I’m MJ and I’m joining the March for the LGBT community, for Muslims, every POC, and for every disabled person who had to fight for respect and independence while also needing someone who they can depend on! #resistandfight
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Elena Voigt
I am joining the disability march because all people deserve equal rights and equal protection under the law. Our president is our EMPLOYEE, a public SERVANT, and he will listen to what we demand of him: equal protection and treatment of women, trans people, immigrants, muslims, people of color, EVERYONE; universal health care; quality birth…
Lisa B, Seattle
The country needs to see and understand the gross impacts this administration is already having and will have on people with disabilities, people of color, queers, immigrants, Muslims, older adults, and more. We must make our voices known. This is not normal. This is not OK. I am a disabled social work student about to…
Cyn Huddleston
I’m joining because I resist the presidency of a sexual predator, but I have to resist from my home because of autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis. I ‘m a sexual assault survivor who, thanks to lots of therapy, was largely healed from the trauma I was subjected to in my childhood and again in my early adulthood….
Becca Colao
I am joining the march because I cannot plan to participate in activities involving travel, crowds, and standing for a long time, and I can have severe allergic and immune reactions at any time because of a condition call Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). I want to speak up for all of us who could…
Jennifer W.
I am marching with Sjogren’s Syndrome and chronic migraine, and I want to put in a word in for all the delicate things in life that get trampled by crude politics and hate speech. Let’s hear it for love, poetry, art and scholarship! Let’s hear it for all the women who create beauty, preserve the…
Megan Mills
~I am joining the Disability March because I wholeheartedly want to participate in this event, and doing it in person was a hardship for me. I support equal rights for all people and creatures (including water and trees), I support LGBTQI2 equality, Black Lives Matter, Earth Healing and Respect, Social Justice of every kind, reproductive…
Heather
I have fibromyalgia, epilepsy, lupus, chronic pain, degenerative spine, and all that goes with these illnesses. Over the last year, I have been treated like ‘nothing’ from the medical community. I’ve been turned away for reasons no one should be turned away. Because of this, I’ve suffered more and more. It seems that the CDC,…
Arlene
I cannot make the women’s march because of a disability. This is really painful to me but it’s what I’m stuck with. I want President Trump to know that I will not let my rights be taken away. I will not let the disabled or the poor be denigrated.