I’ve never posted anything like this before for myself but I’m out of options. My name is Alyssa. I’m an autistic genderqueer Black lesbian and I live with my partner who is an autistic nonbinary lesbian. We are also both disabled and severely mentally ill.
We’ve been struggling so much lately. My hours were cut at work because of COVID and because my employers found out I was gay. My partner is both applying for disability and seeking employment. Since we live in a conservative rural Southern town, we face a lot of discrimination which has massively impacted our financial state.
And it’s gotten progressively worse. I’m struggling to afford basic things like my rent, car note, medications, food, and warm clothes for the winter. I don’t enjoy this. I can’t describe how humiliating it is to have to beg for help like this. But we have no other options right now.
Even if you can’t donate, please reblog… Thank you all so much.
paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cryptidfriend105 (please ignore my partner’s deadname)
cashapp: $AlyssaKennedy96
venmo: @Alyssa-Kennedy-37
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"You matter in this space right here, as you are."
—Morgan Harper Nichols
I’m gonna add onto this in a while when I’m free but i had an epiphany recently: Helen made friends with melanie because she was probably gonna try and eat her
White people: if you want to help long term: get used to being told your opinion is wrong, irrelevant, or unwanted. Tell your friends to get used to it. Work on getting used to it and do this work with other white people. Because white supremacy has all of y’all very used to being right and being an inherently valued voice and if we’re going to fight white supremacy you’re going to have to be comfortable surrendering that expectation and also white people will need to learn how to handle being rejected or disagreed with. It’s an extension of racism and racial trauma for black people to try and educate or speak up about our issues only to expose ourselves to your white fragility which makes you defensive– this defensiveness can look like shutting down, silencing us, painting all corrections or disagreements as ‘fighs’ (extending the idea that black people are aggressive) etc.
White resilience is the opposite of white fragility and black people are VERY good at resilience, unfortunately. Listen to us we know how to combat this.
Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.
Reblog for those who might need it.
hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak
Lol
:)
hey there, the uk government is trying its hardest to make it practically impossible for trans people to transition, here’s a twitter thread and two carrds that further explain the situation (click on the underlined parts for links)
+ only if you are a british citizen or a uk resident please sign this petition that will help reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans people to self id w/out need for a medical diagnosis and to allow nonbinary identities to be legally recognized.
if you are NOT a british citizen/live in the uk DO NOT sign the petition as the goverment will use invalid signatures as an excuse to dismiss the petition and the GRA will not be discussed in parliment.
please spread this post, time for trans people in the uk is very quickly running out
after weeks of work its finally done!
A DISTORTIONS TRIAL