Website: http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com

Why I Am Joining The March : I am a cultural critic and comics journalist, diagnosed in early 2014 with the first of a series of autoimmune disorders that keep me in some form of pain or discomfort around the clock, to unpredictable debilitation. At the time of my diagnosis, I was in Cambodia covering the largest garment worker’s strike in the history of that nation—a political protest turned violent when military police took aim on the young women marchers—and thus my disability is inherently linked to my support of the rights of women around the world. Over this election season, I have watched as folks with non-normative bodies and desires (queers, crips, non-binary people, reporters with disabilities, lesbians, the chronically ill, etc.) are first sidelined, and then mocked. Now, with threat of the repeal of the ACA, we are being targeted. Make no mistake about it: we are engaged in a fight for the right to exist, millions of us that you have been kept from hearing about, for months now, or years. I stand at this march because most of us can’t make it to DC, or even our local Women’s Marches, and you therefore may even forget we exist.

We exist. We are affected. We support your demands and need you to support ours.

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Anne Elizabeth Moore is the third recipient of Detroit’s unique, permanent Write A House fellowship, and the author of Unmarketable (The New Press, 2007), Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles, 2012), and Threadbare (Microcosm, 2016). Her next book, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, comes out in April from Curbside Press. The Chicago Reader named it a “Book We Can’t Wait to Read in 2017” and the Chicago Tribune says it “offers scalpel-sharp insight into the ways women’s bodies are subject to unspeakable horrors under capitalism.” http://anneelizabethmoore.com