We took MONTHS to figure out who needed funding, budgeting, and
figuring out what we each needed to present our ORIGINAL research at a
national membership association in the US for sexologists.
We believe that working as a collective means more access and more support in raising the funds. We knew this would be a collective effort. We know $7000 is a whole lot of money.
We also know we are worth it! Our life’s work is worth it! Our voices are worth it! And then some.
Folks have
reached out to us and has asked us as INDIVIDUALS to share with them how
poor we are and why we need the funds. The folks do not recognize we are
a COLLECTIVE and in asking such questions are attempts to assess if each of us or all of us
are worthy enough to be supported. They are attempting to separate us
from the collective work we are doing. Pitting us against one another to
see who is more “worthy” or the right kind of “poor” to fund and be
present and seen and heard at the conference. They do not realize we
work together. That their attempts were met with a collective response.
They do not care and they do not understand this. Their white supremacy
does not allow for such collective types of support to register for
them.
That pisses me off.
I want to show those folks that there are people of Color who support us,
who support the work of sexologists of Color, who recognize we are
worthy and imperative to the field. That we are doing life changing and
life saving work.
$1400 will fund one of us to attend in full. $2800 will fund two of
us. $3200 will fund three of us. I want all of us to attend and the full
$7150 to be raised.
We deserve to be there. We’ve earned it, we’ve worked for it, we’ve
paved the way to mentor and support more of us in the field. We are
worth it. Please consider donating whatever you can so that at least 1
of us may attend.
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