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Charity Auction Art for @ywmlp 💕

Learn about the event below the cut:

my postcard for You Wrote Me A Lovely Postcard, a fundraising event for the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights!

The auction has been open for just about two hours now and we've already raised over $6000!! I love our crew so much. 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🦄🍊💙

This account will be showcasing art for auction over the next few days, but first, we wanted to tell you about the organization our fundraiser is supporting.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/, is a 501c3 nonprofit that has been helping immigrant children for over 20 years. 

For many reasons, children can wind up in the US immigration system without a responsible adult or guardian. This system is incredibly complex and can be daunting to navigate for adults - imagine being a child who has no legal training, is far from any adults who know them, and maybe doesn’t speak English.

The Young Center steps in to help these children in a number of ways:

They advocate for children’s wishes and best interests

They fight for children’s right to be with family - ensuring that no matter what, children are with a trusted, adult caregiver.

They strive for an immigration system that centers children’s rights and best interests throughout all steps of their detention and release.

They ensure kids can access fair proceedings and permanency - meaning that children and their families have fair opportunities in court and the right to seek permanent protection in the U.S.

They amplify and uplift children’s voices.

Finally, they support safe communities - because children don’t thrive alone. 

One of the biggest things they do is provide independent Child Advocates to unaccompanied and separated children - advocating for them with US government officials and, if necessary, providing safe repatriation support to children returning to their home country.

Supporting the Young Center not only helps children trapped in a system that we know can cause them immense harm - it also helps keep the web of nonprofits that support all immigrants in the USA able to do their important work. 

It’s no secret that the current administration has targeted funding for all kinds of crucial services that people inside the US - both citizens and non-citizens - pay extensive taxes to support. Nonprofits all over the country are currently struggling due to loss of federal grants; this effect is trickling down to state and city funded grants as well as some states struggle to fill in service gaps caused by Medicaid and SNAP cuts. 

Please help us support the Young Center at this critical moment for the rights of immigrants and particularly immigrant children - and if you have other favorite nonprofits in the US doing liberatory work under this administration, support them too! 

hey do you wanna help some kids facing deportation like the more than 600 unaccompanied guatamalan kids this ghoulish admin tried to deport with no notice, no process, and no plans for their care after deportation

and you can also get this really cool af fan art of darcydog i drew

or this home postcard i also drew which is like my childhood in a nutshell

you can buy these cards as part of a pack of postcards in a fundraiser hosted by several lovely souls in the ofmd fandom, benefitting THE YOUNG CENTER which is a badass org providing boots on the ground support to kids in the US facing deportation or navigating parental deportation or even attempting safe repatriation

these folks provide legal advocates for court proceedings, support for the stakeholders and social networks that help these kids establish lives here in the states, litigate against The Ghouls for broad immigration rights, and make sure these kids aren't forgotten or lost in the system.

my two postcards are available as part of a postcard pack (each in a pack of 4 and a pack of 12) which you can find here!!

you do have to sign up for a 32auctions account so they can collect your info and when the auction (not actually an auction, it's a direct buy) is over they'll send you an email with your total and how to donate, and then the organizers will send you your postcards!! check out some of the other postcards folks have submitted as well!!

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Heyy! The You Wrote Me a Lovely Postcard fundraising campaing for immigrant kids is still going strong, and you can now bid on this postcard signed by the amazingly talented Hayley Egan and Gypsy Taylor.

Should I mention you'll also win a merStede bum heart patch made from the tail's leftovers?

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other—

What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?

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Super mega cool limited edited postcard for the ‘You Wrote Me a Lovely Postcard’ auction campaign — raising funds for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.

Check out 100+ beautiful pieces of postcard art in sets of 4 and 12– note this will be the only way to purchase my piece!

Art previews are now live for You Wrote Me A Lovely Postcard!

This is my completed artwork, a very clearly Great Gatsby inspired piece!