a gentle reminder that you did well this year. you met new people, learned new things and felt new feelings. you did so many things that made you scared. you picked yourself up off the floor after feeling completely defeated or heartbroken. there were some really tough nights but you survived them all. you made people happy just by existing. you accepted many goodbyes but the serendipitous meetings made up for them. it was your own hard work that paid off but you always downplay it or compare yourself to others. that’s not fair on yourself. you’ve come so far from the first day of this year. you have more wisdom and strength now. yes, other people seem more “successful” but does that even matter? please don’t think so lowly of yourself to only think about your failures. 2018 was your year of growth. I hope you take a moment to be kind to yourself, and believe that 2019 will be even better.
Brookhill Village in Charlotte, NC, is being demolished. Hundreds of African-American families are going to be evicted, and there are no plans to offer them any sort of affordable alternative to their homes, which are now being demolished.
Developers like Shook Kelley are actively demolishing the neighborhood and replacing it with higher-end housing that will “attract millenials” without a second thought of what will become of Brookhill’s current residents.
In other words, this is another step in the process of gentrifying Charlotte, making it essentially unlivable for all of the communities that have lived here throughout its entire history.
The developers and architects of this project to displace an entire community have continued shamelessly and unchallenged, what little publicity this event has received has been glamorous news reels, talking of plans to “revitalize” a working-class community.
This Thursday, December 13th, I hope that I can help change that.
A small organization has gathered around the purpose of offering some kind of meaningful resistance - I am proud to say that I have been doing what I can to aid in these efforts.
The main goal of everyone involved has been to organize a community meeting this Thursday in order to rally the community to defend their homes.
However, as you can imagine, this is not as simple as handing out flyers and expecting everyone to be there - I must once again stress that the residents of Brookhill are working class families who work long hours, and need a material reason to show up in opposition to a developer who is literally burning down flyers and posters that mention the event.
The organization, STP Charlotte, has vowed to do their best to
provide transportation to and from the meeting as well as provide food
and child care at the meeting itself.
As you can imagine, this costs money.
If you have the money to spare, I ask that you send what you can to help organize this meeting. This really means a lot to me, but it would certainly mean a whole lot more to the families living in such a precarious housing situation.
Google Pay: ServeThePeopleCLT@Gmail.com
Venmo: @STP-CLT
If you can’t spare any money, consider reblogging this post, and if you know anyone in the area, be sure to let them know.
We are Cat and Roy, a married couple living in an unconverted school bus in Colorado. Winter is coming and we aren’t prepared. We are also unemployed. We used to work for Labor Ready, but they’ve fallen off so hard we can’t get work from them any more. We’re currently looking for work, but it’s not easy going.
I (Cat) have chronic pain and depression, both of which I’ve only just begun receiving treatment for. As of right now I have a plethora of doctors appointments I’m struggling to keep, including physical therapy every week. I haven’t been able to work at a scheduled job in about two years, but I’m currently seeking employment, as is Roy.
I also do tarot readings online ( @psychic-cat ) and I make porn (Manyvids.com/ladythc), although the porn production has been difficult in the bus, especially now that it’s cold.
Last month we gave shelter to a homeless mother and child for about a week and that kind of set us back a bit (not that we would have had it any other way given their situation).
We had hoped to insulate the bus by now and have a better heating system. As of right now we have cardboard in some of the windows and a small propane heater that runs on small canisters ($4 = 6 hours of heat).
We’re also currently pretty low on food, although we could manage some sad-ass meals over the next day or two. We have a stove we can cook on, but it also takes propane canisters. One of those lasts about two days on the stove.
Until one of us finds a job and starts getting paid, we are going to have to rely on donations as our main source of income.
Task Rabbit took our application fees and never contacted us, despite us reaching out to them multiple times.
Amazon accepted both of our applications, but are telling us they can’t place us at any of their locations here (which seems really fishy to me…)
We haven’t heard anything from any of the other places we’ve applied, but we’re keeping at it.
I seem to be working up a cold, though, so I suspect I’m gonna be useless for the next few days.
There are LOTS of ways you can help and support us!
Tarot readings (Message @psychic-cat or @the-ladythc)
Please let me know if any links don’t work! Tumblr likes to mess with them…
Thank you for reading! Please pass this along if you can’t donate 💜
P.S. I suspect we’ll be needing this for a while, so please don’t assume we don’t need help any more if this gets a lot of notes.
Hey everybody, thank you so much for reblogging and donating and buying porn and tarot readings and everything!
I had two job interviews last week. One place didn’t want me because I can’t lift things and the other place offered me a job, but they wanted me to work 4 days in a row every week, which my body cannot currently handle, so I had to decline.
Roy’s also been sending out applications all over the place and hasn’t heard a call back. Most of his work experience has been in construction and he’s trying to get out of that because it beats his body up. My situation is a lot worse, but Roy’s been having issues with his knees and shoulders this year that have caused him to miss out on a lot of work.
We were able to get our van out of impound, get it insured, and get temporary license plates on it (it needs an immissions test before they’ll give us real plates, which costs about $100). We also got the temporary plates off the bus and real ones put on, thank god. We were also able to get our generator repaired and we got a real propane tank, so we can have the heat and electricity on whenever we need it.
We are currently trying to sell the van so we can put a grate on the back of the bus for the generator, propane, and big tools, but so far no bites.
As of right now we need food and gas, and the opportunity to insulate the bus. We are gonna run out of cash in a couple days.
Google wallet is fucking up and we can’t accept money there any more.
We still need help, but I’ll try to be better at keeping y'all up to date on the job hunting. I have another interview on Tuesday.
I’ve also started working on some Christmas tree ornaments that will be available for sale soon.
And I will let you guys know how Wind is doing when I can get ahold of her, idk what’s going on there :/
🚨December 9 🚨
As far as job hunting goes, Roy hasn’t gotten a single call back and I only got a call back for a job where they needed me to work longer hours and more days in a row than I can handle.
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i’m trying to get money together for fixing my teeth after most of them were smashed out in a transphobic assault a while back, and i’m about to hit a huge milestone with that, i’m only about $525 from having a huge chunk able to be taken care of, and i’m so fucking grateful for anyone and everyone who’s helped spread my posts and donated to me, this is incredible. if anyone can help with anything more to push me over this next hurdle, it would be so goddamn appreciated and i can’t even begin to express how much it’ll mean to me, you’re literally helping me eat and not be in agony constantly. my paypal is paypal.me/awesomandias or at manicpixietransgrrrl@gmail.com, i wish it wouldn’t deadname me but whatcha gonna do, and my venmo is @lyrafromtheinternet. any little bit is so fucking helpful, and gets me closer to being able to smile and not have nails jamming into my skull from the pain 🖤
i’m down to needing 470, i know i can get this done!! 🖤🖤🖤
400 to go, let’s get my mouth not broken!! 👄
i also have cashapp now, at $LyrafromtheInternet if that makes it easier for anyone, so there’s that and venmo, also @lyrafromtheinternet and my paypal at paypal.me/awesomandias, please please please help me be able to eat without agony soon 👄🖤💜
i have to push this a lot because i don’t know how much longer i’ll have the reach from it, but i’m so so close to being able to schedule a big important piece of work that will mean i’m not chewing on only one piece of my mouth and slowly dislocating my jaw anymore, not to sound beggy but tbh at this point i’m straight up begging 💜
Hey so I have like. .2 cents in the bank and we are out of food and our power is gonna be shut off soon if we can’t pay it :) I get paid Friday but my hours were cut in half and I don’t know how I’m gonna afford anything, I’m freaking out. I just applied for food stamps today and am gonna try and visit some food banks soon … Anything you can donate really would help a lot. Thank you so much !
It’s Christmas, and all I’m getting is kicked out! I don’t have any money at all, and I’m working on a job. No one in my family wants to help me, and I have no where to go. I really hate to ask but please, if you could donate anything at all, I’d really appreciate it. Seriously even a dollar would help in this situation. Also if you’d like, you could get me something of my wishlist! Thanks for even considering, really.
im a dysphoric nb lesbian and im broke and my inability to leave the house or do anything is making me feel suicidal please consider donating to my paypal https://www.paypal.me/castrumfluminis
November 11th: Hi everyone, I’m Gemma and I’m so sorry to have to ask this again but, would anyone be able to send me a few £’s to help me get through the winter months, especially Christmas & New Year?!
If anyone has been following me for any amount of time, you’ll know how much I’ve been struggling these past few months due to my welfare benefits (Universal Credit & Housing Benefit) being revoked and without any government aid I’ve been drowning in debt and struggling to make ends meet. My benefits have been on and off sanctions for almost a year and so far, I’ve been managing to get by with help of some of the kindest people in the world, but as it’s now winter where I live, I’m struggling to get through the festive period and I’m not due to receive a partial-benefit payment until the New Year and I desperately need help to pay my tax + phone bill, get groceries and keep my heating/water on to stay warm. I’m literally freezing, hungry and drowning in debt at the moment because of my sanctions and since this situation has been ongoing for so long, government aid/food banks are unable to offer me any more assistance
I’ve also created a wishlistwith some essential items + Christmas gifts to help me get by (thermal clothing, boots etc..) and as many of the items are from the marketplace, you’ll need to join my listto buy any items.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and keep me warm and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to buy anything off my wishlist or donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖
It would really mean so much to me guys if anyone could possibly help out, I desperately need help to get through Christmas and New Year and I’m struggling so much to do so. Literally anything helps right now. 🙏💖