I can’t believe I’m even doing this but here goes. I’m anonymous for my own safety. I also feel a lot of shame, I don’t want people to know this happened to me. 
I’m a QPOC escaping an abusive home situation and am essentially homeless during a pandemic. I’ve been abused from my youngest childhood memory up until my 20’s now. I work full time, 45 hour weeks, and am also finishing my degree. The abuse has been mental and physical and affected me to the point where I’ve been self harming for 8 years to try and cope with it. There’s no real reason for the abuse,  when I was a kid/ teenager it would be over the smallest things. After I came out my sexuality was used against me constantly and to this day I’m treated completely differently to my brothers and sisters. Constantly being told I can change, that it’s wrong, that abusing me isn’t the sin, the sin is me being gay. 

After a really bad argument with my father that descended into being physical, I’m crashing at a friends until I can afford to get a place of my own. I have another QPOC friend who is in the exact same situation as me who is also trying to become stable so we can look for a place together. We both know we can’t survive in the homes we grew up in anymore.

I know times are tough. Really tough. Anything anyone can donate would help both me and my friend with rent, deposit, furniture and bills. 

thank you so much in advance. For sharing or donating, both mean so much.