wordglass.bsky.social
Disabled Parent LλMBDA λward-winning Writer. Artist. Nonbinary.
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With love and gratitude,
Mari
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I’m asking for $16,000 to get through this turning point without falling through the cracks. This isn’t easy to ask — but the truth is, I can’t do this alone. Any amount, share, or kind word truly helps.
Thank you for helping me stay safe, housed, and human. 💙
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I need emergency funds to cover:
* Temporary housing or rent assistance
* Legal filing and document fees
* Transportation to appointments and court dates
* Basic living expenses while I seek stability and rebuild
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I’m doing everything I can:
✔️ Navigating legal aid and disability housing services
✔️ Applying to reinstate my SSDI (which I lost in 2017)
✔️ Working with community organizations to find long-term solutions
But these systems move slowly.
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I live with cerebral palsy, ADHD, dyscalculia, complex PTSD, and DID. I’m also a parent to a brilliant 14-year-old kid with ADHD, who I love deeply and co-parent with care. Until recently, I lived in a shared home — but I’m now losing my housing with no place else to go.
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But I’m one life event away from homelessness — and this is that event.
If you can donate or share, I’d be so grateful:
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5. Every $5, every retweet, every kind word helps me hold on while I build back up. Thank you for believing in me. 💙
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But it takes time — and I need help right now to cover:
🏠 Temporary housing
🚗 Transport to appointments
📄 Legal filing fees
🍎 Basic living costs
4. This isn’t easy to share. I’ve always tried to carry my own weight, even with disabilities.
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2 I lost SSDI in 2017 and have been surviving ever since — co-parenting my 14-year-old son and sharing a home. Now, I’m at risk of losing that home… with nowhere to go.
3. I'm reaching out to legal aid, disability housing orgs, and reapplying for SSDI.
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Unlike the earlier narrative driven by artifacts, this new discovery depends on the genetic data encoded in teeth, which are assumed to be a highly reliable indicator of lineage.
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Richard Scott, lead author of the study, remarked, "The Jomon were not directly ancestral to Native Americans… They [the Jomon] are more aligned with Southeast Asian and Pacific groups than with East Asian and Native American groups," as per Live Science.
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A detailed analysis of almost 1,500 sets of super ancient teeth has revealed that Native Americans are not biologically linked to the Jomon people as was believed once upon a time. Dr. G.
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Image of teeth (Representative Image Source: Unsplash | Photo by Kamal Hoseinianzade)
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However, a study is now challenging that belief, facilitating fresh details through a stunning source: ancient teeth, as per Taylor & Francis.
Image of teeth (Representative Image Source: Unsplash | Photo by Kamal Hoseinianzade)
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But the main question is, where did they come from? A groundbreaking theory indicates that these ancient people were directly linked to the Jomon people of Japan, largely based on similarities in stone tools discovered on both sides of the Pacific.
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For a long time, the lore of how the first people arrived in North America has fascinated archaeologists. The mere idea that these early migrants traveled from Asia across the Bering Land Bridge during the last Ice Age has stood the test of time.
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Thank you for seeing me—and helping me stay standing. 💙
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This is a request for breathing room—so I can stabilize, heal, and move forward without falling deeper into crisis.
If you can give, even $5 makes a difference. If you can’t donate, sharing this thread helps me reach people who might.
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Every day I show up for my son and myself, but I can’t do this next part alone.
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I’m raising $12,000 to cover:
✔️ Housing & living expenses during transition
✔️ Reapplying for SSDI or SSI
✔️ Medication, food, and basic needs
✔️ Tools to stay connected to care & legal aid
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3/Right now, I’m in survival mode. I’m trying to keep my son’s life stable, manage my health, and get back on disability benefits—but I need time and support to get there.
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I used to receive SSDI, but I lost it in 2017 when I tried to work through my disabilities. Since then, my conditions have gotten worse, and now I can’t make enough to cover basic living costs or housing—even though I’m doing everything I can.
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I’m facing a major transition and urgently need help to stay housed and reapply for disability benefits.
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We can end the continued and failed attempts of colonized minds, by basking in the clarity that comes from appreciating and celebrating another person’s culture. This is how we can change the world for the next generations and stop the pain.
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If we continue to let Native children be robbed of their customs, we reinforce the narrative that our people do not deserve to exist. So, educating young people on Native sovereignty is crucial. The trauma can end with this generation.
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are oppressive. There should always be a why.
Some people don’t want to find meaning behind rules, further solidifying their core values as oppressors of Indigenous people. It takes courage to speak out against a society that was designed to destroy your existence.
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We all process this trauma differently. Just as it’s in my DNA to fight back against oppression, it is in others’ DNA to uphold it.
The first thing to remember, especially if you want to be an ally, is that rules for rules’ sake
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Resilience comes from the wounds and battle scars of these events. It takes an intentional resistance to those who wish to remove and assimilate our existence without even understanding why they want us and our customs gone in the first place.
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began, so did the looming cloud of another attack on our culture.
This will be an ongoing battle, not just for me but for all Native Americans who face similar attempts at cultural erasure. So how do we fight back?
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They altered one word in another area of the rules and passed this as a “policy change” to combat the negative press the school had received. (HuffPost reached out to Classical Charter School for comment but did not receive an immediate response.) When the next school year
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Administrators conveniently decided to push off any “discussions” about changing their policy until the very end of the school year.
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I reached out to anyone who I believed could help me navigate this situation and get my son back into school with his teachers and friends. Finally after many calls, emails, interviews and letters, my son was able to return to class and finish the school year strong.
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The school gave us two weeks to cut his hair before he could return to class — and we both knew we wouldn’t touch a hair on his head.
So, I called on every person of influence I knew in North Carolina.
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I leaned and prayed to the creator for strength, because I knew there was a fight ahead. Most importantly, my son’s safety from the world was in jeopardy.
12/22
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We must resist these attacks on our culture and call them what they are. We’re not trying to move backward here.
In the moments I was processing all of this, I remember dropping to my knees and collapsing into the arms of my elders.
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Also, forcing someone to cut their hair is an assimilation effort that was used years ago at Native American boarding schools. “Killing the Indian” in a child changes future generations, and we have seen this story before.
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Denying my beautiful boy as his authentic self — with a hairstyle that wasn’t hurting anyone — is a poignant form of cultural erasure. It disrespects the heritage that we have been trying hard to preserve for generations.
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