Please help donate to my indigenous activist friend who is currently battling Cancer. she’s not only trying to cover her medical bills, but also building a movement to fight against the medical atrocities and neglect that other indigenous women/woc and working class women in New Orleans are facing. Please share her story ❤️
It took me a week longer then planned, but here it is! The Kickstarter for my Indie Bookstore & Market! Any and all help would be appreciated. That includes sharing, as sharing gets it out to people who would otherwise not hear about it, and increases the chances of hitting the funding goal. Thank you all!
Jaimi
I did a really long post on the Cosmos Market for those that are interested.
As Thanksgiving approaches, I would like to take a moment to thank each of you. Those who have baked this up and those who have shared this. I appreciate the support. May all of you have a wonderful rest of the week!
I do have a Ko-fi and PayPal, and I have been fortunate to have had wonderful folks help me through my first cancer diagnosis in 2015 and later when I was looking for work.
The medical bills are coming in, of course, but I know it is rough out there for so many of us.
I am relatively young but in final stage renal failure. I have a higher chance of survival IF I can recieve proper medical care AND LIVING ASSISTANCE in a different state. Get me OUT of Mississippi.
The long post w the good explanation is being shared but not inspiring much help. So, I simplified it.
My illness is straight up fatal. Not gonna beat around thatBush, anymore. I seem desperate for help because I AM desperate for help.
My nephrologist has seen enough improvement in my kidney function, lately, to believe someone my age (early 30s) might have a longer life WITH PROPER AND FREQUENT MEDICAL ATTENTION. Sadly, that just isn’t an option where I live.
Please, if you can help me with moving expenses (even just a couple of bucks) I would be grateful. I’m sinking fast in Mississippi and now my doctors are giving me too much hope to ignore. I wanna get out of this situation and I’m working my fatigued, brain-foggy ass off to make it out of here.
If I can undo the damage my heart failure caused to the rest of my body, I want to. I don’t want to spend another month KNOWING what I should be eating, what medicines I should be taking, what tests and treatments I should be getting… and receiving almost none of it because Mississippi lawmakers think people like me have somehow earned slow, painful deaths.
28 July: Due to ongoing issues with my mental health, including a suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalisation, I have not been able to work enough hours to pay my rent this month. I’ve tried everything I can but I just don’t be able to scrape up the money. I have no family to help me because I was kicked out of home for being gay. Any financial help would be greatly appteciated. I am $387 short. http://paypal.me/emilygwen
2 August: I still need $135 to pay my rent for the month. Please keep reblogging.
7/19/18: All assistance would be appreciated. Things have been really flipping tricky, and the news I got today has just made it worse. I am struggling to not lose my electricity, doctor, meds, and ability to eat.
7/24/18:
*waves* hello all.
At this moment it’s been a day since there has been any donations. I appreciate the money that has already been sent as it paid for the past due medical bills and trash removal.
I am now focused on getting the electricity paid, that way I don’t have to worry about keeping my food fresh or my pets comfortable by keeping the house at or under 80 degrees.
It is my hope that I can raise the money sooner than later so I can start focusing on raising money to have my broken tooth removed as I had another piece chip off last night after I touched it wrong with the soft tip tooth brush.
Feel free to share this on Facebook as well. While it is not safe for me to do so because of familial issues, it should be fine if other’s do so since it is by my first name.
Thank you all for the help you have provided so far!
If you wonderful people could continue to signal boost this since tumblr doesn’t always show all posts on the dash, so a lot of people never see the first time unless they check the blogs, I would appreciate it.
Pre-Order Buttonfor Tales of Identity: Memories & Reflections due to come out August 1st (or earlier for those who order before, as I will send it as soon as it is completely formatted instead). It cost $1.00.
January: New Year’s Day – While reflecting on the previous night, Jeff gets ready for what might be a date with his best friend.
February: Thought Out Plan – Dale reflects on xer decision to speak with xer parents about xer gender identity.
March: Warm Fire – Cara and Mandy discuss memories from their fifty years together.
April: Rainstorms – Jacob loves the rain, life-changing moments tend to happen on rainy days
May: Artemis’ Gathering – Carol visits a lesbian bar and has a better than expected night
June: Hair Care – Maria decides to do the first thing on her list for transitioning: grow out her hair.
July: Anniversaries – Nathan and Mark exchange gifts and surprise each other for their anniversaries.
August: Encouragement –
Erin gets a compliment and decides to pass the warm feeling on by giving compliments to others.
7/24/18:
I did my errands, got home and took a nap because I wasn’t feeling good. Errands tend to drain me off all energy. I woke up to a phone call from the phone company telling me the bill has bounced and my phone will be shut off in 2 days. So I also looked at the bank account and there are flipping overdraft fees and a return fee. Apparently I was 10 cents short. Rather than just pay it and charge me the fee, they paid the part that was there, charged me the fee, and the bounced it back. So my simple $120 bill (I was behind, this was supposed to catch it up) is now $210.
As someone with problems standing, I need to have a phone for safety reasons. As I help care for my ma who had a stroke, I need to have a phone so if something happens to her she can let me know (she lives next door).
I hate to have to ask, but can everyone re-boost this and if you have anything at all you can donate, please, please, please do.
At this moment, there isn’t a lot to update on. I got paid for last months errands, money that was supposed to go towards the internet but is being used for the phone instead. I still need to come up with $140. I’ve spent most the day sleeping with a migraine, as the one from yesterday hasn’t quite faded.
I hope everyone is having a decent day.
Most recent update 7/26/18
*waves tiredly* Hellos all, After spending yet another day sleeping, my migraine is fully gone and I am more awake then I have been since it started. I ended up using the trash bill money for the phone, so I am back to trying to get the money together for the trash removal and electrical bill.
Any an all help, particularly sharing with people, is vastly appreciated. It means more than words can express what you wonderful people have already done.
I hope your day is smooth,
Jaimi
7/27/18
Evening Folks
I hope this finds you all doing well.
I did some errands this morning, paid the medical bill in person, picked up a little food for the house, and am exhausted again.
There hasn’t been any activity on here in the last two days, however I have had a few books pre-ordered, though nowhere near enough for the bills.
If you can, I would appreciate it if you wonderful folks could share this with others.
More than 74 people have lost their life following the deadly fires in Eastern Attica on Monday night. Here’s a list of ways you can help as well as charities on the ground, providing help to the thousands of displaced families.
we all know hypothetically about the horrors
of living in trumps america. we’ve all seen the same stories, we know how
dangerous it is to be brown, that your whole life can fall down in an instant. we
know this. I thought I knew this more than most, with my boyfriend being mexican.
in the back of my mind I’ve had this anxiety for months, knowing what could
happen – and today it did.
we were stopped by what looked to be a
cop car in what I thought was an ordinary police stop (scary enough already)
but it turned out to be anything but. behind the car were three black vehicles with tinted windows, literally
like you see in the movies. me and my boyfriend are both fresh out of teenager years,
and there was just two of us against several armed government officers.
this was literally the single most terrifying experience of my life. they told
us to put our hands up and all I could think was that they’re gonna tell him to
step out of the car, they’re gonna kill him in front of me, and I’m gonna have
to call his family and tell them that I saw their son die and that he’s never
coming home.
they laughed in my boyfriend’s face, asking several times for his name and
jiggling the door handle and held us for what felt, to me, like a small and
hellish eternity. I’m sure most people can understand what a traffic stop can
be like as a brown person in america – i feel like i don’t need to say much
more here and honestly just trying to describe everything that happens makes me
want to throw up so I’m not going to.
eventually they let us go and somehow it only gets worse from there.
we found out that my boyfriend’s father had been picked up by ICE. we believe
at present that the point of the stop was to stop me and my boyfriend from
driving past the daycare down the road (where his father was dropping off his 3
yr old son at) so that we wouldn’t be able to see what they were doing to his
dad. the fact that they know our schedules so well means they must have been
following us and watching us for a while. i would say that i’m paranoid except
that honestly, this is entirely justified.
currently, his dad is being held by ICE. because it’s immigration court, not
criminal court, he is not entitled to free legal representation. we need at
least $5000 for lawyer, not even including the bond. my boyfriend and I both
work but there is no way for us to be able to raise this kind of money on such
short notice. my boyfriend is basically in shock right now, as I think is very
reasonable, and this entire situation feels beyond hopeless. the only chance we
have of keeping his family together is through this lawyer, and through asking
for help from others.
i know you are all tired from everything you see on the news. i know that there
are many stories like ours. but please, this is ours. this is the man I love. this
is his father. this is our future together. I never thought this would actually
happen and it honestly still feels like a surreal nightmare but it has
happened, and we cannot get out of it ourselves.
you can donate to our paypal here. every penny helps and if you can’t donate i completely understand, just please please share this post.
OTW Legal and our allies have been active in fighting on fan-unfriendly legal proposals in the EU. Since these proposals were introduced in 2016, OTW Legal has submitted comments opposing them and has joined in calls for action against them. We’ve managed to hold them off so far and encourage some revisions, but a key vote will be happening in the European Parliament’s JURI committee on 20/21 June that could have a significant impact on the Internet and fan sites. In particular, two provisions of the current proposal would be bad for fans. Article 11 would impose a “link tax” that would make it more expensive for many websites to operate, and Article 13 would impose mandatory content-filtering requirements on websites that host user-generated content. These provisions have been hotly debated and revised a bit since the last time we reported on them. (For more on recent revisions and debates, see these discussions by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hogan Lovells Firm) But despite revisions, they’re still bad deals for fans. Importantly, they don’t preserve the “safe harbors” that websites rely on to operate, and they don’t include user-generated content exceptions.
Without safeguards for user-generated content, Article 13 would require your favourite websites to implement systems that monitor user-generated content and automatically remove any content that could potentially infringe upon copyright, giving publishing giants the power to block your online expression. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, GitHub, Soundcloud, etc., could be required to block the upload of content based on whether it has been “identified” by big corporations, rather than based on its legality. The law is still being debated, and it is difficult to predict how it would impact the OTW’s projects, including the Archive of Our Own, if it is passed. Regardless of how this vote comes out, the OTW will work as hard as we can to keep the Internet fan-friendly. But we need your help. The most effective thing you can do right now is contact your Member of European Parliament. You can use one of these tools to e-mail your MEP or call your MEP to tell them that having user-generated content on the internet is important to you.
Here’s what you can tell them: Without safe harbors for user-generated content, Article 13 of the Copyright Directive would stifle free expression on the Internet. We don’t want mandatory filtering. Algorithms don’t understand limitations and exceptions to copyright like parody, public interest exceptions, fair use, or fair dealing, and we don’t want our non-infringing videos, website posts and art blocked because of a biased algorithm created by big corporations. We want the law to protect user-generated works, not harm them.
OTW Legal will keep fighting for fan-friendly laws!
Please signal boost if you can’t help directly!
If any of my followers are in Europe, please help protect the AO3 (and other fannish archives as well)!
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