Help Ashe Survive

I'm Wren Ashe Frey (I answer to Wren or Ashe). I am disabled, queer, nonbinary, and at serious risk of homelessness.I originally started this fundraiser as both a healthcare and survival campaign. I do still need gender-affirming care but my day to day survival is in jeopardy and becomes more precarious by the day.

In 2015 I started my PhD and lived in campus housing, while also working as a TA. During that time I was subject to horrific employment discrimination but I tried to power through because I relied on student loans to survive.

In February of this year it became suddenly apparent that the abuse wasn't just from the employment side of graduate school. I found out in a flurry of incredibly abusive emails that my dissertation supervisor had been lying to me about key requirements for my dissertation and that the project I'd been working on for more than 3 years was not going to be passable.

Since then the university has offered no assistance. I have no external support system. My family has disowned me.

This situation has destroyed hard-won progress on my mental health as I am constantly retraumatized by the callousness and gaslighting from the university that stole 8 years of my life and left me with nothing to show for it. I don't even have a good story for why I don't have my PhD. I wasn't technically failed. I didn't quit. I am not officially expelled but I have no options to move forward to completion.

This has forced me into an impossible financial situation as I face imminent eviction. I am in serious rent debt to the university and I cannot begin to afford to move.

My mental health is so bad I'm not really fit for work. Though even if I was how can I get a job with an 8 year gap on my resume where the reason I don't have a PhD plus 8 years of experience working in academia is discrimination?

I desperately need help to survive. Please help if you can.