rememberandhope

Why am I joining the march? I am currently in the hospital after having surgery to place a feeding tube to avoid malnutrition and get me healthy enough to have a spinal fusion. I have ehlers danlos syndrome, gastropariesis, cervical instability, and dysautonomia. I use a wheelchair, I have a port, and now a feeding…

Samantha Myers

I am joining the March because as a woman I deserve equality and respect!  

Shanna Yule

Why I Am Joining The March: I have battled Chronic Late Stage Lyme Disease for over 25 years. I am disabled. I cannot work. Most days I cannot even leave my bed or the couch because of pain, fatigue, and a billion other symptoms I fight 24/7. I do the best I can to just…

Melissa Kary

If I could march in person I would. I am for woman’s rights, because women are people too. I am for gay rights, because the members of the LGBTQ community are people too. Immigrants and refugees are people too, and we should be treating them with grace and dignity. I am for black lives, because…

xtaffi

I am a chronically ill person living with Fibromyalgia and CPTSD. Often I push through to conform to the overculture’s ableist expectations. Now more than ever, it feels important to keep dismantling my internalized ableism. As a mental health provider, if I had joined the march in person, I might have been out of commission for a long time afterwards…

Cynthia Bowden

Why I Am Joining The March: I have MS and worry about losing Social Security and Medicare. That would leave me without anything. Very worried about the incoming admin!!!

C. Blaise Mitsutama

Why I Am Joining The March: For the many who have suffered, and continue to suffer, injustice, inequality, exclusion, humiliation, economic/social/educational disadvantage, threats of physical violence, and acts of violence. For those who have sacrificed, and continue to sacrifice their time, financial security, and even their lives for social equity, diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, the…

Emily Van Ness

Why am I joining the march? Because I got to officiate my mother’s wedding last year and I don’t ever want that joy and triumph taken away from them. Because some of my best friends are not white and I don’t want them locked up, persecuted, demeaned, or targeted for being such. Because I am a…

Yvonne

  I am joining the march because even though my body couldn’t take it, I can’t sit and do nothing. We have to stand together for Human KIND. Visit my website at  http://Pixelpixiewebdesign.com.