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…
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Kris K.
I am very queer. I am nonbinary transgender. I have a functioning uterus. I stand in solidarity with Muslim and Jewish Americans, People of Color, the undocumented, and other immigrants. I will not stand for sexism, racism, and xenophobia. I am a pansexual quoiromantic androgyne. My pronouns are ze/hir or they/them. I am mentally ill…
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…
Karen Edwards
Visual description: a woman with glasses stands in front of a map on a pink wall. She is playfully sneering. She holds up a sign written in pink marker that reads “I am not invisible.” The hashtag “disability march” is written on the bottom. I’m marching for inclusive accessibility within protest and activist spaces. I’m…
Elise
I’m an American with disabilities and the parent of six children, several of whom have significant disabilities. I wouldn’t have been marching in the main march on Saturday because I’m an observant Jewish, but even if the march had been held on another day of the week my psychiatric conditions would have prevented me from…
Kara
I am joining the disability march because I have a chronic illness that prevents me from standing for long periods of time, and I still want my voice to be heard. I am also concerned about violence or mistreatment by police due to my status as a transgender individual if I were to try and…
Brianna Albers
I march because the incoming administration has declared the rights of human beings to be forfeit. Resistance isn’t just important; it is necessary, and ultimately, an act of love. Brianna Albers is a poet, writer, and storyteller, located in the Minneapolis suburbs. In 2016, she founded Monstering, a magazine for disabled women and nonbinary people; she currently serves as…
Lindsay Allen Clark
I want to march because of those who fear of being stripped of their civil liberties, fear for their safety and fear being removed from the place they call home. I want those people to know that they belong here and that those of us with the privilege to not have our citizenship questioned will…
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