hi we haven't been able to get any $$ for a couple of weeks and we are out of meds + have to pay car insurance on the van we live in by Sunday. It's basically our rent.
MA has been stalling for everyone I know who relies on it. I know ppl who have to post on social media like 50+ times a day just to keep eyes on their account. We can't do that.
You know everyone hates having to make these posts. I know the rise in cost of living is hitting everyone hard. I know the vast majority of my fellow Americans are in the same boat as us.
But please don't forget about people like us as the world turns.
Being forgotten is how disabled people die.
Fwiw, I am working on some written pieces I wanna publish to Kofi soon. I just started a deep dive on the poorhouses of the 17 and 1800s and how they compare to the homeless shelters of today, as well as comparing a few other things, such as societal attitudes and factors of the times. I'm writing a personal piece to clarify how I became homeless. I'm writing another, unrelated piece about how COVID is affecting dogs and dog owners. I'm floating two completely different pieces of fanfic and two different novels. I'm also trying to get my photography business back off the ground while being extremely ill and having no healthcare.
I have little to offer but I share everything that I can. I'm open to being promoted/commissioned for a piece you'd rather see. Or hired for transcription/to make subtitles for your video, interview or podcast. I'm open to taking pics of just about anything. I do that stupid InboxDollars app. I do everything I can to keep us afloat, and I make just about all of it public.
But if even abled people who can work are putting out 800+ applications at a time and only getting 1% calling back for interviews, how the hell are we supposed to do it? If the paradigm is "work or die" and you can't work, well... You know what the other option is.
The only way we survive a system designed to kill us is if other people decide otherwise and help us live.
You can assist in changing the fates of people like us by sending us $20 and reblogging a simple post. Some of the simplest and yet most direct action you can ever take is to support the people your unjust fascist government has decided are not worth supporting.
I hate having to beg for our lives to stay alive. Nobody fucking enjoys this. It's demeaning. I miss the dignity of being compensated for my actual work. But I haven't been employable since 2013 and then AI replaced me as a freelancer. I also had to flee my hometown this winter and go south bc the weather was too harsh.
We are disabled, high care needs and medically vulnerable, we are trans refugees of the state, we are climate refugees, we are homeless, we have been denied housing and evicted both for being disabled and for being queer.
This world tries it's damnedest every day to kill us and make us give up, and tbqh we have long started asking ourselves how much more of this we can take. We almost died several times this winter. We have already been homeless for three years. The live expectancy for chronically homeless people like us is just 40 - 50 years old. I'm in my 30s and already visibly declining. We are no contact with our families bc they are bigots who hate us for being disabled and trans alike. We have a handful of friends helping us from near and far away but we still have so many unmet needs.
Sorry for the rant but I am really worried about this today. Bare minimum, I need $120 by about tomorrow and another $130 by Sunday. I might have to sell the only solar panel we have for the van to make ends meet. I really do wish I could just go back to work. I think of 1,000 jobs every single day that I would love to do. But it doesn't work like that anymore.
I have some other writing up on Kofi, @idleseas-ops (all my own ops from Tumblr) and @vagabongdage (collection of my OPs + other people's posts + news/research about homelessness) and my photography can be found @idleseas
If any of my work or my life experience speaks to you, a tip in the Kofi jar always helps. Even $1.
We currently have about .70c between the two of us to make ends meet.
