*Edited 6/18/2020
Black Trans Lives Matter too.
We can’t support the movement for Black lives without also acknowledging that Trans people, even in the Black community, are discriminated against the hardest.
I’ve made 2 sets of fairy wings that were auctioned in my eBay store, and the profits went to the respective charities: The Bail Project and Transgender Law Center.
The auctions raised roughly $1,000 total for charity!
First, we have the yellow and black Pansy wings, to support Black Lives Matter.
The wings were hand painted digitally by me in the organizations' bright yellow and black, with a hidden 'BLM' in the black patterning.
I also painted that same wing style in the colors of the Trans flag - blue, pink and white.
Fairy Wings for Black Lives Matter. Auction profits will go to The Bail Project
Protest wings for Trans Rights, to be auctioned with profits going to the Transgender Law Center.
They sold on June 16 at 11pm in my eBay store here:
https://www.ebay.com/usr/the_fancy_fairy?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
For the Black Lives Matter wings: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324199551766
For the Trans Rights wings: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324199566007
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Even though they are not industrial strength by any means, perhaps these wings will help with physical distancing at protests because remember y’all - we are still in a pandemic so be careful out there!
$408.00 from the BLM wings sale went to The Bail Project, and $396.00 from the Trans wings went to Transgender Law Center.
I also made an additional payment of $200 manually to Black Trans Travel Fund, for a total of $1,004!
I only kept the amount for the materials’ cost.
I also have been making a small automatic monthly donation of $10 to the Black Lives Matter organization, same goes for Planned Parenthood and Earth Justice.
Above are screen shots of the receipts for the donations I’ve mentioned.
I was also making the same monthly donation amount to ACLU but stopped after they continued to help neo-Nazis get their rallies approved and will probably be replacing that one with monthly donations to either Transgender Law Center or The Trevor Project.
I’m also looking into a Shopify extension to have a portion of each sale donated to charities.
Black Trans Lives Matter too, yet they haven't been getting as much attention even though they have the highest murder rate of any oppressed group.
I hope whoever wins them considers consciously what to do with them if they are white / cis / hetero and are not in the group for which they are advocating.
For example, if you're a Kardashian and want to throw money at the cause that's great, but maybe don't wear them to a protest since your fam has been accused of blackfishing so often.
You know.
Situations like that.
Maybe donate or lend them to a wonderful black / trans person in your life or an activist you admire who is not a Kanye West or Candice Owens. Because let's face it, they are not helping things.