#croudfunding

[coral-skeleton]

Help me afford top surgery

Hi y'all, for those who don't know me, I'm a disbled, neurodivergent, trans man living in Cape Town, South Africa. I'm also a gradstudent in Astronomy currently finishing up my MSc, an artist and a poet.

In South Africa we don't really have many options to pursue transition, our private medical aids and insurance don't cover any of it, not even hospital costs as they classify gender affirming care as a cosmetic process instead of the life saving medical care we all know it is. Going through the public health sector is also not really an option as the waitlist is over 26 years long due to our national government again seeing gender affirming care as purely cosmetic and only giving one spot for any gender affirming surgery per year.

In South Africa there's also still alot of stigma around being trans and trans people face violence and discrimination on a daily basis, so in addition to the usual benefits of getting top surgery, it will also greatly improve my safety

This is however very expensive, being a student I am on a very tight budget, living paycheck to paycheck already, trying to save up for a procedure that costs nearly my entire yearly income is next to impossible, I also can't turn to my family in this instance as they are extremely transphobic

So the only option I have left is to try and crowdfund it. As I am South African I unfortunately can't use go fund me, so I'm using the South African croudfunding service, backabuddy, it does accept paypall and I-Pay

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated

So far I have raised:

R11 111.00/R120 000.00

$590.13/$6 374.00

(usd for convenience, conversion rate on 6 march 2024, $1 = R18.83)

[catchdacraze]

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[adamantform]

SO SMOOOOL...You can get files for printing him here:

[sibblank]

something about the concept of new mst3k makes it totally unappealing to me

[theshadow-inthelight]

Everyday I grow more excited for the day I can start saving for top surgery

[redjaybathood]

i was blocked by the user who posted this - good riddance; people who are blocking me lately are not the people in general I would like to interact with, since they want me and my country dead - but here's the link.

this (the croudfunding project user posted) is great (maybe, I don't know if they're trustworthy) but i'd like to address the tweet on the first screenshot above. Please read the text below after you donate to Palestine and Sudan's women, if you personally find this user trustworthy; because while I am pissed af, women in war zones do need your help.

"I remember this headline addressing women's health in Ukraine" - curious, because as a Ukrainian woman, I do not, in fact, remember this headline addressing women's health in Ukraine. I did remember buying a menstrual cup for like. A whole lot of money. Because there was a blockade around the city, nothing goes in and out, so pads disappeared pretty quick, quicker than I got the money to buy them, so when I did have the money, I had to use an expensive and really really uncomfortable device because I had no alternative. Well, unless toilet paper or cotton can be considered an alternative. (do not recommend)

Don't get me wrong, I found an article (amount: 1; one) with this headline, posted in March 2022, that did mention Ukrainian women and humanitarian relief for them needing to include feminine hygiene products. But you know who else the article mentioned? 40 millions of displaced women and girls around the world since 2020.

The article also mentioned refugees and displaced women and girls since 2014. I did not, in fact, hear anything about anyone sending pads as humanitarian aid to Ukraine in 2014. Funny, right? Because the war started 10 years ago, and it took the world eight years to get on the page.

But Razi on twitter here doesn't think so. They think it's unfair, that there's been a whole article shared a whole of eleven times on twitter since March 2022. Yeah, Razi, good memory you have.

Well. I might be unfair to Razi. Maybe they don't mean to do that thing where you mention Ukraine only to boost engagement, by pitting Ukraine and other countries, such as Palestine or Sudan, against each other. With the main message being: Ukraine "steals" the aid that should have come to us! Nobody helps us but they help Ukraine! And the takeaway your audience has: bad Ukraine, stop helping it.

Maybe they didn't mean to. But this is a pattern, and there are consequences. And those consequences leave Ukrainians dead.

(and yeah, for the op I linked - they 100% do it intentionally; the only times they mention Ukraine is only for this reason)

Please. Please, please, please, STOP pitting Ukraine against your cause of the week - most people doing that didn't really post anything about Gaza or Sudan before Oct 7. (Raza themself only woke up to Gaza in December, but at least they did care about Sudan before).

I know the perception is that the whole world is enthusiastically helping Ukraine but... this is not really the case, unfortunately.

[xdrainex]

Just updated my Throne wishlist as well because I can't sleep 😂 I'm using Throne more for cosplay/luxury type items

Croudfunding is active on everything that's over $30 💞 All contributors will recieve content from me per usual!

✨️Throne✨️

🖤🖤If you don't see a cosplay on my wishlist that you want to see me do dm me the idea!🖤🖤

All the things on my lists are stuff that I aim to buy myself when I have cash if they aren't gifted 😋 It's nice to save everything in one place and see how much I'll need.

[najarianbros]

Adam Corolla and I take a spin in Saleen S1

Adam Corolla and I take a spin in Saleen S1

Saleen Croudfunding round is closing soon, so if you’d like a piece of a legendary car company in the seed round, check out http://invest.Saleen.com today!

  Check out this episode!

[coral-skeleton]

If you guys wanna help me get top surgery before trump clamps down on bodily autonomy internationally, that would be pretty cool

https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/jc-viljoen-5844914382029699113

[shearah]

someone... sent me an ask requesting I share a croudfunding post for their sick cat, but in the time it took me to finish raid and see the message they have deactivated their blog D:

I hope the cat is okay

[toonnytotal]

OKAY IM LISTENING TO THE CROUDFUNDING VIDEO AND. MAN SHE SUCKS

When I was Recalling it, I thought her voice was just slightly subpar or something but I'm listening to it again, and MAN. IT'S LAME. She is Not doing a Good Job.

I'm glad that Boxtown Is getting some traction, it's Always great to see Independent Projects get more Attention, but I wish they didn't hire Tara Strong to voice one of the Main Characters, Not only is her performance kinda. lame? not that great, but she's also anti-vax and stuff, I really Wish they chose A Better Person to Voice the guy

[jaderavenarts]

Erin Jade Raven is a mixed Asian American artist who loves to explore moments of connection between characters in her art. While she likes pulling at viewers' emotions, her favorite is to get people to smile from her work.

My poor marooned pirate and their cute short comic are a part of WildStar Press's Songs of the Sea pirate comic anthology!

It's available for preorders now!

[lifeofamonkeybum]

Hello beautiful people!! I have MASSIVE favor. Gigi Edgley is in pre production for her newest music video for her song "Dragon In My Soul" an she would love it if you would take the journey with her! Please donate if you can and if you can't (which is totally understandable) please share it with everyone you know! This song has a very special place in her heart and she can not wait to share it with everyone!!!

[paintwizard]

I made a previous post but it didnt get much traction

My moms gofundme has slowed down recently, shes halfway now, at $2544 of the $5000 goal.

My mom has been on dialysis for months since her first round of chemo messed up her kidneys, then her first chemo port got infected and had to get removed, and now she has a port in her arm I've been flushing for her every 12 hours the past month, and in 4 days (May 26th) she ends chemo and will have that port removed and starts radiation.

My mom is a lovely lady who deserves the world, reblogs and any donations (from those who can obviously) are appreciated.

[donna-wants-to-be-an-alien]

Can we croudfund your salary?!

Maybe it is time for me to get more into hacking. Maybe I just hack the fucking spambots. Find out where they're from. Put a virus on their servers.