I believe that we CAN be a compassionate society, but a lot of work needs to be done in order for us to stop pretending we are one, and actually rise to the occasion to be one.

I am a TBI survivor and Reiki practitioner/teacher, with family members whose conditions include developmental disabilities, autism, and chronic illness, and friends who span many colors, faiths, genders, and sexual orientations.  I march because… I choose love over bigotry and hate I choose kindness and compassion over narcissism and self-interest I choose action over vengeful re-action I choose gratitude over greed I choose peace over anger…

I am joining The March because I want to stand up for my rights as a woman and because I’m disabled due to a genetic condition called HAE (Hereditary Angioedema) and Fibromyalgia.

May they always have the legal right to control what happens to their own bodies, the financial capacity to follow their dreams and the moral compass to stand up for their own rights and those of every other living thing on this planet.

I’m a disabled Jewish woman. I want my president to be there for me, and Trump will not do that.

As a disabled lesbian I fear for myself and for the multitudes of other women, POC, disabled, and LGBT people under Trump’s rule, his policies and ideology based on hatred.

We are joining the Disability March in honor of our 5 month old daughter with Down Syndrome. As I write this we are with her in the pediatric unit of a hospital while our daughter recovers from open heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. We march for her to advocate for her so that…

And now he and his even-more-misogynist buddy Pence and their swamp monsters are prepared to turn this nation from the land of the free and the home of the brave to the land of the rich and the oppression of the poor.

Going back through history, lots of women have fought hard so that women today could have the privileges and rights we deserve and so many men are trying to take away from us.