Your Gay Cousin

Please help me out if you can

I’m a mixed afro-indigenous lesbian in the US and I was shot seven times with riot rounds from 20 feet away at a peaceful protest a few days ago while standing still and silent by myself in front of a line of armed police and soldiers after the crowd broke after we were tear gassed. Four of the hits caused serious injury and tore tendons in my arm and my calf. I’m proud of my decision to stand and let them shoot me over and over because I wanted to make a statement, I wanted to bring myself to risk my well being for something that I think really matters, and I wanted to stop the line from advancing on the rest of the fleeing crowd, but I’m in a lot of pain from the damage and my limbs ain’t working so great right now. 

The state is re opening soon and I don’t have a job, the job market is gonna be rough, and right now I have limited movement in my dominant hand/arm and both my legs so I don’t know when I’ll even be able to work. I have no money, I made like 4K last year, and I don’t really own much of anything, so if anyone can donate I just need money to live on- pay bills, rent, buy food and essentials, etc, and just stabilize my situation, I’d really appreciate it

This is why it’s important to SAY HER NAME OUTLOUD!!! Black women are dying and deserve justice too.

When what is actually needed and helpful are systematic large efforts whereby we all work together to slow the spread so that the number of high risk cases stays low enough for our healthcare system to handle. By which we protect the most vulnerable in our communities from exposure and ensure that the healthcare system has the supplies and resources to help them if they are exposed.

A corallory of that is we need to make sure important supplies are available to everyone who needs them.

If you hoard masks, you take them from those who need them, especially if they're medically rated ones. If you hoard soap you make it harder for your community to wash their hands and are contributing to a faster spread.

If you participate in rushes on large stores, jostling and competing to get supplies, you increase the chance of transmission in your community simply by the math of being in close contact with more people.

Exhausted people are easy to sell convenience to and easy to isolate. If we had time, we’d realize we don’t need them