Steph I’m joining the disability march because I’m a spoonie with multiple chronic illnesses, who depends on the ACA like so many of the chronically ill and disabled. I’m joining the disability march for people like my mom, who suffered both cancer and job lock in the days before ACA. I’m joining the disability march…
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Robin Anderson
I’m here because I believe in compassion, equality, hope, reason, and humanity. Chronic pain and illness have been with me for the majority of my life. Migraines, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, permanent back pain from a car accident… all these and more have restricted the ways I can interact with the world. My disabilities are…
Miriam Mason
Why I Am Joining The March : Because I live with chronic illness, as do my two children with autism whom a Trump Administration will harm without so much as a second thought, because I cannot fathom a sexual predator as president, because I am a woman, strong, good, ethical, and powerful and I will…
Nell Fuqua
Why I Am Joining The March : I suffer from severe peripheral neuropathy and am unable to march in this historic event. I am joining because I want to stand up for disabled people everywhere! Thank you so much for creating this platform for those of us who would have been excluded.
Susan Brown Aweida Plu
Why I Am Joining The March : For too long I have focused on just life in my own little circle. Generally comfortable and safe in the trust that our American leaders could be reasonably relied on to represent and care for me, my family, my city, my state and my country. Complacent is the…
Yvonne Wakefield
Why I Am Joining The March : Unable to attend the march due to rheumatoid disease. Smiling woman with long, curly, dark hair and brown eyes wearing a red top
Rebecca Long
Why I Am Joining The March : I am joining the March because I feel that many aspects of my personhood are threatened and I must fight for both myself and others to create a country that values all bodies and minds. I’m autistic and have anxiety, so I am unable to attend a physical…
Stephanie Blumensaat
Why I Am Joining The March : to ensure American women’s reproductive freedom their continued right and access to birth control, abortion, and health care. to ensure girls, boys, men and women know that grabbing a women by the pussy is not okay, despite the new President of the United States stating: “Grab them by…
Deborah Friedman
Why I Am Joining The March : Health care access! Civil Rights! Marriage Equality!
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