Disability March

Lily Lockwood

Because I don’t like Donald Trump. My Mom has parkinsin disease. He’s mean, very inappropriate and creepy. Hes orange and that’s nots a skin color. I’m 12 years old and turning 13 in November. I’m in 6th grade at New River Middle School. I want to become a Marine Biologist when I grow up. My…

Deborah Missel

I have several autoimmune diseases, primarily Crohn’s Disease, and severe social anxiety which makes large, outdoor, crowded events extremely difficult for me. My sister Rebecca Missel, shared your group with me as a way for me to participate while she marches in New York Saturday. I am not able to attend the march taking place…

Danielle or SugarAgainstTheWorld

A woman with red hair and a white shirt laying against a red pillow I’m joining the disability march because I had planned to join the protest in my city but my body decided otherwise I’m an art student at Massachusetts School for Art and Design, I have a cat named Sugar and we supremely…

Angeline

I am underage and my father is disabled. He has to walk with the aid of a cane or walker everywhere he goes. My family could not travel to D.C. Without him because he needs our help with daily activities.

Lynn Johnson

My sister is marching and I wish I could be with her. Unable to be there due to the effects of a stroke but my heart is in Washington DC! My grandchildren will live in a country that embraces the values I grew up on. We must make that decision before it is too late,…

Katy Keene

I am joining the Disability March because as a physically disabled woman, I am unable to march in person. I march in protest of a man who did not win the popular vote and who I do NOT consider to be my President. I march for those who cannot. I march to protest and end…

Candyce

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…

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…