Jessie

I march because I’ve lived in a country where women are viewed as objects and oppressed and seen the pain it can cause; because women don’t get to be touched whenever a guy feels like and we don’t need to be rated on how “hot” we are; because this is 2017 not 1817.

Sibley Dale

As a woman, as a disabled human being, as someone who lives below the poverty line, as the mother of two children of color, as an ardent supporter of Black Lives Matter and the LGTBQ community, as a loving member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, I join this march in spirit…

Lenden

I do NOT want my daughter to live in a country that has been touched by Donald Drumf’s tiny hands. I need the moderate well-meaning friends and family around me to know that what he is doing, the things he says, are NOT OK! IT WILL NOT STAND! http://felalalieisafeminist.tumblr.com

Dr. Vittoria Repetto

Due to two accidents, I need a cane to walk. I’m still able to do the work I love, do daily errands, host a monthly women & trans poetry reading at a local independent bookstore, travel on mass transportation and generally live my life. However to walk for hours in a large crowd would be…

Kathy

Quite honestly, I am terrified and angered with what’s happening in the UK and I am lucky enough to have several privileges in life that others don’t have. I feel unsafe and unheard. I have four interlinking chronic illnesses (three physical, one mental) and seeing how healthcare is such a low priority scares the hell…

Nelie

I am unable to swallow at all or to speak clearly after treatment for oral cancer 12 years ago. I get my nutrition via gtube and have to grind up pills every four hours and take through the tube. I also have a Trach. Despite all this, I am lucky to have an employer that…

Daana

To show solidarity, and to demonstrate that women will mor be silenced. Our bodies belong to us.

Sharon Hough

As a mother of 6, including 3 daughters who share the same genetic illness as me, protecting their rights to healthcare is my number one priority. Having this debilitating illness, I know what the long road ahead of them looks like and that their lives will only get more difficult as this illness progresses. Barriers…