Help Boo secure stable, safe housing!

REQUEST FOR SUPPORT!!!

good day. i hope this messages finds you in the presence of affirmation and long overdue blessings. i’m writing this message as a means of letting folks know that after 9 long years in the east coast/midwest, and several failed attempts to move, i have finally relocated back to the west coast! it has been so challenging but i’m happy to say that with the help of spirit and trust in my hands, i drove all the way from philly to los angeles by myself!

with all that being said, i want to b transparent that while i am celebrating this move and the courage it took to make it, i am also facing housing insecurity and searching for stable employment in Los Angeles. and right now i need tangible support. truly, i need more support than i can give myself alone. and what would tangible support look like?

first and foremost tangible support looks like financial support. this means folks who have the means sharing their wealth! i.e. i just received word that i was accepted into tinhouse’s winter workshop to work under a Black Trans writer that i respect! yet i do not have the funds to pay for this creative development opportunity! making sure that i have access to housing, employment, and creative development opportunities would make this transition much easier for me and keep the excitement from turning into dread.

secondly it looks like helping me with connections to work. i am an audio engineer, writer/poet, diviner, performer, teaching artist/workshop facilitator, and diviner dealing with syncretic forms. i have work experience in community organizing, teaching & museum art, workshop facilitation, audio engineering, performing, and social work. moving forward i am looking to get into the music and film industries, and am comfortable doing social work or community organizing and facilitation. tangible support would look like sending me opportunities for employment and engagement that u believe align with my politics and work history!

lastly, tangible support can actually look like words of affirmation. i always appreciate a word and the intention of covering on my behalf. please remind me i can do this, that the storm will end! and that the things i need are only waiting for me to accept them.

in all honesty i’m SHOOK right now. fear had kept me for a long time from making this move. and now that i have, i need all the help i can get to make sure that i can stabilize my life asap. this is the second time in less than two years i am facing housing insecurity (i was houseless most of summer 2020) and all i want atp is to have a comfortable place to stay where my cat can stretch her legs out and i can retreat from the antiblackness of the world we live in. i would not ask if i was not in need, and i am standing knee deep in the need! i cannot do this alone and so i am asking for the support and uplift of the people here who have engaged with my content and see what i’m about!

thank you for reading this. and thank you in advance for your support. i pray that this message reveals to u the urgency of my need, and that i can be supported and moved toward stability asap!

with care,

boo