Grand Rising,

My name is Doc JuDah. I am a Black, agender, queer, and disabled person born on the Ancestral homelands of the Kumeyaay People (colonial name: San Diego) and raised on the Ancestral homelands of the Nisenan and Miwok People (colonial name: Sacramento).

I am seeking community support as I navigate a major life transition.

Support in this moment looks like receiving community funds to cover legal fees to update a formal parenting agreement, help my family move and settle into our new home, farm, and cooperative (on Lake Miwok ancestral homelands), and support me as I navigate changes in my career as I lean deeper into my practice as a healer (Speak Our United Liberation) and shift into helping to make Bosque La Luna (farm cooperative) a fully fledged space for community.

These needs are interconnected, and together they have led me to call in my community for support.

Your support will help cover the growing legal costs of updating our parenting agreement, so my son has what he needs to be safe, supported, and deeply loved. My goal is to co-create a parenting plan that will help me show him, through my actions, that he is surrounded by unwavering love and a strong circle of care, including both of his parents and everyone who can support him in his life.

With your support, I will also be able to support my children through our move to our cooperative farm and begin our new journey homesteading in a place where we are surrounded by community.

Our estimated needs:

- Ongoing legal fees: $10,000

- Living stabilization: $3,000

- Career transition costs: $2,000

- Total goal: $15,000

With a gentle and grateful heart, I ask for support in meeting my family’s needs. My life has been spent in service to community. I have served, and will continue to serve, with humble gratitude for the ways I have been able to support others. As I do with my clients, I now want to model and walk the talk by reaching out to community in my time of need.

I am grateful to all those who support in any way they can. It is a testament to our enduring human spirit the ways in which we can show up for one another in moments of need. Thank you.

In Community,

Doc JuDah, Emory, Mykha, and family!