turning toward the sun

This blog will be updated once I have left.

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I’m out and safe. Thank you, everyone.

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For everyone asking — I will update this blog when I have left. At the moment, I am slowly moving my belongings, collecting important documents when I can, and settling a new living situation, the last of which I wouldn’t have been able to do without you. I hope to leave the country within a year’s time. Thank you for thinking of me.

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Update: Thank you so much for your help. I have as much as I will ever need. Please don’t send me any more donations. Thank you. I am so grateful.

I am making this plea anonymously because my online identity is tied to my real life in significant ways.

I am a black lesbian who has lived in fear of her violently abusive and homophobic father for over two decades. He has been physically and emotionally violent since my infancy, and he began to sexually abuse me in 2015. He does not know I am a lesbian, and if he finds out, he will not hesitate to kill me. He has attempted to kill me several times over the course of my life, and after a recent attempt, I have realized that I can no longer put off escaping. More details about the abuse I have suffered are available here if needed.

I initially planned to leave in a year’s time to hide away enough money for rent, prepare what I need, and give myself the best chance of a secure and permanent escape – other women who have tried to flee my family have been hunted by my father and his brothers and dragged back. My father forces financial control on me and other members of my family, and so I do not have enough saved. However, my living situation has become imminently dangerous, and so I must dramatically shorten my timeline.

Please help me leave and stay gone. All I want is to live in peace.

paypal.me/turningtowardthesun

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I have as much as I will ever need. Thank you all so much for your generosity and support. Please don’t send me any more donations.

[turningtowardthesun]

I am making this plea anonymously because my online identity is tied to my real life in significant ways.

I am a black lesbian who has lived in fear of her violently abusive and homophobic father for over two decades. He has been physically and emotionally violent since my infancy, and he began to sexually abuse me in 2015. He does not know I am a lesbian, and if he finds out, he will not hesitate to kill me. He has attempted to kill me several times over the course of my life, and after a recent attempt, I have realized that I can no longer put off escaping. More details about the abuse I have suffered are available here if needed.

I initially planned to leave in a year’s time to hide away enough money for rent, prepare what I need, and give myself the best chance of a secure and permanent escape – other women who have tried to flee my family have been hunted by my father and his brothers and dragged back. My father forces financial control on me and other members of my family, and so I do not have enough saved. However, my living situation has become imminently dangerous, and so I must dramatically shorten my timeline.

Please help me leave and stay gone. All I want is to live in peace.

paypal.me/turningtowardthesun

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Thank you so much for your help, everyone. I have enough. Thank you for making this possible for me. I will always be grateful for what you have done for me.

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Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for believing me, and for being so unimaginably kind, generous, and supportive. I am the most hopeful I have ever been in my life. Thank you so much to my friends for listening to me, for being together with me, and for vouching for me. Thank you to everyone that has offered me access to resources, a place in their home, and their sympathy and solidarity. Thank you all so much for this help.

I’m sorry if my responses are slow or few and far between. I am genuinely overwhelmed by the generosity and love I have been shown. I wish all of you every happiness there is in the world.

[turningtowardthesun]

Update: Thank you so much for your help. I have as much as I will ever need. Please don’t send me any more donations. Thank you. I am so grateful.

I am making this plea anonymously because my online identity is tied to my real life in significant ways.

I am a black lesbian who has lived in fear of her violently abusive and homophobic father for over two decades. He has been physically and emotionally violent since my infancy, and he began to sexually abuse me in 2015. He does not know I am a lesbian, and if he finds out, he will not hesitate to kill me. He has attempted to kill me several times over the course of my life, and after a recent attempt, I have realized that I can no longer put off escaping. More details about the abuse I have suffered are available here if needed.

I initially planned to leave in a year’s time to hide away enough money for rent, prepare what I need, and give myself the best chance of a secure and permanent escape – other women who have tried to flee my family have been hunted by my father and his brothers and dragged back. My father forces financial control on me and other members of my family, and so I do not have enough saved. However, my living situation has become imminently dangerous, and so I must dramatically shorten my timeline.

Please help me leave and stay gone. All I want is to live in peace.

paypal.me/turningtowardthesun