Why I Am Joining The March : I am a 26 year old, disabled, Native, autistic, queer cis-woman. I am unable to join the physical March due to my own physical limitations and inability to be within stressful, crowded situations. I am so thankful that this Disability March is available so that I, too, can…

  I think that a lot of people feel we are in a post-feminist culture– that women and men are treated equally. Sadly, this is just not so. I am marching because we continue to live in a culture that at the core truly does not treat men and women as equal, as evidenced throughout…

Why I Am Joining The March : As a woman with physical limitations, I march so that my friends and I have availability and equal access to healthcare — including planned parenthood and medications. Right now I and my friends are covered under the ACÁ, but how many of us will still be alive should…

Why I Am Joining The March : Though I live relatively close to DC and initially planned to participate in person, the reality that I’m physically not up to it set in all too quickly. I was diagnosed in 2015 at age 37 with De Novo Stage IV HER-2+ Metastatic Inflammatory Breast Cancer. While I’ve battled…

I have severe agoraphobia, and since November, it’s been much harder to fight and convince myself it’s safe to leave the house. But I believe with my whole being that women’s rights are human rights, and they are at risk from this new administration, especially women of color, trans women, disabled women and all marginalized…

Why I Am Joining The March : I am a disabled, queer white cis-woman. I ‘march’ in solidarity with women, people of color, trans and queer community, sex workers, disabled people. I ‘march’ for my gender-fluid disabled child. I ‘march’ in resistance to hate, discrimination, and bigotry. I ‘march’ because this will not be tolerated and…

I am a LGBT woman with fibromyalgia and bipolar disorder. Donald Trump has said repeatedly that women like me are just ‘lazy’ or ‘crazy’. Mike Pence is incredibly, incredibly anti-LGBT rights. Between the two of them, I fear for my health, my safety, and my rights. I want to stand up and fight back.

As a milenial with muscular dystrophy I have been able to benefit from the years of fighting by those before me for people with disabilities. As a woman, I have been able to benefit from the years of fighting by those before me for women’s rights. And as an American, I have been able to…