Supporting Amanda's Recovery

Recently Amanda had a loss of a partner and is grieving. At the time of Peter's death, Amanda had been about to start fundraising for her new nonprofit collaboration. Now, she is unable to push that project forward at the moment and is facing many expenses (rent, therapy, acupuncture, and other crisis and medical support, car expenses, etc). She is embarrassed about asking for support, so I offered to help her by creating this campaign. If you have the ability to help Amanda, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you


Here is Amanda's FB post in her own words:

I don't have the energy to keep telling everyone in my life what's going on and don't want to pretend it's not happening... so, here goes. 

The magical human Peter Rubin who I was dating for the past couple of profound months (and building a deep friendship with for the last year + a couple of months) took his life in late January. I was the last loved one to see him and we were supposed to meet up again that night. I kicked off the search, called his family, and despaired as I awaited the news I didn't want to be true. I am an utter mess. I was falling for this man and he wanted to build a partnership with me.


Peter, you were such a light. You had so much wisdom, helped so many, and ultimately, suffered so deeply. This pandemic crippled the light of your core joy in life: connection - deep, intimate, uninhibited, physically loving. Your community is simultaneously devastated and working to celebrate your large life - lived fully and so OUT LOUD. I will always miss you and hope you can feel our love and gratitude.