Earlier this year, my daughter Pudu attended the second Women's March in Los Angeles. She later sent me an email saying that she felt excited to be part of the march.
The protesters' signs used humor and anger to counter the policies of the US administration. She looked out over a sea of people wearing pink "pussyhats" as they listened to speeches about the harm being done by current political and social systems.
But she left the Women's March with a big question: what is this for?
She wondered what our traffic jams, road closures and rousing speeches achieved since, once we put the signs away, we still live in a sexist, patriarchal world. A world where undocumented children risk deportation, where the poorest members of society are denied basic rights and where the color of your skin can make you a target for violence.
Knowing my history of bringing women together to create change, she asked me if we march only to hear ourselves chant -- because she sees little evidence of the protests creating change.
I believe it takes a village to raise children, so I asked my good friend and American feminist Abigail Disney to share her reflections with my daughter.
Even in the face of Donald Trump's election, Abby has faith in the American people's ability to change society for the better. She shared how the election prompted many people to try to understand what their personal responsibilities are.
"We need to make the most of this moment, where it feels like a lot of people have awoken from a deep, apathetic slumber."

UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd condemned the attempted assassination of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England as "cruel" and "brazen" on Thursday, amid growing suspicions that Moscow may have been involved.

Police confirmed Wednesday that a nerve agent was used in the attack in the southern English city of Salisbury on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, who remain in a critical but stable condition.
In a statement to members of Parliament on Thursday, Rudd refused to be drawn on who might have been responsible.
"The use of a nerve agent on UK soil is a brazen and reckless act -- this was attempted murder in the most cruel and public way," Rudd said.
"People are right to want to know who to hold to account but if we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation and allow the police to carry on their investigation."
Rudd said the UK government was committed to "doing whatever we can to bring the perpetrators to justice" and would "act without hesitation as the facts become clearer."



A split image showing former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal.
Skripal, 66, and Yulia, 33, were found slumped on a bench near a shopping center in Salisbury on Sunday. A police officer who helped them was also exposed to the nerve agent but his condition has improved.
Earlier Thursday, Rudd said that Skripal and his daughter were in a "very serious condition" but that the policeman was "talking and engaging."
Police: Pair 'deliberately targeted'
In a statement on Wednesday evening Mark Rowley, the head of the counter-terrorism division at London's Metropolitan police, declared a "major incident" and said hundreds of police officers, forensic experts and government chemical analysts were involved in the inquiry.
Rowley said the attack was being treated as attempted murder, and that Skripal and his daughter were deliberately targeted.
If a Moscow link were proved, it would plunge relations between the West and Russia to a new low, and would call into question the British government's ability to protect residents of the UK at home. Rowley said officers from Wiltshire police, the local force, were providing support to the sick officer and his family.
Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England, said the evidence did not suggest any wider danger to the public.

President Donald Trump reportedly asked his former chief of staff Reince Priebus if special counsel investigators had been "nice" during his interview, according to The New York Times, citing two people familiar with the conversation.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators are aware of two occasions where Trump asked witnesses about conversations they had with investigators, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the encounters.
In the other instance, Trump reportedly told an aide that White House counsel Donald McGahn should put out a statement denying a previous Times report -- in which the paper said McGahn told investigators that Trump asked him to fire Mueller.
The special counsel's investigation is currently one of several probes looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump campaign associates have any ties with Russians.
Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion.
Earlier this week, CNN reported that a Middle East specialist with ties to Trump's team attended secret meetings during the presidential transition between the United Arab Emirates and Trump associates, and is now cooperating with special counsel Mueller, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The special counsel's questions about the Emiratis point to an investigation that has expanded beyond Russian meddling in the 2016 election to broader concerns about foreign influence during the presidential campaign and long after it concluded.
Additionally, CNN reported last month that Mueller's team has been asking witnesses about Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered a run for president.
CNN's Kara Scannell, Pamela Brown, Gloria Borger and Jim Sciutto, Shimon Prokupecz, and Sara Murray contributed to this report.

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