I am a queer nonbinary woman living with disability. I suffer from chronic pain and chronic illness in addition to autism and various mental illnesses. I spent more of my childhood in hospitals than schools, and my experiences help fuel my passion as an activist and agent for change.

I wish to join the march because everything about a Trump administration presents a threat to everything I am. My life and my way of life are under threat. As a feminist, an activist, and an ally to all marginalized people, my values are under equal threat. I have always stood for the oppressed and I always will, even if that standing must sometimes be figurative. I will never stop fighting for racial justice, for women’s rights, for queer liberation, for healthcare, for an end to ableism, for justice, for the people who need to be fought for. I will never stop organizing, supporting, speaking, and working. I will not sit quietly while the rights of myself and the people I love are compromised.