Please help us raise $5,000 to support Chad Goller-Sojourner. He needs at least $2,500 for urgent emergency rental assistance. Chad is a gifted Seattle writer, storyteller and LGBTQ+ activist. He is a longtime leader in the national transracial adoption space and an outspoken advocate for gay rights and civil rights in the Seattle area and beyond. Chad is living with new disabilities in a bleak job market. The current economic constraints on artists, coupled with his emergent health issues is an opportunity to help Chad get stability by reaching out to our broader community. Please give if you can and share with your networks. Thank you!

ABOUT CHAD:

"I am a Seattle-based writer, solo performer, humorist, storyteller, and recipient of a distinguished Artist Trust Washington State Arts Commission Performing Arts Fellowship.

My 2007 chapbook, Born One Thousand Years Too Early: Fat, Dark-Skinned, Gay, and Adopted by White Folks: A Fragmentary Journey Towards Alignment, was described as poignant, chilling, and prophetic.

Over the past 20 years, I have created four autobiographical solo shows: Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy, which was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness, which was featured on NPR; Marching in Gucci: Memoirs of a Well-Dressed Black AIDS Activist; and How I Met My Dead Birth Mother.

I have dedicated 18 years to educating and being educated by thousands of people involved with eating disorders. This includes hundreds of student affairs and mental health professionals.

Thousands of transracial families and hundreds of adoption agencies have benefited from my scholarship on child and adolescent identity development of transracially adopted children.

My work on the social, political, and historical dimensions of multi-identity construction and intersectionality resulted in teaching fellowships from both Radford and Ohio University."