I am a disabled and unemployed trans woman of colour, unfortunately due to poor mental and physical health

and the lack of available safe jobs for trans women due to the rise in fascism, transphobia and rampant normalized hatred towards people of south Asian descent like myself, I'm unable to find work that pays living wages. To combat these tough conditions, earlier this year I transformed my home into a functional high-quality music recording studio.

My background is in the arts, from: audio visual editing, audio engineering, music production, painting, and curating; to creating community spaces for marginalized people. These experiences have allowed me to turn my home into a studio with so much care and intention over these last two years. Through my studio, I offer 'pay what you can' EP/album/demo/podcast recording with the focus on producing as many up and coming artists as possible with the aim of reducing barriers to music recording and publishing for struggling queer, and trans musicians.

I am a big supporter of the 'right to repair' movement which inspires me in finding, repairing, reusing functional high-quality audio gear, and it's something that I would like to continue to do and teach other queer and trans people through PWYC workshops so we can all contribute to our rights to repair and stop giving our money to greedy corporations.

My goal is to fund raise $15,000, $2000 of which is needed urgently (this week) to avoid eviction from my home (and business). In essence what I’m asking is for five months of support, while I build my clientele, manage my medical symptoms, get out of eviction danger. Continuing to make my studio a safe space for queer community to make art and sustain themselves.

So please understand that by donating, sharing this GoFundMe, and booking studio time with me, you’re helping not only helping me sustain myself, but the community that I ground myself in, access to a hope of consistent income and care. Please help relieve me from these stressors of survival so I can flourish and come out of survival mode.

Thank you so much for reading, supporting and sharing. I'm utterly grateful!