Category Archives: Donate

It’s almost one of our organizer’s birthday! Let’s help them celebrate by raising much needed funds for S&P NY and for Alisha’s post-release fund!  From Red:  If you want to celebrate with me, please consider making a donation of any amount to Survived & Punished New York‘s Summer Mutual Aid Commissary Drive and/or to Justice forContinue reading “Red’s Birthday Fundraising Efforts”

Our hearts are with our Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo comrades, our hearts are breaking. Rest In Power, Lorena. Your life, wisdom, work and support have touched so many. You’ve truly blessed us. Please support her organizing home and family, in honor of her memory: https://www.gofundme.com/f/transgender-people-emergency-fund-101

Adjusting to life post-release requires caring support networks and funds. One of our recently released comrades needs our collective help to relocate and pay for housing, and repair a damaged car. Support survivors, give what you can and/or amplify this ask! Venmo us urgently needed funds: @SxHxCollective

This past week the amazing crew from Under The Red Umbrella Documentary visited us and spoke with a couple of our organizers (we missed you Donna Gary + Aaron, and of course, Decatur is still preventing LeLe from being a part of any sort of video documentation)! We talked at length about how we formed as a collective, howContinue reading “Under The Red Umbrella Documentary”

Please donate toward commissary and visitation needs here:https://www.gofundme.com/support-alisha-walker Please sign and share this petition created by a supporter:www.care2.com/FreeAlisha Please write to Alisha by mail:Ms. Alisha Walker #Y12381Decatur CorrectionalPO BOX 3066Decatur, IL 62524 Please write to Alisha via Connect Network email:https://web.connectnetwork.comusing Alisha’s ‘inmate number’ Y12381 and state IL Share this video about Alisha’s case, created by us, BarnardContinue reading “Looking for ways to support Alisha?”

Alisha’s mail and video visits are being targeted for disruption and censoring—please continue to flood her with letters of love and support! (Refrain from using markers/crayons/paint/glitter) s/o @MomsUnitedChi for this beautiful graphic!  If you have the means, please consider making a donation to her commissary and visitation fund: https://www.gofundme.com/support-alisha-walker Take the time to sign this petition andContinue reading “Write a card or letter in support of Alisha Walker”

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-alisha-walker TODAY we ask you to give+share her commissary/visitation fund! Our goal is to raise $2400 by the end of this month so we can prioritize creating a specific re-entry fund for LeLe! Being able to guarantee month-to-month $$$ needs would be huge. This would mean we could focus our attention on establishing a re-entry fundContinue reading “February 11th is #AlishaWalker’s birthday!”

From our comrades in the Free Chrystul Kizer Defense Campaign and Black & Pink MKE:  BACKGROUNDChrystul Kizer is a black teenage survivor of violence. At only 17-years old, she was charged with multiple felonies for defending herself from an older white man who has been accused of ongoing physical and sexual abuse of not onlyContinue reading “#FREEChrystul: DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST CHRYSTUL KIZER AND RELEASE HER IMMEDIATELY”

Together everyone involved in #FreeThePeopleDay raised just shy of $500,000!!! Completely amazing and powerful! Thankful to everyone who shared, donated, and signal boosted these efforts. Thank you Mariame Kaba, thank you Kelly Hayes for making this happen. Here’s to the work that’s focused on ending money bail, pre-trial detention, jails and prisons.

Please call/write/physically go to the TN governor’s office to demand clemency and her immediate release! Follow Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, Love & Protect, SWOP Behind Bars and Survived and Punished for more on how you can help! Cyntoia Brown (29 years old now) was 16 years old when she was imprisoned for killingContinue reading “We stand with Cyntoia Brown and ALL criminalized survivors!”

In 2016, T.B., a  Black transgender woman and sex worker, was involved in an interaction with a client and two other sex workers that resulted in an arrest for criminal trespass to vehicle. She accepted a plea deal that placed her on probation and requires her to pay $1,336.00 in restitution to the complaining witnessContinue reading “From our Chicago comrades:”

A comrade of Alisha’s, Tanya Haemer #R87472 is in need of financial support immediately. She is seeking furlough through the Clinical Services of Decatur Correctional to spend time with her dying mother, Vickie. Vickie has been struggling with COPD, only has 17% lung capacity and stage 4 cancer in her bones, liver and bladder. She has beenContinue reading “EMERGENCY FUNDS NEEDED!”

https://www.youcaring.com/alishawalker-1147127 The fundraising platform Generosity is being absorbed by You Caring, so we’ve created a new fundraiser page for Alisha. We need to continue raising funds for commissary, phone, email, video visits and to help her family/friends financially afford to visit in-person. Please donate, share, circulate this new page. Right now family plans to visit inContinue reading “Please donate, share, circulate this new page.”

LeLe wants to extend an enthusiastic thank you to everyone who sent books to her for her birthday! She received over 70 titles! WOW! Thank you for supporting her passion for reading, writing and drawing! She recently finished “N.B.” by Charlotte Shane and has now begun reading “Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay and “Invisible No More” byContinue reading “Book updates from Alisha!!”

Today is #GivingTuesday and we’re asking that you give your money to incarcerated sex workers. We do fundraisers and community asks for much needed funds often because it is so damn expensive to keep our friends and loved ones, like Alisha, connected to the outside world. We cannot stress how important it is for LeLe and allContinue reading “Giving Tuesday”

Remember you can donate here to support visits and commissary needs for Alisha!

There exist a myriad of organizations, campaigns, collectives and groups that are interested in consciousness raising, labor based organizing and promoting the rights of sex workers and the decriminalization of sex work. Start with the list below: Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP USA) Red Umbrella Fund Support Ho(s)e The English Collective of Prostitutes POWER (ProstitutesContinue reading “Donate/Support/Build”