Hellooooo yall
I wanted to remake my dono post bc it got bogged down with update reblogs, so
Here we go
Hai
My name is Vera
I am a homeless transfem living in a homeless shelter in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
I'd like to say off the bat that a lot has changed while also
Not really having changed
Things are still dire, but I've generally acclimated to this shelter.
The issue is that it is still a massively Christian privately owned men only shelter that I have to lay relatively low in.
I have friends who know who I am, and have formed a group of loved ones that I appreciate more than anything.
I had been working within the shelter in the laundry room for long enough to earn my way into staying at the shelter for free, but because I am younger than twenty five I have been excluded from the opportunity and once again need to either work for each individual day that I want to stay here for free or.... Pay $6 per day.
This place is operated off of private church financial support, and thus operates outside of proper homeless shelter regulations and can do whatever it wants to us.
The supervisors and staff treat us like incompetent children at best, but I am surviving.
As I was writing this, it has been made known to me within the shelter that I specifically have been made a target for discrimination and that they are looking for a reason to put me out on the street.
I have a small amount of money to pay for individual days where I do not receive a voucher, but that cuts into the amount that I am able to pay for food.
I've already been losing a lot of weight, and my hair has been coming out in clumps just from running my fingers through it, so I'm prioritizing getting something in my stomach rather than saving individual dollars. (Thank you Arizona Tea for being basically a meal for a dollar)
But yeah...
I'd like to ask for yalls help.
Whatever anyone can spare would go a long way into keeping me in this bullshit game of slow progress...
I do understand that nobody is doing well right now
But on the upside I'm currently in the process of getting a free car (granted, it's my late grandfather's car, offered to me by my transphobic mother and grandmother who are the ones who sold my home out from under me and didn't care when I lost my job, but who's keeping count)
So
All I need to do is make it to when I get that truck, and keep surviving from there.
I'm planning on applying to any jobs that take a proper look at my application, and take specifics from there.
I hope y'all have a great day.
....
......
...please help.
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