I have volunteered for Planned Parenthood, donated to the Human Rights Campaign and Southern Poverty Law Center every year for over the last 10 years, participated in gay pride parades, spoke out against injustice when I witnessed it in my life, cut out any people (including family members) that have racist or homophobic views, wrote…
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Avy Greene
I am joining the march as a trans, queer, disabled person who wants to live in a better world for everybody and knows that we deserve better than to live in a world of injustice and inequality. I want to live long enough to see the world change for the better, not to go back…
Maren
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…
Leah Benson
Due to my own health issues, including a recent back surgery, and my son’s disability (autism) there was no way we were going to be able to participate in the women’s march. Right after the election, in a state of anxiety and depression, I joined the pantsuit nation group on Facebook and began seeking out…
Anne Elizabeth
I am joining the disability march because I have burning desire to attend the march but I cannot because of my chronic illness and I want my voice to matter. I was going to march with my daughters, ages 9 and 11, and I want their voices to matter. I march for their rights, for…
Deborah Missel
I have several autoimmune diseases, primarily Crohn’s Disease, and severe social anxiety which makes large, outdoor, crowded events extremely difficult for me. My sister Rebecca Missel, shared your group with me as a way for me to participate while she marches in New York Saturday. I am not able to attend the march taking place…
Candyce
I am grateful to be able to join my niece and her husband in the Women’s March on Washington via the disability march online. Were it not for primary lateral sclerosis, I would be there in person. I am a retired professor with countless students who serve families in mental health agencies all over the…
Biscuit
I suffer from a number of mental and neurological conditions that have left me unable to work, mostly housebound, and under the care of my family. Were it not for the ACA, I would have been abandoned by the insurance companies to completely fend for myself years ago. The fact that Republicans can’t even agree…