Jess's Give OUT Day Fundraiser

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

API Equality-LA
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I'm helping fundraise for API Equality-LA--an org that's helped me holistically care for myself.

$1,355

raised by 32 people

$1,500 goal

Hello! I'm Jess, the Lead Organizer at API Equality-LA.~✨✨ ✨ 


During the month of June and as part of Give OUT Day, I'm raising $1,500 for API Equality-LA, a grassroots organization that builds community power in LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the greater Los Angeles area. API Equality-LA is trying to raise $15,000 to support our programming and advocacy around our wellness and mental health campaign called Transforming Community Care


It would mean a lot to me if you made a donation because API Equality-LA was the first community that has just made me feel comfortable to take care of myself. Often, as a queer, mixed, and non-binary person, it's hard for me to ever be at home in community spaces--more often, I encountered spaces that didn't know how to hold intersecting identities at once or just plained ignored them. It wasn't until I became involved at API Equality-LA that I realized how much bitterness and resentment I held within me, but didn't know how to start healing from it. This org has been a space that has asked (whether it's been from my coworkers or APIELA's committee members) for me to practice resting, reflecting, and receiving support as well as provided me resources to pursue holistic care. 


It's educated me on how I can care for myself not in isolation, but with support from my community. 


Your donation will help me and API Equality-LA to continue our work to empower our queer and trans API community to advocate for our mental health needs and necessities. I'm so excited for this organization's future and the direction that it's heading. I was really doubtful that I would ever return to or be excited about mental health work, because of the systematic oppressions present in a lot of it (surveillance, policing, reporting, grant constraints, wow, the list goes on). But, this org has made me hopeful again. 


Thanks for reading and thanks for your support.



If you have my contact info, you are entitled to one free, candid photo of Kika, my partner and my cat hehehe. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 


(sorry for any grammar errors.....)

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API Equality-LA

Organized By Jessica Baker

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