Support for a Wildly Generous Beloved Trouble-Maker

Friends,

My friend and teacher has thousands of dollars in uncovered medical bills, is losing their healthcare coverage in the coming months and will have to pay thousands more for treatment and meds over the rest of the year. Please join me in pulling together some funds for someone whose work in resistance movements has been shaping my thinking for over 20 years.

This person has dedicated their entire life to community work--local organizing, political education projects, holding it down in the streets, community support for people in crisis, and mentorship for people finding their paths. They've done their work for free and gotten by pulling together odd jobs ranging from driving to translation to sex work, choosing to live inexpensively to keep their time dedicated to resistance work.

It would not be possible for me to express my gratitude for this person's contributions, or how much they have shaped everything I have done. Now they are dealing with cancer and at the same time a long process of dental surgery to stop ongoing tooth loss from two and a half decades without dental coverage, while also helping care for a partner with chronic illness.

They recently lost their job, have to pay rising rent in a moldy building, and may have to move. They need a car to be able to secure a new job and make it to medical appointments, and they have more medical bills coming. Please help me offer some care to this person right now, who has cared for so many, with such immense dedication to liberation for all.