
Help a queer WOC escape her abusive household
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Hi everyone. I'm Kalina, a queer woman of color from Maryland, living in a toxic household that is detrimental to my health. I'm forced to stay with my family due to COVID but my mental health is steadily declining every day. I'm desperate to leave but I have no car and no other family outside of my immediate family. I normally would be afraid to ask for help but things are getting so bad and I'm not only being neglected but treated as a scapegoat. I have diagnosed CPTSD, depression, anxiety, and chronic fatigue syndrome from them. Most of my savings from working have been taken from me and they refuse to relinquish them. I don't have freedom and I've been told to suppress my queer identity for the sake of the family reputation. I'm emotionally, financially, verbally, mentally, and sometimes physically abused although this is much rarer.
I need to find a stable living situation while I seek work which has proven incredibly hard in this pandemic. I'm estimating that 5000 will keep me alive for some months and help me find a place to stay, food to eat, a way to transport some of my belongings, and maybe get me an old small car that will get me from there to any work I can find, and if there is any left afterwards, the health insurance and the therapy I've been denied. I don't feel safe here and I am truly so exhausted from so many sleepless nights. I would be immensely grateful for any help, thank you so so much and much love to everyone. I also just want to say that I am using a pseudonym and am protecting my identity, hence the lack of a photo of me. But the situation is very real.
I need to find a stable living situation while I seek work which has proven incredibly hard in this pandemic. I'm estimating that 5000 will keep me alive for some months and help me find a place to stay, food to eat, a way to transport some of my belongings, and maybe get me an old small car that will get me from there to any work I can find, and if there is any left afterwards, the health insurance and the therapy I've been denied. I don't feel safe here and I am truly so exhausted from so many sleepless nights. I would be immensely grateful for any help, thank you so so much and much love to everyone. I also just want to say that I am using a pseudonym and am protecting my identity, hence the lack of a photo of me. But the situation is very real.
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Kalina W.
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Severn, MD