HELP A QUEER, NATIVE, SURVIVOR FIGHT INJUSTICE

Our beloved friend Madz—a fierce, loving, and resilient individual—has been wrongfully arrested and is now facing devastating charges that could take years of her life. We urgently need your help to raise $10,000 to secure her release on bond, and for legal defense so she can fight this entrapment case.

Madz has been relentlessly targeted by the criminal legal system since she was very young, a pattern that reflects the disproportionate policing, wrongful arrests, and mass incarceration that Native people—especially Native femmes-face at alarming rates. She grew up on a reservation and has endured years of systemic oppression, surviving cycles of violence that too often end in stolen futures. Now, the state is trying to take hers.

Madz was wrongfully arrested on her way to Nebraska for an entrapment case that has haunted her since she was very young.

This is not an isolated incident. Native Americans are the most overpoliced and overincarcerated group in the U.S. They face:

• A higher risk of police surveillance, searches, and wrongful arrests

• The highest incarceration rates of any racial group

• Increased targeting through sting operations and entrapment

• A system that criminalizes their very existence instead of protecting them

We refuse to let this system steal our friend’s life. We need to raise $5,000 immediately to post bond and get her out of jail, and another $5,000 at least, to secure legal representation so she can fight these charges and finally break free from this cycle of injustice.

Every dollar, every share, every bit of support matters. This is a fight for her freedom—but it’s also part of a larger fight against the criminalization of Native lives. Please stand with us and help bring Madz home.

Share widely. No one should be stolen by this system.