Urgent Disabled Trans American Safety Fund
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This is a plea to anyone to help the midwestern activist Ezra to afford funding for housing in the Netherlands. He suffers with four separate chronic illnesses and a shoulder injury that requires major surgery with pins annd screws to fix while also in an unsafe environment that is dire for him to get out of, and cannot stay for long term. Ezra spends most of his free time advocating, educating, and organizing protest around the Midwest to spread awareness of the transgender community by leading peaceful protests and sharing his love for music, spoken word poetry, and drag performances. His car recently broke down and that’s what he used for work as he delivered food even on days he has none and always meets strangers with kindness, and a smile. He’s been been featured in two books and got to speak with the mayor in 2022 on his journey to intact change to the struggle within his local and global communities.
Ezra seeks to leave the us for human rights violations and needs Gender and name change, passports, Travel, visas, and eventually a small business in order to have dual Citizenship in the Netherlands on a DAFT Visa (Dutch American Friendship Treaty) or workers visa. In order to do so he has to own and run a small business to qualify. Ezra hopes to appeal to you today that you keep in mind, treasure, and care for transgender individuals as human beings and wants you to know if you’re unable to help him, find another to help. His community is in a crisis around the world and he promises to pay everything he is blessed with forward through working to help all minorities in all places through his loud activism and artistry. His only will is to be able to continue to do so in a safer and more accepting place. Together we can fight transphobia everywhere and anything at all helps. Thank you so much for your time reading Ezra’s story and for your donations, it is life saving!
Ezra’s Story:
Ezra came out as trans just several months before George Floyd was murdered. Already feeling alone scared and isolated in a new and unsafe environment, with unstable housing and in that loneliness he sought out justice for his community. His first ever protest he attended he wore only pasties with a sign that read “A Black Trans Women’s Life expectancy is 35 due to hate and murder.” And in doing so that projected his activist career as someone had the audacity to hand a shirtless black trans man a microphone and dared to hear his voice and ask about his story.
Ezra’s Community Accomplishments:
Since then he has volunteered and dedicated his voice, talent, and artistry in the last 4 years of his life Representing his community As a proud black gay trans man since coming out late 2018 to activism and advocacy for black trans rights, women’s rights, and children’s rights and protections, by sharing his story and educating thousands in organizing and leading peaceful protests and community events through his Public speaking, Spoken word poetry, music and lyricism, writing, performing Drag/Burlesque Dancing and artistry. Leading the first ever Black Trans Lives Matter protest in Downtown Peoria. He held the first ever BLM protest in the infamously known sundown town of Pekin Illinois in its history. He helps organize and attends annual SLUTWALK which is a protest of rape culture and hate crimes, gathering Survivors and resources of sexual assault in solidarity as we read allowed the and share their stories in solace. He speaks every year on Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDR) in the Peoria presbyterian Church to inform and console religious members and youth and appeal and condone Transgender Violence and laws that violate human rights protections. He has fought Transphobia in school board districts and for racial justice most notably winning the fight for police reform in helping to permanently create laws that require policeman to where body cams and turn in all footage immediately.
He volunteers his time working in and with organizations such as Peoria for Black Liberation, Peoria Guild of black artists, ACLU, NAACP Pflag, and Harm Reduction organizations, and planned parenthood. He has been hired to write songs and poetry for government candidates and even performed for the mayor in 2022. His poetry, writing and public speaking have been featured around a half dozen times as well as featured in Two Books About the Modern Black American Exprience called “The Black Book” as well as “Working Guys: A Transmasculine Anthology”. As a modern day possible influence for people all backgrounds and ages.
The city he lives has been voted for three consecutive years as the worst city for black people to live in the entirety of United States and yet as he understands and struggles with this daily, he still gives everything to the community he helped build through the years such as making support groups, aid kits, and resources readily available for transgender people as he openly shares his journey all around the Midwest.
Ezra’s last chronic illness diagnoses was EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) following fibromyalgia, ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) And RSD/CRPS (chronic regional pain syndrome). Despite these disabilities he aspires to continue to exist and advocate for human rights wherever he goes. This man who has donated years helping people has been in need of serious help for sometime now as he plans to move as fast as possible out of the United States to preserve the rights he fights daily for.
He plans to get a small business visa and start a nonprofit organization and freelance Writing and artistry to help other American transgender refugees move out of the united states and provide them with care and housing that they need as he needs the same. This is a plea to anyone to help Ezra Afford funding for gender and name change, passports, Travel, visas, and eventually a small business in order to have dual Citizenship in the Netherlands on a DAFT Visa (Dutch American Friendship Treaty) or workers visa. In order to do so he has to own and run a small business to qualify. Ezra hopes to appeal to you today that you keep in mind, treasure and care for transgender individuals as human beings and wants you to know if you’re unable to help him, find another to help. His community is in a crisis around the world and he promises to pay everything he is blessed with forward through working to help all minorities in all places through his loud activism and artistry. His only will is to be able to continue to do so in a safer and more accepting place. Together we can fight transphobia everywhere and anything at all helps. Thank you so much for your time reading Ezra’s story and for your donations, it is life saving!
Ezra’s Story:
Ezra came out as trans just several months before George Floyd was murdered. Already feeling alone scared and isolated in a new and unsafe environment, with unstable housing and in that loneliness he sought out justice for his community. His first ever protest he attended he wore only pasties with a sign that read “A Black Trans Women’s Life expectancy is 35 due to hate and murder.” And in doing so that projected his activist career as someone had the audacity to hand a shirtless black trans man a microphone and dared to hear his voice and ask about his story.
Ezra’s Community Accomplishments:
Since then he has volunteered and dedicated his voice, talent, and artistry in the last 4 years of his life Representing his community As a proud black gay trans man since coming out late 2018 to activism and advocacy for black trans rights, women’s rights, and children’s rights and protections, by sharing his story and educating thousands in organizing and leading peaceful protests and community events through his Public speaking, Spoken word poetry, music and lyricism, writing, performing Drag/Burlesque Dancing and artistry. Leading the first ever Black Trans Lives Matter protest in Downtown Peoria. He held the first ever BLM protest in the infamously known sundown town of Pekin Illinois in its history. He helps organize and attends annual SLUTWALK which is a protest of rape culture and hate crimes, gathering Survivors and resources of sexual assault in solidarity as we read allowed the and share their stories in solace. He speaks every year on Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDR) in the Peoria presbyterian Church to inform and console religious members and youth and appeal and condone Transgender Violence and laws that violate human rights protections. He has fought Transphobia in school board districts and for racial justice most notably winning the fight for police reform in helping to permanently create laws that require policeman to where body cams and turn in all footage immediately.
He volunteers his time working in and with organizations such as Peoria for Black Liberation, Peoria Guild of black artists, ACLU, NAACP Pflag, and Harm Reduction organizations, and planned parenthood. He has been hired to write songs and poetry for government candidates and even performed for the mayor in 2022. His poetry, writing and public speaking have been featured around a half dozen times as well as featured in Two Books About the Modern Black American Exprience called “The Black Book” as well as “Working Guys: A Transmasculine Anthology”. As a modern day possible influence for people all backgrounds and ages.
The city he lives has been voted for three consecutive years as the worst city for black people to live in the entirety of United States and yet as he understands and struggles with this daily, he still gives everything to the community he helped build through the years such as making support groups, aid kits, and resources readily available for transgender people as he openly shares his journey all around the Midwest.
Ezra’s last chronic illness diagnoses was EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) following fibromyalgia, ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) And RSD/CRPS (chronic regional pain syndrome). Despite these disabilities he aspires to continue to exist and advocate for human rights wherever he goes. This man who has donated years helping people has been in need of serious help for sometime now as he plans to move as fast as possible out of the United States to preserve the rights he fights daily for.
He plans to get a small business visa and start a nonprofit organization and freelance Writing and artistry to help other American transgender refugees move out of the united states and provide them with care and housing that they need as he needs the same. This is a plea to anyone to help Ezra Afford funding for gender and name change, passports, Travel, visas, and eventually a small business in order to have dual Citizenship in the Netherlands on a DAFT Visa (Dutch American Friendship Treaty) or workers visa. In order to do so he has to own and run a small business to qualify. Ezra hopes to appeal to you today that you keep in mind, treasure and care for transgender individuals as human beings and wants you to know if you’re unable to help him, find another to help. His community is in a crisis around the world and he promises to pay everything he is blessed with forward through working to help all minorities in all places through his loud activism and artistry. His only will is to be able to continue to do so in a safer and more accepting place. Together we can fight transphobia everywhere and anything at all helps. Thank you so much for your time reading Ezra’s story and for your donations, it is life saving!
Organizer
Luna Moon
Organizer
Peoria, IL