Pride 2024: Support Sascha's Recovery and New Beginnings

This Pride, I am grateful to be alive at all.

On May 11, a family member beat me across the head with a metal baseball bat that left me with stitches across the front and back of my head, and an eye full of blood. Because of this I have lost a lot of work opportunities and been displaced from my parents' house. I've spent the past few weeks living in motels. Currently I'm taking refuge in my uncle's basement in Staten Island until I get can back on my feet.

This story is not so unusual for queer folx of colour and children of immigrants. The compounded violence and trauma of escaping a war-torn country with a lack of understanding of queerness as a function of colonisation; the cultural erasure of native identities under the banner of Marxist historical revisionism, has resulted in the destruction of Chinese indigenous 3rd-genders. I have never, ever truly felt safe or at peace. Violence is deeply engrained in the core of my being. Still we must look forwards. I do my best to cultivate inner peace.

I've never, ever asked the wider community for support before; I have always done my best to handle my own affairs, and I have always supported communities and peoples in greater need as a revolutionary. I'm deeply grateful and somewhat embarrassed to make this entreaty, but I promise you I will put any funds I receive to good use.

I'm now actively engaged in interviews for engineering roles (if anyone needs senior front-end/full-stack software engineers DMs are open). I need some help with mounting medical bills and 2 ER visits, and living expenses due to loss of work. I would like to break the generational curse in my own lifetime, if I can.

Thank you, 謝謝您們.