I’m joining the disability march because I want to join the Women’s March on Washington, but am prevented from doing so due to my fibromyalgia. Even though I’m mostly mobile, walking long distances and standing for too long is exhausting – and I can only imagine what the technical impossibility of driving down, finding parking,…

I’m marching in solidarity with all the other individuals who are fighting to keep this country truly great – which is not what the incoming administration thinks it is.

My name is Lisa Mangum. The reasons I want to march, compound weekly as assaults on my sensibilities as a woman, a veteran, a former member of the military intelligence community, a former financial advisor, a student, a former exchange student and adult volunteer with exchange programs, and a person with disabilities just keep coming….

I am joining the disability march because I had a hysterectomy on the 19th and will be unable to march in person so soon after surgery. I am a grant coordinator for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. I’m a passionate defender of human rights, especially reproductive rights, the right to education, and the…

I am marching because I believe in Freedom. Equality. Democracy! I am 90 years old and have never wavered in my belief on dignity.  I am blind but I CAN SEE.

I march because to sit here and not march is to condone and normalize what is heinous and despicable.

  I am an autistic, mentally ill, and physically disabled eighteen year old girl, as well as a wheelchair user. Why I’m marching: I am disabled, amongst so many other things that put me in marginalized groups, and I am scared.  I am scared for myself and everyone I care about, I am scared for everyone…

I join this march to denounce this hate. Islamophobia, Racism and Misogyny are not American values.

..this is what matters: Love, togetherness, and finding the light in the darkness.