Support Jubilee’s Healing Journey: Rest, Relief & Real Talk

Jubilee Starling is a writer, advocate, and relentless survivor currently undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. She’s also living with chronic pain, increasing mobility challenges, and a medical system that too often dismisses women’s pain as “an overreaction.” Sound familiar? It should. It happens every day.

But Jubilee’s story is about more than suffering. It’s about showing up anyway with honesty, audacity, and grace.

TL;DR:

In the last year, Jubilee’s body went to war and her calendar turned into a full-time survival log. She was diagnosed with leukemia, shoved into chemo, hit with nonstop chronic pain, and dismissed by doctors who blamed her symptoms on being dramatic, female, or “just hormonal.” (Spoiler: it was none of those things.) She’s been to the ER more times than she can count, lost the physical stamina she once had, and, like so many others, has fallen into financial instability simply because being sick makes working impossible.

And yet. She’s still here. Still kind. Still writing. Still hopeful. Still showing up.

But hope alone doesn’t pay for rides to the hospital, keep the phone on for medical calls, or cover the groceries, medications, or adaptive tools she now needs to get through the day. This fundraiser will directly support Jubilee’s basic needs while she focuses on healing:

Transportation to critical appointments

Medication and symptom management

Phone/internet bills (for telehealth and support)

Nutrition, hygiene, and comfort care

A cushion for emergencies while her body fights to survive

Jubilee is not asking for pity, she’s asking for breathing room. For a little help staying afloat while she does the hard work of healing from the inside out.

She’s a woman who’s fought through childhood trauma, chronic illness, and systemic failures: and still found a way to speak the truth with heart. To make art. To laugh in hospital gowns. To care about others even while unraveling. Her story is real, raw, and worth holding.

“My body feels like it’s falling apart. And yet, I stand with grace for myself and dignity in my tenacious audacity.”

Ways You Can Help:

Donate if you’re able. Every contribution helps stabilize her day-to-day survival.

Share her story. Help it land in front of someone who might have the means to give.

Send a message. Words matter more than you know.

She’s not fading. She’s fighting. And with your help, Jubilee can rest a little easier—knowing her community has her back the way she’s always had ours.