Why Am I Joining the Disability March? I am angry a minority of Americans elected a dictator as POTUS despite his being a sexual predator, alleged pedophile, continual liar, racist, xenophobe, misogynist, Narcissist, and someone who makes fun of disabilities. I am angry to refer to Trump as groper elect, not as president elect…

Artist, Writer, Disabled

  I join the disability march because I need to make a stand: I cannot walk far but I want to be counted. Instead of sadness – I celebrate my  ability to participate in any way possible. The more of us – the more a feeling of synergy grows. I don’t join the march as…

I have spent much of my life taking care of elderly and disabled relatives. Hard times made worse by the lack of adequate support for relative caregivers.  Apparently, the intention of the new administration is to kill off those beloved members of our families by totally eliminating those sparse resources.

I am joining the disability march to share my voice where it will be heard.  Women’s health takes a back seat to patriarchal industrial economics.  We must take a more holistic matriarchal look at what constitutes health including food production, industrial and environmental toxins, and pharmaceuticals.  We need to focus on how we can better…

I am doing this because, quite frankly, I’m scared. And not only scared for myself as a multiply disabled trans man, but for basically everyone in my life and all around the country, (from sea to Fucking Shiny sea). When I get scared, I need to fight the source, but I’m a brawler, not an…

My daughter deserves a quality education her autism and severe anxiety do not define her she defines herself. I want her to be everything she is meant to be.

Although I live in DC, I have COPD which makes my breathing and my stamina too difficult to join the march. I am a COPD patient advocate who is also a former registered nurse and respiratory therapist. I will be home wearing my pink sweatshirt and red had and will be with you in spirit….

My name is Suzi Duke. I can’t join our local Women’s March because I’m battling leukemia. I have to avoid crowds, and don’t have a lot of stamina. I became permanently disabled due to both my disease and the treatments I must undergo to stay alive. The health care/insurance issue is a life-and-death matter to…