The Sylvia Rivera Law Project Needs Our Help
http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=38166/23/11
by Quinnae Moongazer
Times are very hard, to be sure, and as I am now working in the fundraising department of a radical transgender rights oriented organisation I'm seeing yet another dimension to the endless Great Recession unfolding before me. Simultaneously, what I am constantly astonished by is how we, in some of the most economically disadvantaged communities, always manage to find a penny here and a penny there to help their sisters, brothers, and siblings in need. We're out there looking out for each other and that never fails to give me hope.
It sounds a tad bit cheesy, yes, but for all of my snarky sarcasm and the like, I've always put a lot of stock in that gift from Pandora's Box. It's a precious resource in the trans community. So, what am I waxing all poetic about and what not? Well, I'm trying to fundraise for a charity near and dear to my heart– so much so that I'm actually working for them. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a legal aid organisation for low income trans people of colour, has radical aims that dovetail with the themes I often speak of on my blog and Questioning Transphobia. My work for them is a pretty big part of why I've been a tadbit too busy to write these days. But it is the Goddess's work and it feels decidedly good.
