over the past few days, our community has donated thousands of dollars to the trevor project (via the castiel project) and the national alliance on mental illness (via the dean winchester is love fundraiser). to have two of the best characters in television history meet their demise in such horrific unnecessary ways is a tragedy, but while they didn’t get the happy ending they deserved, cas and dean are still changing people’s lives and inspiring us to be better, to do better.
however, there is one more character that deserved their happy ending…eileen.
eileen was a compassionate woman, a badass hunter, a loyal friend, and an incredible example of why media representation for people with disabilities matters. she expanded the world of supernatural to include the deaf/HOH community as heroes of their own story - heroes that can go toe to toe with the winchesters themselves. as shoshannah stern put it, “I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a deaf person kick ass the way that Eileen does and I’ve certainly never played that before. Deaf or disabled people are usually the victim, not the one who rescues.”
eileen was such an important figure in the show these last few seasons and for her to be left out of the final narrative doesn’t sit right with me, so to honor her (and shoshannah!), i hope you’ll join me in celebrating her spn legacy by donating to the national association of the deaf - the united states’ premiere civil rights organization of, by, and for the deaf/HOH. they use donations to promote ASL and champion the legal rights and interests of the american deaf/HOH community, which i believe that eileen would be all about (especially since shoshannah’s a NAD advocate herself!) unfortunately, there’s no way to set up a goal page for this fundraiser, but if you make a donation you have the option to give money in honor of someone specific, or leave a comment/explanation for your donation. just write that your donation is in honor of shoshannah and her character on supernatural, eileen leahy, then reblog this post to signal boost it and encourage others to help out, too! if you think eileen deserves the world, then let’s help her and others like her change the world.
(special thanks to @heller-jensen and @onlybackfordestiel for their advice and support!)
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