Help Pegasus Tattoo and Wellness Launch the Community Care Fund!

East Dallas Social Club is partnering with Pegasus Tattoo and Wellness — a queer-owned, trauma-informed tattoo studio and wellness collective in Dallas, TX. We are helping raise funds for a project that’s deeply personal and urgently needed: The Community Care Fund.

Pegasus was founded by two long-time Oak Cliff locals — Stephanie Adelina, a tattoo artist with 16+ years of experience, and Satchel Victory, a former educator at Booker T. Washington HSPVA, and now a mental health professional.

They’ve both spent their lives working closely with the community — in art, education, and healing. Through years of tattooing deeply personal pieces and witnessing emotional transformations, they saw clearly how tattoos can be part of the healing process. Satchel, coming from a decade of working in social emotional learning and identity-affirming education, brought a deep understanding of community care and mental health into the mix.

That’s where this new chapter was born: a space where body art and wellness intersect, built to hold people through their healing journeys with creativity, safety, and care.

Why We’re Raising Money

Mental health care is expensive. Many of their clients need therapy but can only afford $35 or less per session. Therapists, meanwhile, deserve to be paid fairly and consistently — not expected to carry the emotional and financial burden of pro bono work.

So they’re launching The Community Care Fund (CCF) — a model that pays the difference between what a client can afford and what a therapist needs to make a living.

Your donation helps:

• Fund direct access to therapy for those with limited resources

• Pay therapists fairly so they can continue doing this vital work without burning out

• Support the overhead costs of maintaining the wellness space, where these sessions and community workshops take place

• Build transparent systems to track and report their impact

• Host future events that foster healing, education, and connection

How You Can Support

We’re looking to raise $10,000 to kick this off and sustain it through the summer. If we meet our goal, they’ll be able to offer over 200 therapy sessions to those in need.

This is for the community, by the community. If you can’t donate, please share. We believe healing is collective. Thank you for being part of ours.