FASHION TRANSFORMATION FUND
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Dear Reader,
Hello I’m Fashion. I’m a trans woman living in NYC. I’m having a series of upcoming gender affirming surgeries, and I’m looking for assistance with the associated costs when I am unable to use my body to work. I’m a survival sex worker who actually isn’t so psychologically apt for that kind of work (for a myriad of reasons.) & I have no safety net or familial support.
I have been transitioning for 9 years on my own which often has averted me from accessing resources and opportunities to better my life. For example, I was unable to attend college for years because I was a “dependent” student who wasn’t supported by my parents as a person. The only way as a teenager I could access health insurance in order to have hormones was if I remained in the books of literal poverty. If I made over a certain amount of money I would disqualify from the insurance. In retrospect hormones obviously were a necessity that improved my mental health, my capability doing sex work, and my ability to make more money. I had “normal jobs” where I experienced rampant transphobic discrimination, sexual harassment, racism, and many more things that damaged my self worth. I was scarred from that kind of work. There was no guidance, no healthy coping mechanisms, and no clear framework for how I was to navigate survival that I understood or could access as a naive, transient, transgender youth.
Recently, I have had a string of traumatic experiences that have pushed me to seek out these surgeries to ensure my safety/ mental health/ survival. I want to further align my body with my self-idealized gender presentation and mitigate more of my deeply inhibiting gender dysphoria. Being trans is extremely expensive and often inaccessible. This is why I’m asking for help.
I know that by prioritizing my own needs I will be able to continue to help uplift and elevate many other people around me.
I am concerned with building community, supporting other people like me with less privilege, access, and mobility. I want to liberate others from the confines of their minds and the social constructs that hold us hostage to systems of constraint and oppression. I want to continue to honor the legacy of those who have paved the way for girls like me, and continue to pave the way for those to come. However, I will admit it is actually very difficult to do so when I sometimes am unable to help myself!
I chose the latest iteration of my name -Fashion- not to commemorate the materiality of clothing, or the legacy of exclusivity/ exclusion of a highly decadent and capitalistic world, but because the verb/ active form of Fashion means “to style”. Although life is difficult and trying, I hope to style a better future for myself and continue to contribute to the fashioning of our global consciousness.
Thank you so much for reading and if you decide to help me in any form- monetarily, socially, spiritually, energetically. I appreciate sincerity period
XX
Much love,
Fashion
Hello I’m Fashion. I’m a trans woman living in NYC. I’m having a series of upcoming gender affirming surgeries, and I’m looking for assistance with the associated costs when I am unable to use my body to work. I’m a survival sex worker who actually isn’t so psychologically apt for that kind of work (for a myriad of reasons.) & I have no safety net or familial support.
I have been transitioning for 9 years on my own which often has averted me from accessing resources and opportunities to better my life. For example, I was unable to attend college for years because I was a “dependent” student who wasn’t supported by my parents as a person. The only way as a teenager I could access health insurance in order to have hormones was if I remained in the books of literal poverty. If I made over a certain amount of money I would disqualify from the insurance. In retrospect hormones obviously were a necessity that improved my mental health, my capability doing sex work, and my ability to make more money. I had “normal jobs” where I experienced rampant transphobic discrimination, sexual harassment, racism, and many more things that damaged my self worth. I was scarred from that kind of work. There was no guidance, no healthy coping mechanisms, and no clear framework for how I was to navigate survival that I understood or could access as a naive, transient, transgender youth.
Recently, I have had a string of traumatic experiences that have pushed me to seek out these surgeries to ensure my safety/ mental health/ survival. I want to further align my body with my self-idealized gender presentation and mitigate more of my deeply inhibiting gender dysphoria. Being trans is extremely expensive and often inaccessible. This is why I’m asking for help.
I know that by prioritizing my own needs I will be able to continue to help uplift and elevate many other people around me.
I am concerned with building community, supporting other people like me with less privilege, access, and mobility. I want to liberate others from the confines of their minds and the social constructs that hold us hostage to systems of constraint and oppression. I want to continue to honor the legacy of those who have paved the way for girls like me, and continue to pave the way for those to come. However, I will admit it is actually very difficult to do so when I sometimes am unable to help myself!
I chose the latest iteration of my name -Fashion- not to commemorate the materiality of clothing, or the legacy of exclusivity/ exclusion of a highly decadent and capitalistic world, but because the verb/ active form of Fashion means “to style”. Although life is difficult and trying, I hope to style a better future for myself and continue to contribute to the fashioning of our global consciousness.
Thank you so much for reading and if you decide to help me in any form- monetarily, socially, spiritually, energetically. I appreciate sincerity period
XX
Much love,
Fashion
Organizer
Fashion Poon
Organizer
New York, NY
