Why I’m joining the Disability March: Anti-apartheid and nuclear weapon plant protests and a civil disobedience arrest in the 80s in Atlanta and Aiken, S.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay and then Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Rights in 1979, 1986, and 1993, a 1991 Orlando ADAPT protest against the nursing…

I am joining the march because I feel it is a crucial time for people with disabilities to continue fighting for their rights. With the election of Donald Trump disabled people are at risk for losing their health care. This crosses through all lines of types of disability as well as race, gender, and sexual…

The morning after the presidential election, I was lying in an MRI machine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, hypnotized by clang clang clang, like the drumbeats when I marched in the streets my last time in DC. Two weeks after 9-11, anti-war protest, surrounded by riot police in Edward R. Murrow park, paddy wagons…