Deer Tender Hearted Community Near & Far,
I am asking white settlers // those of you who benefit through white supremacy to raise the $1,500 that my queer indigenous family of healers needs in order to move into the next chapter of our lives. I challenge you to consider what your monetary support is contingent upon--an exchange of some sort? Should we share our guts with you & provide proof we're the "right" kind of indians to invest in? Or can we cut the bullshit & you'll simply choose to financially elevate & celebrate two-spirit DESIRE for happiness, safety, community, & ALL the love?! These are lives that we are not only entitled to, but lives that our lineage promised we could have some day, & we want it. We deserve it now.
There is a power & a magic that reveals itself every time we choose to keep breathing, grieving, & birthing in the midst of a genocide: continuous, targeted attempts to kill us off that have yet to cease. It is from this legacy of power & magic that I choose to believe that you will support us, even if we leave out our broken-always-in-crisis/trauma-mode-thing-that-you-can-fix parts. (tbh, I am still learning how to trust & recognize myself here, too.) & wow am I grateful to not be in that drowning place of unrelenting pain & constant struggle anymore! I come to you, instead, with a FULL heart & spirit made possible only by surrendering to the mercy of the Femmeiverse.
Doing this was no easy feat. It required the care of an amazing queer indigenous time traveling magical being to finally hold all of my previously misunderstood & misnamed pieces while I lovingly put myself back together, using hope as a guiding force. This work is not only healing on a deeply personal level, but absolutely vital in my service of Black & brown femmes. AS WE HEAL OURSELVES WE HEAL EACH OTHER.
As someone who didn't have access to healers of color until very recently, I learned the cost of taking risk after risk of entrusting my spirit to white settlers & white healers, & I am sharing from this very personal experience that this healing work is not for white settlers to do with us. BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) healers know how to care for our communities, & if white settlers really wanna support our healing, I suggest giving us financial resources, redirecting BIPOC clientele back to us, organizing a sustainable way to subsidize costs for these services when necessary, & moving aside so that we can connect with each other. I also highly encourage white settler healers to share your beautiful gifts within your own communities, focusing on those that desperately need your services (i.e., the fucked up white people who are still hurting us!). Isn't this how you truly begin dismantling white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, & settler colonialism?
We all know the magic & power of how communities of color (femmes especially!) show up, throw down & support EVERYONE, & I am asking you to ensure this responsibility doesn't fall to us again. Do your part: contribute what you think our livelihood is worth // what your livelihood is worth, have these convos with your white friends & communities, ask them to do the same, & don't stop.
Thank you so much for your time & energy to read & hold my words // thoughts // feelings, for believing & trusting in us, & for sending your contributions through these cute little button-links!:
I am asking white settlers // those of you who benefit through white supremacy to raise the $1,500 that my queer indigenous family of healers needs in order to move into the next chapter of our lives. I challenge you to consider what your monetary support is contingent upon--an exchange of some sort? Should we share our guts with you & provide proof we're the "right" kind of indians to invest in? Or can we cut the bullshit & you'll simply choose to financially elevate & celebrate two-spirit DESIRE for happiness, safety, community, & ALL the love?! These are lives that we are not only entitled to, but lives that our lineage promised we could have some day, & we want it. We deserve it now.
There is a power & a magic that reveals itself every time we choose to keep breathing, grieving, & birthing in the midst of a genocide: continuous, targeted attempts to kill us off that have yet to cease. It is from this legacy of power & magic that I choose to believe that you will support us, even if we leave out our broken-always-in-crisis/trauma-mode-thing-that-you-can-fix parts. (tbh, I am still learning how to trust & recognize myself here, too.) & wow am I grateful to not be in that drowning place of unrelenting pain & constant struggle anymore! I come to you, instead, with a FULL heart & spirit made possible only by surrendering to the mercy of the Femmeiverse.
Doing this was no easy feat. It required the care of an amazing queer indigenous time traveling magical being to finally hold all of my previously misunderstood & misnamed pieces while I lovingly put myself back together, using hope as a guiding force. This work is not only healing on a deeply personal level, but absolutely vital in my service of Black & brown femmes. AS WE HEAL OURSELVES WE HEAL EACH OTHER.
As someone who didn't have access to healers of color until very recently, I learned the cost of taking risk after risk of entrusting my spirit to white settlers & white healers, & I am sharing from this very personal experience that this healing work is not for white settlers to do with us. BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) healers know how to care for our communities, & if white settlers really wanna support our healing, I suggest giving us financial resources, redirecting BIPOC clientele back to us, organizing a sustainable way to subsidize costs for these services when necessary, & moving aside so that we can connect with each other. I also highly encourage white settler healers to share your beautiful gifts within your own communities, focusing on those that desperately need your services (i.e., the fucked up white people who are still hurting us!). Isn't this how you truly begin dismantling white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, & settler colonialism?
We all know the magic & power of how communities of color (femmes especially!) show up, throw down & support EVERYONE, & I am asking you to ensure this responsibility doesn't fall to us again. Do your part: contribute what you think our livelihood is worth // what your livelihood is worth, have these convos with your white friends & communities, ask them to do the same, & don't stop.
Thank you so much for your time & energy to read & hold my words // thoughts // feelings, for believing & trusting in us, & for sending your contributions through these cute little button-links!:
& to my powerful, soft, vibrant & loving Black, indigenous, & people of color community, thank you for reading! I am really hoping white settlers come through, & if you have the willingness & capacity to support, please know how invaluable it is to share this ask with your networks, tagging your white friends & community members. I hope that this gets reposted to the degree that my goal is exceeded, because I'm planning on redistributing the overflow merrily amongst you!
From my abundant whale heart to yours,
Dacia
***if you need to feed***
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***of how a queer indigenous femme***
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***for the break down of how i'll be using these funds***
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MOVING COSTS:
- $600 MOVING TRUCK RENTAL
- $375 truck
- $225 insurance
- $350 GAS
- $200 FLY MY KIDDO HOME
- $400 1st MONTH'S RENT
- $250 MISC. EXPENSES
- $250 WHALE WATCHING & SOME GODDAMN JOY
MY LIVELIHOOD IS WORTH WHAT AGAIN? ;)
