The mother of Jasmine Star Mack has created a crowdfund to help with her final arrangements. The goal is $2000 and there have been no donations yet. That’s so devastating. It shouldn’t be difficult for people, even LGBTQ just in the DC area, to help her with that goal.
The family of KC Johnson have set up a crowdfund to help with her final arrangements. Note that KC is misgendered on this crowdfund, but she deserves a proper burial. Here’s hoping her family acknowledges her authentic identity. The goal is $6000 and they have raised.
These families and the victims deserve the resources to at least bury their loved one. I try to include these links in my memorial posts, but here — I felt it was important to pull them out on their own. GoFundMe actually approached me about amplifying one of them.
I remember one situation where the brother of a Latina trans woman murdered by her boyfriend was about to sell his car — his only way to work — to come up with the final $2000. I went to bat — here’s a family doing everything right by their sister, why weren’t we helping them? Someone stepped forward. I felt relief, but also this deep anger that we have to beg and beg for every crumb.
Still that’s better, I suppose, than the families who force their loved one from their…
