Hello good morning friends, I have received another $70 to my fundraiser, I am already at $140, please continue sharing and donating, I am even closer to my small goal, please help me, I would like to be able to get a safe place today, I will finally be able to buy some food thank you very much everyone please keep helping🤞🏼🏳️⚧️ #MutualAid#TransCrowdfund @mutualaid@BigAngBlack@BlackMastodon@blackmastodon@vantablack
A co-follower that I've had many interactions with, posted the following mutual aid request for me on several platforms. I thought I should give some details:
I'm used to be one who helps, and have never had ask for mutual aid but, the need is increasingly desperate. My SSDI (SS disability) was unjustly cut off and the fight to restore it could take months or years.
I don't even know how to go about mutual aid but, I've been laboring over a more detailed explanation of my situation to post at a later time. In short, I'm struggling to have enough to eat, facing eviction from an ablest/abusive environment and having what little I own being held hostage by a person who offered storage in the guise of "Christian" charity. When I did not respond to his recruitment and grooming, he became aggressive, abusive and locked my belongings away from me.
The belongings include sentimental items, all of my legal docs and IDs, medical devices, and a few furniture items, one of which is an expensive recliner to accommodate my physical disabilities. The individual is threatening to sell them, give them away or throw them out. There are many other challenges I'm facing and have set a goal on my ko-fi page that I hope will be enough.
There's not a lot of work for a person with one functioning hand and a myriad of other physical and invisible disabilities. My numerous attempts to find online work from home have been unsuccessful and soon, may not have a home to work from. As my health allows, I spend 24/7 writing and fighting for disability rights, posting regularly on Mastodon.
Any assistance in the form of mutual aid and online "work from home opportunities" would be greatly appreciated. Monthly donors of small amounts would be a tremendous help to help me to continue what I do. One-time donations of any amount would also be helpful to my survival. My phone has also recently been cut off. If I end up on the street without it or Internet access, it could spell the end of my writing and advocacy efforts. This is not considering what may happen to me in that situation. I would be internally thankful for any assistance that would help me to survive and continue my work.
Immediate needs: food, funds for housing, phone reactivation. I also apparently need to rent a truck and pay people to retrieve my belongings from this "director of international Christian missionary ministry" who has possession of everything I own.
Edit: Please BOOST. We are at 600/2000. Currently living in my van. I have no access to a shower. It's been 86 days since the last time I slept in an actual bed and my body is really feeling it. Any help is appreciated 💜