My friend is diabetic and in danger of going blind. Her name is Lianna, and we have been friends since elementary school. For the past several months I have been helping her pay for insulin since she is unemployed and has been so far unable to get medical assistance for this life saving drug. She is currently fighting to get Medicaid, but the process is taking too long for her to wait without seeking medical help. She has an appointment in July to see about getting Medicaid but by then it could be too late. She desperately needs to be seen by a doctor ASAP before the retinopathy progresses and she loses her sight.
I’m hoping that this will reach someone that is in a place where they would be able to help.
Her PayPal is sanfterdamon713@aim.com
She lives in Wyoming and I live in Maryland and it sucks because I can’t be there for her right now physically (the last time we saw each other was in 2015. That was the year she lost her dad, so I flew her out to visit and so we could attend Gridlock DC together). I just feel so helpless and I’m trying to do everything I can for her. I understand if you can’t donate, but if you could reblog that would mean the world. Thank you so much. ❤
Claire
5/1/2018
For those of you who know me, you know this is EXCEEDINGLY close to my heart. Not only do I remember meeting Lianna at gridlock, my husband was diabetic and I lost him in 09 to diabetes.
Retinopathy is no joke. Please, please if you can do anything to help. If you can’t, signal boost.
Tattooed and Chained on Etsy has dozens of pieces of chain mail and scale mail jewelry for pride, and I need you to go support the hell out of them.
Ace, Pan, Bi, Genderfluid, Trans, Non-Binary, Genderqueer, and plenty of rainbows if you want the broader umbrella. And multiple options across all of them. And a few solo pieces in other sexualities! AND they can do custom pieces! I am delighted and am probably going to need so many of them.
wouldn’t it be cool if sylvia rivera or marsha p. johnson were still alive and you could see what kind of activism they were doing now, and support it, and follow them on social media?
“It sure would!”
Gosh, imaginary reader, I agree! And you know what?
MISS MAJOR IS *ALSO* A TRANS WOMAN OF COLOR WHO WAS AT STONEWALL, AND SHE’S STILL ALIVE AND AMAZING AND I ALMOST NEVER SEE ANYBODY MENTION HER
And yes, that’s her Instagram, @missmajor1. And yes, you can look her up on Facebook under Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and she even follows back 😮
Looks like she’s even on Twitter, @immissmajor.
From missmajor.net:
“Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist.
Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons.
Miss Major is formerly the long-time executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), which advocates for trans women of color in and outside of prison. She is also the subject of a new documentary feature film currently showing around the country, MAJOR!”
She even has a GoFundMe, where people make one-time or recurring monthly donations to support this activist legend through her retirement:
9am saturday morning: “i’ve got the whole day, i’m gonna get so much done”
1pm saturday afternoon: still in my pajamas, on my 4th cup of coffee, deep in thought about generic subversion, censorship, and post-colonialism in 2000 animated gay romance “the road to el dorado”
Here’s the thing about body-shaming: you can’t do it on an individual basis. You can never body-shame only one person. If you make fun of a physical feature of someone you hate, it’s going to affect everyone who shares that feature, regardless of whether they share the trait that made you want to mock them in the first place.
If you make fun of a racist actress’s lips, you are implying that that feature is bad, and then anyone who shares that physical feature is going to be hit by that, regardless of whether they are racist themselves.
If you make fun of an evil politician’s body type, anyone who shares that body type will be hit by that.
When you body-shame, you are tying personality traits or evil actions to physical traits. You are tying racism to fatness. You are tying misogyny to big noses. You’re taking morally neutral traits–physical ones–and attaching unnecessary moral weight to them. Attractiveness is not synonymous with goodness. Unattractiveness is not synonymous with evil.
Suddenly being fat isn’t just a physical trait–it’s an indicator of moral worth.
It doesn’t matter if someone “deserves” to be body-shamed or not. There is no way to mock their appearance without it also hurting innocent people who happen to share features with that person.
When people say, for example, “stop fat-shaming Donald Trump” they’re not saying “you’re being so mean to Trump and he doesn’t deserve it.” They’re saying “you are inadvertently hurting people other than Trump, including some people who are already hurt by Trump himself.”
We had a show last weekend that went really, really badly.
Like, really badly. It ended up costing us several hundred dollars instead of making us money. And even with @dadhoc driving Uber this week and me busting my butt on as many commissions as I can humanly take on for graphic design, we’re still gonna have literally like $20 in our bank account come Tuesday.
The money that’s supposed to come in from Etsy is going to be enough to pay our monthly Etsy bill and keep the shop online, and until stuff comes in from Patreon or other sources, we will have, like, nothing.
We’re going away this weekend, to a LARP, but only because it costs us absolutely nothing – the LARP runner is paying for our gas and food, and I wrote him some modules in return – and because we planned that over a month ago for my birthday. But I’d really like to be able to buy more groceries next week and pay the overdue gas bill and stuff like that.
Y’all know I hate talking about stuff like this, but this is the roughest spot we’ve been in since we started doing NerdyKeppie full time. Things will get better but right now we could use a small helping hand.
Thank you so much! I’m about to add Pride swimsuits. 🙂
Spider is one of the best humans I’ve had the pleasure to interact with.
They’re art/ designs/ products are absolutely dope, top quality work.
If you’re looking for something epic or unique to wear to pride, if you want something to express yourself, if you have a custom design you want made for you, Spider is the person to get it from.
Please, if you have the means, get yourself something wonderful from the shop.
You always say the nicest things and I appreciate you very much. ❤
I just wish I had the actual fundage to support you directly. I’ve had an idea for a custom patch commission for months, but I’ve had two weeks of work in the last seven months and I can’t really make fun/ comfort purchases living off savings.
Hopefully soon things will kick back up and I’ll be able to get some of your excellent work for myself.
Take care of yourself first. I say it a lot but I hope you know I mean it. ❤
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