Disabled TWOC’s livelihood taken by police, help!

Hello friends and community. I am a filipinx transfemme born into poverty, second- (my father) and third- (my grandmother) generation immigrant, as well as an adoptee with no traditional family support structure (estranged as a teenager from my working-class rural white adopted “parents”) who is under constant attack by the state and systemic structures built up in this world.

 

I am once again in a position where I need to reach out for some material help. My physical and mental health have been in sharp decline this year, and I have barely been able to keep my head above water. It is a daily struggle figuring out how to eat, how to shower, or maintain housing.

 

Thursday night my vehicle, which represents not only transportation/mobility for my declining health, but also is vital to my only source of income, and sometimes acts as emergency housing was impounded by the police while I was out working. It was quite traumatic, and triggering of past occurences involving police and violence.

 

They pulled me over for an out headlight, four large aggressive white male police pulling me out of the vehicle and detaining me while they spent over an hour at 1am tearing my car apart trying to find a reason to fuck with me, then left me stranded in an unfamiliar town 20miles from home in the middle of the night. They took my phone and said a bunch of really disgusting stuff, but luckily I wasnt physically assaulted as much as in past interactions with the police. I was out working and had not done any traffic or other violations, but as soon as the officers saw me and the sketchy falling-apart minivan they decided to target me.

 

 

Though I’ve been working 30+ hours/week for months in the only job I’ve been able to maintain in my adult life without breaking myself or feeling massively exploited, with the cost of living here, I have not been able to save any $$ for instances like this. I’ve been trying harder than ever, but just keep getting kicked while I’m down over and over. I was in a really vicious car accident this summer involving another large violent white man who threw me out of my moving vehicle, and have just been beginning to recover my health and sanity, but unable to reach very far toward stability.

 

Further, the vehicle is falling apart, despite my attempts & putting over half of my income weekly to maintain it functioning, and I have been stuck for over half a year in a sort of limbo/rat-race with it somehow only getting 10mpg (old and broken) but being the only option/necessary tool in my possession to continue working.

 

In an ideal continuance of this reality, this gofundme would raise:

 

-The impound fees to retrieve the van early next week and pass it on to two other tgirls who are waiting to recieve and use it as their main housing for spring, into summer.

 

-Whatever associated fines/legal fees in order to clear my license and allow me to safely continue working/living.

 

-The downpayment/ a gift/cosigner for a more gas efficient & less conspicuous vehicle that would immediately allow me to save an extra $2-300/week on gas alone, allowing me to get out of the stagnant material situation I have landed in this year, as well as hopefully reduce the targetting/profiling I recieve from LEO’s itching to fuck with non-white non-normative folks.

 

 

This is the third vehicle taken from me this year, only one of which being remotely a result of my own actions.

If I had either of my smaller vehicles - one violently stolen, the other impounded while a friend was supposed to be taking care of it, (which I didn’t find out until months later) - I would not be in such dire financial straits. In a full day of work, I often have to spend $60-80 in gas, which is only going up - nearly $6/gallon in many places nearby. It costs me $1 every 2 miles driven. I have been looking for other work/sources of income, but this is the only thing I’ve found that I can currently do with respect to my mental and physical health without breaking myself.

If I can get some help now, this is the perfect time to switch to some small gas efficient thing, with which I would be able to begin immediately saving money, building security/stability, and stop living right on the edge of survival.

 

Please help a young trans woman be able to support herself and her loved ones.

 

Without a vehicle I can’t

•eat

•pay rent, phone, utility bills

•recieve needed medical care

•function, continue living healthfully

•create a safety net for myself and loved ones, etc etc.

 

 

You can send help through this gfm, or directly to us through any of the apps. ven/$app :: @/$bbreakme (-7098), pp :: @sugi666

 

Thank you, and be well<3

-s