Displaced Muffintop Residents Survival Fund
As you may have heard, Muffintop Mountain--a land project for highly-impacted two-spirit and trans folks--is no more.
After four years of toughing it out and trying to build support on 52 acres of Takelma land in SW Oregon, we recently shut down due to mold on the property and its contributions to health issues of sensitive residents. This is after years of struggling financially and physically to keep the project going.
While Muffintop may be no more, its former residents and caretakers are still alive and continue with our own struggles for survival and dreams of thriving in this toxic world. We now ask for your financial assistance with our efforts to stay alive. This fundraiser will benefit Mars and Fawn, former residents who are sick&disabled, two-spirit, trans and queer people caring for each other and struggling to keep on going and find some semblance of stability.
As of July 1st, they are in Portland with nowhere to stay. They urgently need housing with no (or few) stairs, as a minimum requirement. They have a genius angel cat who frequently stays on leash and is very well behaved.
Mars and Fawn are both such bright and dark spirits with deep and chill and subtle and present connection to the more than human world. They need community support, financial, housing, and physical, to break the crisis cycle. If you are in Portland and could do some laundry or go grocery shopping or cook some food or check in with them, please do. The isolation from being sick and disabled is very, very real. They need help. Thank you for sending funds, sharing this fundraiser, or offering physical support.
We hope that someday the dream of Muffintop Mountain--a rural space where highly-impacted disabled two-spirit and trans people can thrive in a web of mutual support--will blossom elsewhere. Through our struggles we've realized how far queer and trans folks have to go before such a project can be successful within a larger web of care and support. At the same time, the passion with which some folks dedicated themselves to this project was incredibly inspiring; in addition to the need for such a space, this passion is the reason why we believe such a project can and will spring to life once more.
Muffintop is dead, but the dream is still alive.
Thank you to everyone who has offered even an ounce of support to this incredibly nourishing project over the years.
p.s. There was a previous fundraiser to benefit disabled trans resident and Muffintop founder, X (alix p. shedd) thru her emergency health crisis in December. Those funds were extremely supportive and critical to her survival. This fundraiser is going to different residents.
