Why I Am Joining The March: My husband and I are both disabled. He is a vet with a service related disability, but without the support we receive currently through Social Security, we would be living in our car. As it is, we manage to make do. We both deal with different disabilities and perhaps that…

Why I Am Joining The March: Because I wish I could be there.  I’m marching virtually from NB, Canada and have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Because even though I’m from Canada, the reverberations of this election and inauguration are being felt every day. Because my friends are scared for their future. Because it matters.

Why march? I virtually march for every woman who battles Multiple Sclerosis every day whose days consist of staggers & stumbles, drops her words mid sentence and mumbles, whose friends say that “when you talk about advocating for MS, you just want attention”(false!), resulting with friendships developing trouble, whose brain function sometimes becomes jumbled and…

Why I am joining: I grew up in the dark ages before Children’s Insurance Program Single Mom and I struggled with my Rheumatoid Arthritis Mom was a nurse when nurses and doctors within a hospital looked upon each other as family.These people helped us/me survive.All my life choices controlled by “pre-exisiting condition”/uninsurabilty. My best friend…

Why am I joining in this way? I have chronic pain due to a spinal disorder and a chronic illness that affects my joints, leading to constant knee dislocations. Most people wouldn’t know this just by looking at me, because I seem physically abled. I want to protest and have my voice heard, especially as…

Why I Am Joining The March: Whilst currently holding down a four day a week job, I do not have the energy to travel and march in London today as I would have liked. I am joining the disability march in solidarity for people who feel fearful for their well being as we go into…

I am marching (virtually) in hope that my four amazing nieces will keep the rights my great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother’s generations fought for and to which I have been privileged. I am marching in hope that my nieces will one day have full equal rights, equal pay, equal access to healthcare, equal access to justice…

Why I am joining the march: The President of the USA has power that extends way beyond the USA. His hateful agenda affects the whole world. I am bisexual, queer, chronically ill, and Pagan. I have family of both blood and soul here and in the USA who are all of the above, and transgender,…