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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem to march in Trump inauguration protest

Feminist leader Gloria Steinem will help lead a major women’s protest following President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Steinem will participate in the women’s anti-Trump march after the inauguration on Jan. 21.

Steinem was named one of the march’s honorary co-chairs, alongside Harry Belafonte. Steinem made the announcement in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

{mosads}”Proud to announce my role as honorary co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington. See you there?” she wrote in the post.

The protest, called the Women’s March on Washington, is slated to have thousands of participants and will take place in Washington, D.C.

Plans for the demonstration were created just after Trump was elected president on Nov. 8.  

Steinem was a strong supporter of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

She came under fire during the primaries when she suggested that young women who supported Clinton’s challenger Bernie Sanders only supported him to attract men. She later apologized for the comment.

After Trump’s win, Steinem wrote in an op-ed: “We will not mourn, we will organize.”