please help an undocumented immigrant lesbian leave the US safely 💖
hello friends and followers, i know i have barely been around this year and i hate popping up to ask for money, but i have been figuring out how to leave the US after i decided i couldn't stick around when ICE started showing up on my street in new york late last year. it's been really tough to decide to leave a place i have loved so much, where i dreamed to live my whole life, where my best friend and our kitty cat live (one of my two beloved kitty cats), but the US's war on immigration has shaped basically every aspect of my life through hostile terror tactics for more than a decade and i can no longer live in fear of the state.
i have lived in the city for eight years and in the US for twelve, have uprooted my entire life twice at ages 19 and 24 (both with the help of tumblr, my only consistent safety net since i first joined in 2011), without any family or support networks due to being rejected by my homophobic parents and sisters who are jehovah's witnesses, and by being unable to access even the most basic welfare due to not being a citizen. it has been really, really difficult to learn to be an adult ages 19-32 basically without any human rights. i'm so ready to go back home and start again in a place where i count as a person.
currently my best friend is driving me across the US and helping cover the costs of the trip, with the rest being funded by the sales of all of the stuff i had in brooklyn, but that little nest egg is almost gone. i have nothing to my name anymore but my cat and what fit in the back of a car.
i would really appreciate help covering my expenses for the next two months while i 1. cross the border and 2. figure out where to go from there. i can't wait to come back and talk about anime and post my art and work on commissions and book covers again. the future is bright if we let it. gracias :-)
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