As a long time disability rights advocate and a person with hidden disabilities, I am so grateful this event is being arranged! Caring for terminally ill father so must stay by his side, and he is rooting us all on.
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Jules Mohr
I am joining the March because my invisible disability prevents me from physically marching. I believe that civil rights for all are being endangered. I am disturbed by the racial violence happening in our country. I am concerned for the rights of women and LGBTQA people.
Amy Becker
Someone recently told me they wished they hadn’t missed me in my prime. I had always been very active and healthy until two and a half years ago when my autonomic nervous system started failing me, affecting everything from my heart rate to temperature regulation, and I was diagnosed with Dysautonomia. But I believe in…
Ed Myers
I strongly believe that injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. We all benefit from treating each other with respect dignity and respect. Donald Trump does neither to women or the disabled. I cannot and will not support his presidency.
Nina Grey
My name is Nina Grey. I live in Columbia SC where I moved 5 months ago when I retired from parish ministry after serving for 34 years in four congregations overall. I have always been active in doing what I can for the sake of a world of greater inclusivity and justice for my child…
Xandra Coe
I will be there in spirit, but I’m not able to physically. Thanks for setting this up to provide another venue for participation.
Julie Feuerbacher
I won’t be able to join my sister and her friends at the march in Denver because of my degenerative lumbar scoliosis and hip arthritis, which make being on my feet for more than a few minutes very painful. But I care deeply about what’s happening to women’s rights in this country, and I’m very…
Susan Elizabeth Spann
I want to march because disabled women with pre-existing conditions should not have to worry about not having proper access to healthcare they need. I march for my mom who is a woman veteran too and also disabled.
Anna EldenBrady
My family depends on the Medicaid expansion and CHIP to cover two disabled adults and a special needs child (in adition to our child without special needs). Of all the many reasons I have for marching, this is the most urgent. Functioning in society requires medications and specialist visits we cannot otherwise afford.