Help Bea Avoid Eviction and Reach Chicago

Hi, I'm Bea. I am a 19 year old trans woman currently living in an unstable and hostile home in Washington state.

Any funds from this fundraiser will be put towards moving expenses, paying for rides to and from work while I'm still working, and future rent.

I currently have a job and am trying to save up enough money to move to Chicago by August at the latest for college that I am already enrolled at, but I'm unsure if I will be able to maintain both my spot in this house and my job in tandem long enough to reach that point.

I Currently live with my grandmother, My mother and little sister recently were evicted by my grandmother because my mother did not want to raise my sister in a home like this, where she was scared to leave her own room, and because of my grandmothers abusive and vindictive behaviors.

I had to beg my grandmother not to evict me because I needed to maintain the job I have now for a guaranteed source of income and hopefully to save enough to as stated above move to Chicago.

Her reasoning for evicting my mother was baseless, My mother had been her personal caretaker for nearly 2 years, Cleaning the house, taking care of my grandmothers 9 different animals, taking my grandmother to appointments, and anything else my grandmother could ask for before I moved out here because of her cancer. I moved out to also assist my grandmother while she went through chemotherapy and she took advantage of all of our good will, she held the fact that she financially helped us (Gave us money for gas, paid for our/her groceries.) while we took care of her over our heads and called us ungrateful because we could not take care of her 24/7.

I don't want to sound like I'm complaining about having to do something for someone else. I gladly helped my grandmother until her needs became demands and those demands began to take up all of my mother and I's time.

Me and my mother had to put aside our own personal needs, mental health, and physical health to take care of her.

My grandmother has a very bad habit of going behind people who have helped her and saying nasty and hurtful things about them, she has lied to the courts in order to evict my mother, she has lied to my aunt about me and my mother so that she could keep someone in her pocket as a replacement caretaker.

I have no other family in this town who I could live with until that time aside from my father, But I moved out to my grandmothers house to get away from him because he was also extremely abusive towards me and unaccepting of my transition.

I assumed coming out to my grandmothers would be a good fresh start and I'd be able to have a stable life until it was time to move, but unfortunately it wasn't.

I pride myself on being able to get through the challenges life has thrown at me on my own, but I've realized that I need to ask for assistance and that I cannot just power through it and pray for the best. Every day feels like a waking nightmare and I have had more breakdowns in the past 2 months than I have in the past 6 years before this.

It is coming to a boiling point and I cannot handle being in this environment anymore.

I have a roommate lined up for Chicago, and am currently looking at apartments. I don't plan to quit my job but I'm making this as a backup incase my grandmother changes her mind and kicks me out too.

Thank you so much for reading this, and if you don't have any money to spare which I totally understand, It'd be appreciated if you could share this.