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Life Update + Top Surgery Fundraiser
a month ago
Hey everyone!
I have not been super active on here for a minute. I'll be honest, I've been having a rough go of it. I came home from AC quite sick and depressed, cold turned to bronchitis and it's been hard feeling better because every day it's either a million degrees out of the air is full of wildfire smoke. On top of that I got some difficult news that my mom might have cancer and I have NOT been taking it well.
I also had my top surgery consultation and found out I'll get to have it this year which is great! Except for the paying for it part. Even with insurance it's a lot of money that I have been trying to fund raise and sell art for and it's a bit demoralizing to be honest! Everyone is broke, everyone has a fundraiser going. Some days it feels like no one with money wants to help anyone who needs it, and everyone who would be willing to help is stuck in the same boat. And of course the government just straight up wants me dead at this point. All of us. I, and a lot of other trans people in the United States, the UK, have a lot of dreams that feel like they have to be put on hold, maybe forever, because it's becoming a battle just to exist as we are in our countries.
So all in all it's been hard to just function on a daily basis, let alone make fun pictures. But I'm still here, I'm still around. I have a lot of things I started that I'm slowly working on. Until then I would like to share some links to where I'm fundraising right now, if anyone is willing and able to help me out.
My Gofundme
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ari.....-government-bs
My physical store with books, prints, some original work
https://toxicmetalexpo.bigcartel.com/products
My instagram account where I am posting a LOT of old art for sale, click the highlight "Story Sale" to see it all
https://www.instagram.com/toxicmetalexpo/
Some of the stuff in the story sale will eventually make it to my store but for now it's so much that I'm holding off a bit on doing that. DM me here or on instagram if there's something you're interested in.
I have not been super active on here for a minute. I'll be honest, I've been having a rough go of it. I came home from AC quite sick and depressed, cold turned to bronchitis and it's been hard feeling better because every day it's either a million degrees out of the air is full of wildfire smoke. On top of that I got some difficult news that my mom might have cancer and I have NOT been taking it well.
I also had my top surgery consultation and found out I'll get to have it this year which is great! Except for the paying for it part. Even with insurance it's a lot of money that I have been trying to fund raise and sell art for and it's a bit demoralizing to be honest! Everyone is broke, everyone has a fundraiser going. Some days it feels like no one with money wants to help anyone who needs it, and everyone who would be willing to help is stuck in the same boat. And of course the government just straight up wants me dead at this point. All of us. I, and a lot of other trans people in the United States, the UK, have a lot of dreams that feel like they have to be put on hold, maybe forever, because it's becoming a battle just to exist as we are in our countries.
So all in all it's been hard to just function on a daily basis, let alone make fun pictures. But I'm still here, I'm still around. I have a lot of things I started that I'm slowly working on. Until then I would like to share some links to where I'm fundraising right now, if anyone is willing and able to help me out.
My Gofundme
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ari.....-government-bs
My physical store with books, prints, some original work
https://toxicmetalexpo.bigcartel.com/products
My instagram account where I am posting a LOT of old art for sale, click the highlight "Story Sale" to see it all
https://www.instagram.com/toxicmetalexpo/
Some of the stuff in the story sale will eventually make it to my store but for now it's so much that I'm holding off a bit on doing that. DM me here or on instagram if there's something you're interested in.
