We deserve leaders who look forward to building a better future for everyone, not those who plan to turn back the clock for their own personal profit. I work under the alias SamHain Press as an award-winning professional illustrator and craftsperson; I’m 34 and bipolar with intermittent mobility issues.

My mental health needs dictate that I cannot attend the march. However, I would like to be present and be a part of the protest against a fascist leader and a government that does not take the needs and desires of the people into account.   Website: https://www.facebook.com/ChristyMLively

It is important that we, as women, make our voice heard and it is important to me, that I have my voice included. Women’s bodies are not meant to be controlled or used without our consent. Women’s minds are worth more to this country than what we are given credit for. We have a voice…

  Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Trump and Pence have got to go! PTSD is real and we need to talk about it!

      I first stood up for civil rights by joining the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Later protested the Vietnam War in D.C. and NYC.  I’m also a staunch women’s rights advocate, 60s Feminist and political progressive/Berner.  I have a congenital knee problem that has “kicked up” and prevents me from marching. So here I am…

I am an amateur writer whose biggest dream is to finally write a book based on my experiences with disability, gender identity, and sexuality. I am joining the disability march because I want to be able show my support for the things I believe in, even if I can’t be there in person. It’s so…

as an artist and teacher working under the heading, The Performative Self: Performance (as) Medicine, i translate, transpose, reframe and transform physical, emotional and spiritual challenges extrapolated from my own situation. the disability march offers a heightened form of activism and participation in a similar way, in that i am not there but there, here…

I want to march because my life matters. Repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean I can’t get the life-altering treatments I need because of my pre-existing conditions. Repealing the ACA tells the US that disabled lives don’t matter. I want to march because my life matters, even with my disability.

We are in the 21 Century and yet we appear to be going backwards. By any definition Racism, Sexism and everything that is both morally and ethically wrong. Appears to be the norm for Trump’s agenda.