Original date Feb 28, 2022, so written back when this was recent news:
After hearing about the very bad news in Texas, I knew I wanted to help. I'm going to donate more often from now on. But even before that, I was aware I wanted to do more, though it seemed like I, a mere cis Australian, can't really do much else to help Texas (we can't exactly contact the politicians that aren't ours).
When I was thinking about all the news happening, they sort of collided into me thinking about old World War II war bond posters. That gave me the idea to remake a war bond poster with my collage techniques into a poster/flyer promoting donations that would help trans youth and their families in Texas. At least organisations to start off with, there's many more and GFMs to look up.
I mean, twitter has been promoting many organisations and such to donate to, but the thing is not everyone is on twitter (Current Me: especially with what twitter is going through at the moment). There has to be a way to reach out internationally, but not just on social media. Physical media can though, with the help of social media to get started.
So, this is what this poster/flyer is for. It's designed to be printed (on A3 paper, but it could be shrunken down onto A4) to be spread around and put up publicly by anyone who wants to help. You can right click and save it from here or use the PDF linked below. Just be sure to use scissors on the flyer's tabs so passers-by can easily tear them off.
If you're somewhere in which trans rights flyers like this aren't exactly welcome, instead of putting them up publicly, hide them in places that could be found by those who could help or discreetly pass them on to those you can trust. Now it would be ridiculous for me to make something with this purpose without having languages other than English.
Unfortunately, my autism ensures that learning multiple languages is just not that possible for me personally, and Google translate isn't that trustworthy. But if anyone wants this in another language that they know, just request the files that allow you to edit the text and even the word balloons, through my Twitter (ask for a direct message) or comment and message through my Ko-Fi.
I have to know what software you have to see if I need to change the files' format, and I want to be sure you're not someone who just wants the files to make their version of the flyer into something transphobic. I have the username 'LaurenFoxWrites' on both sites. Good luck, everyone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CEBGiG_7hzxC0WiHgZ_SVseimptWP9Y/view?usp=sharing
https://twitter.com/LaurenFoxWrites
https://ko-fi.com/laurenfoxwrites
The Donation sites themselves:
https://secure.everyaction.com/Aluze8fLdEmlU5KgX5Ar1w2
https://www.equalitytexas.org/take-action/donate/give/
https://outyouth.kindful.com/
https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/63307/#!/donation/checkout
https://www.aclutx.org/en/donating-aclu-general-information
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate
https://donate.glad.org/give/123741/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=webheader
