on its surface. However, she opined that Trump seeing the wave of pink-clad lawmakers is a powerful signal to him that there is a unified opposition to his agenda.
"[T]hese pink outfits, steeped in subversive symbolism and made significant by generations of sexism and organized resistance against it, are a symbol of unity, a visible show of resistance, and, certainly most importantly, a sign to every American watching Tuesday night that these lawmakers haven’t given up," she wrote.
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Click here to read Holland's full column on MSNBC.