please help two trans men from going homeless

i never expected things to come to this, but my boyfriend, @bitterwort and i have hit quite the road bump. we’re really struggling, unfortunately, for housing and food. as the summer school semester comes to a close, our summer housing is kicking us out and we’re basically homeless for two weeks until the fall semester begins and housing opens up. we would both go home to our families, but they’re two (my family) and six (my boyfriend’s family) hours away from our college campus, and they’re also highly emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive. we also both have jobs that require our permanent residence in our college town. we’ve run out of food stamps this month which we split among each other, can barely afford to pay for gas to and from work, i haven’t even started my new job yet, need to pay our invoice for a storage unit, need to pay to use a washer and dryer, and my car is in the shop right now and i’m expected to pay the mechanic $100 dollars for reinstalling the car’s belt. my boyfriend has an emotional support cat, and we’re also struggling to keep her fed and happy alongside us. 

i’m swallowing my pride here, it’s embarrassing, and i would never ask if it weren’t serious. if you could help out with a few dollars or even just reblog this so we can breathe and know we can eat for the evening, maybe even snag a cheap hotel until we can find someone to take us in for the two weeks. anything and everything helps thank you.

paypal.me/masonb98

cash.me/$masonb98

venmo.com/boykinmason 

so guess who’s about to be homeless

In yet another in a long string of failures, I’ve been fired from my job (for basically nothing but doing a few things incorrectly) and in less than a week I’m going to be on the street. My sister Pride has put up with my horrendous luck until now, but I have until the 1st (this Saturday) to either come up with the $1600 I owe her or find a new place. With no job, I will be on the street.

Let me be perfectly clear. There is no way in hell I can survive this. I can’t go back to the homeless shelter- I’ve been there before, for just one night, and I still have nightmares about it. With my mental illness, it’d be only a matter of time before I killed myself, and I have no intentions of letting things get worse than they already are. My only choice at this point is to beg anybody who sees this for some help, and just hope against hope that there’s a vein of generosity I haven’t mined out already. I’m beyond desperate at this point. I am literally talking about life and death, here.

Please, if you can spare anything, my CashApp is cash.me/$cassitastrophe I’ve also made a Gofundme, https://www.gofundme.com/help-cassidy-not-become-homeless (CashApp is much better since Gofundme is gonna take at least a couple of days to confirm my bank account link) If you don’t have anything to spare, even just a signal boost would be great. Please. I hate asking people for things, hate that it’s necessary, but without help I’ll never survive.

update: i’m going to the hospital tonight. the death wish is strong. after that, won’t have anything at all set up. i raised almost $200, which i really have to thank you all for, it was amazing, but I lost out on the only place I could afford because someone had rented the room maybe 10 minutes before i got there. everything else in the area is out of my price range, and I still don’t have a new job anyway. no clue what’s going to happen after this or where i’m even going to end up. not even sure if my laptop’s going to still work when i’m out, the hinges are all fucked up and it’s literally falling apart. in short, shit is bad. donations would still be helpful, and signal boosts appreciated, if there’s anyone left out there who can help.

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Literally the two most beautiful living creatures to ever walk the face of the earth.

god is a Black woman 🗣🗣

📸: markus.effin.prime

David Wojnarowicz at ACT UP’s FDA Action protest, 11 October 1988

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Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar, Angelica Ross, and Mj Rodriguez photographed by Nigel Shafran, Vogue Magazine June 2018

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Rafiki (2018) | dir. Wanuri Kahiu

Janelle Monáe photographed by Smallz + Raskind

HOLY SHIT. This is the most vulnerable I’ve felt in I don’t know how long. This film is the culmination of everything I stand for. Everything I’ve been working towards for the last 8 years of posting on social media and creating representation for fat people. I’m scared as hell to post this because as we know I still have a long ways to go when it comes to loving my face and it’s really hard for me to watch myself speak and relinquish control over how I’m portrayed especially after all the horrifying experiences I’ve had with being on TV in the past in Europe. I was asked to be on a show I grew up watching in Germany and they said they were doing a segment on body image and body positivity and when it aired they’d changed it to a segment of how to make money as a social media influencer, they cut out 85% of what I said about body positivity and then they sold the segment to a show called 10 freakiest bodies where my body was portrayed as a freak show. So needless to say I was nervous when I agreed to be a part of this but the urge to represent us fat women was stronger than my fear to yet again be exploited. And let me just tell you I’m crying as I’m typing this because I’m so happy how this film turned out and I’m so honored to be among all the absolutely badass people in this film! Link to watch ( http://grrrlfilm.com/ )

If enough people watch the movie, it goes on Netflix so please watch & share!! It would mean the world to me! https://www.instagram.com/beautyisthebeastfilm

Photograph from the series ‘Fault Line: a portrait of East Austin’ by John Langmore (2008)