I have the privilege of being able to use my VA Disability funds to move and it's taken me 3 years of struggling to do so.
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You need help? What sort of help?
jul 5, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
While I definitely could use help, that's not why I comment. I comment because as a white Disabled Woman intersectionality matters in my feminism. I comment because while I *AM* getting out, I realize that's an EXTREME privilege that even my own friends have said they wish was accessible to them.
jul 6, 2025, 12:31 am • 2 0 • view
They weren't kidding about accessibility of moving out of this area. The South is its own network of semi-self-inflicted poverty and we're raised to not understand. That being said;
jul 6, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
I'd rather help go into organizations like the following: Southern Coalition for Social Justice SouthernCoalition.org Southern Center for Human Rights – Equality. Dignity. Justice. schr.org Southern Poverty Law Center SPLCenter.org And I can't speak for all states, but for my state: SCwren.org
jul 6, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 1 • view
While I understand the desire is to get people out, these organizations serve to protect those who remain here who can't afford to move. Right now there is a lot going on. My goal is to get out & dedicate every dollar I earn to either sustaining myself or advocating for those who can't get out.
jul 6, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
I’m in the process of downsizing to become nomadic. All I’m keeping is my camping/survival equipment & food.
jul 6, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
I wanted to somewhat do that with everything else in a storage unit. But, without overly complicating this thread: family. 😅 Hence the few years to get out.
jul 6, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view