Hey y’all, I opened up about it on my Twitter, but recently I’ve been at risk of homelessness and have been forced to move back in with my father. There was a reason why I moved out in the first place, the shorthand version of it is that he physically and mentally abused me, threatened me with homelessness, has stolen money from me before, refused to teach me to drive (I had a car at one point that was stolen), put me in a position where I would have to work around his hours where he fluctuates coming home at 3pm to as late as 2am while charging me $300 for rent, told me if I got a job he’d charge me $400 leaving me with no room for upward mobility, and still regularly berates me if he’s not in a good mood.

Things were relatively tame until recently, where there was an incident in which he put me in a chokehold multiple times to which there were physical marks, put a fork to my neck, and recorded himself berating me for 20 minutes while I begged him to leave me alone. I thought things would’ve been different since I left but I was wrong.

My friend has offered me a room with her roommates where I would be charged $400 a month, and has helped me secure a decent job and a means of transportation (I’ve been waiting for job orientation for about a week). I need this money to help me cover rent for the first month, help me afford groceries, get me out of medical debt, and have a small amount in savings in which I can use towards getting a new car or in the event of an emergency. Thank you for reading, literally any bit helps and will go a long way towards me finally being independent and escaping my situation.

-Gwen <3