Picture caption – A feminine person with short brown hair in a pink tank top holds a small green parrot perched on her finger up to her puckered lips for a kiss. They are shown in profile. I’m joining the disability march because I oppose the incoming administration’s policies on rolling back health care accessibility…
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Lynn Amer
I am a single mother of an 18 year old daughter. She & I both have invisible illnesses that literally and financially disable us. Our immune systems fight against us daily. I can no longer work. Without the Affordable Healthcare Act I would not be able to afford coverage. Without coverage I would be unable…
Carol McNelley
This March is so important. We cannot go backwards in the rights of women and minorities. I wish I could be there. I have many disabilities which keep me from being in DC or locally. Blessings to all the women warriors!
Sarah Warren
Photo: Young woman with pink knitted pussy hat in a blue tank top, with glasses I’m joining the virtual march because I believe that women’s rights are important. I have social anxiety and agoraphobia and can not be in large crowds or travel to new places easily, but I’m there in spirit!
Jaime McKay
I am joining the march for the future my 10 year old daughter will inherit. For the protection of the healthcare I desperately need as I constantly battle Lymphoma and the drastic side effects of that battle. For my fiance who has brown skin and is a legal alien. And for basic humanity and morals…
Jill Minar, Ph.D.
Photo: Woman standing in black coat/blue jeans with a cane. Brown hair. I am a woman, I have disabilities, I am an educator, and a scientist. The up-coming administration is either ignorant or callus in regards to all four. They clearly need help to become educated about women’s rights, the rights of disabled people, the…
Damini Sharma
My name is Damini Sharma from Pennsylvania. I wanted to join the women’s march on New York but I have a chronic auto immune illness. I am Ali legally blind. That however, makes me feel more strongly than ever to support people with disabilities to not get complacent. It’s time for people to come together!Thank…
Max Vasilatos
Artist in San Francisco. Reason for joining the Disability March rather than other marhces: Too exhausting with MS, wish I could be there.
Cara Herbitter
I had hoped to attend the Boston solidarity March but as a Jewish Sabbath observer I would need to walk there. Because of chronic foot pain, I anticipate it will be too difficult for me to walk there and back and so I am participating virtually. I am so horrified that Trump won this election…
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