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Mia Martinez is a Muslim Afro-Latina trans woman being held at the Elgin Mental Health Center (EMHC) for the past 24 years. In 1993, at the age of 17, a judge f
“Mia Martinez is a Muslim Afro-Latina trans woman being held at the Elgin Mental Health Center (EMHC) for the past 24 years. In 1993, at the age of 17, a judge found her “not guilty by reason of insanity” for an act of survival as a young trans girl. Having known herself to be female at a very young age, Mia’s feminine gender expression and identity caused her father confusion and anger which he expressed through severe physical and psychological abuse. This abuse was continuous to which her mother and sister witnessed, being unwilling as well as unable to help her.
Despite her circumstances, Mia has begun to move forward. While at EMHC, she studied and received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her passion is to work for and help trans youth who are facing interpersonal violence. Mia has a desire to be able to provide the necessary resources and counseling services for trans youth in Chicago. But she needs our help to get out.
On November 15, 2017 Mia is scheduled for a hearing that could potentially allow her to leave EMHC and reintegrate into society here in Chicago. This would be the opportunity for Mia to be able to fulfill her dreams to provide support and care for trans youth in Chicago. We are fundraising $3,000 for her legal fees in to be able to pay her attorney for representation on this day. Anything else raised beyond this would be given to Mia as funds to reintergrate into society.
Masjid al-Rabia is an organization in Chicago that works to provide religious and spiritual support for Muslims who are marginalized in the greater Ummah (Muslim community). We support all incarcerated queer and trans Muslims through our Black and Pink Crescent program, which is a chapter of Black and Pink serving in Chicago. We currently have over 435 queer and trans Muslims who have contacted our organization for support and spiritual care. In our community we believe in fighting for justice and support for all Muslims. This is why we support and are fundraising for Mia Martinez, a member of our mosque community.“
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hi guys, sorry to be so informal, but as of monday (10/16/17), i woke up in my mom’s arms for the last time to find that she had passed. i am suicidal. i am not eating. i am not taking care of myself. i cannot work as my internet has been shut off and as of now i am writing and posting from my phone.
i have no living relatives and i have never been without my mom or her guidance and i am not coping well with this.
financially, her SSI helped get the bills (mostly) paid and my cam work and art helped take care of the rest. the only support i currently have is the moral support of three unrelated friends in real life. i’m already clinically depressed, bi-polar, i have intermittent explosive disorder, i have chronic PCOS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and more.
i’m trying to make it through this and carry on, for her. i need help. please. just a single dollar or even change would be helpful as of right now. i’m currently due $75 to internet, past due on water $54 (likely breaking my payment arrangement), and in terms of a memorial, $4,290 and after the state helps with $2,395 i’m left with $1,895 to pay out of pocket.
i’m truly grateful for anyone who even reads this, much less to anyone who donates. this is the hardest thing i have ever done and the most pain i have ever endured.
please boost this if you can, i still REALLY need help and i’m already starting to recieve november bills and i’m honestly having a huge, extremely long panic attack that i can’t escape.
UPDATE! STILL NEED HELP DESPERATELY!!
i got the internet taken care of, it’s expected to be on by friday, nov 3rd. i’m working out my water situation, but i still don’t have the funds to have my mom cremated and get her back home to me.
i haven’t been eating to keep what little i have in my pocket to save for that purpose, and november bills have already started arriving. i’m drowning in anxiety and worry. my body is starting to really show the side effects of not eating. i’m scared, desperate, very alone, and trying to stay alive and keep pushing.
i have put in applications for work at several places within walking distance but i haven’t heard anything back yet. please pray that i get a call back!
PLEASE, IF YOU CAN, HELP! I’m grateful for every cent!!
PLEASE BOOST!! my internet has still not been set back up and i am almost entirely out of data on my phone, idek how i’m gonna pay my phone bill at this point.
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