The Women's March just won a PEN award for courage and freedom of speech

Bob Bland, co-chair of the Women's March on Washington, has a simple yet resounding message for Donald Trump: "The resistance is female and we're not going anywhere."

On Tuesday, PEN America, which was a formal partner of the Women's March, awarded the organization with the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award at the 2017 PEN Literary Gala.

Bland, sporting a red pussyhat, accepted the award on behalf of the march.

"[This award embodies] everything that we were trying to do with the march, which was to show women that their collective voice matters," Bland told Mashable. "[We wanted to show] that the Bill of Rights matters. And that it should be inclusive and intersectional and apply to all Americans, not just the Americans who voted for the current seated president."

The Women's March is only the third winner of the Freedom of Expression Courage Award, created by PEN in 2015 to honor acts of courage in the exercise of freedom of expression. The past winners were Charlie Hebdo and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Lee-Anne Walters, who helped reveal the Flint water crisis.

While Bland noted that she was honored to accept the award on behalf of the Women's March, she also advised that now is not the time to rest.

"It's not time to gloat — it's time to recommit to the resistance," she explained. "We're just at the beginning, as a community of people, in exploring how to dismantle systemic oppression and injustice on a mass scale."

In addition to calling for resistance, Bland also took to the stage and advocated for diversity and intersectionality to be embraced in activism.

"We continue to stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending us all ... We ask that all of you stand with us in solidarity, to continue to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change," she said.

The Women's March wasn't the only organization honored at the gala. Composer Stephen Sondheim, introduced by Meryl Streep, won the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award and Oleg Sentsov, an imprisoned Ukrainian writer and filmmaker, won the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, an award granted to a writer imprisoned for his or her work. John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan publishing was also honored as the PEN Publisher Honoree at the gala.

You can watch the full gala below: