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Emergency Eviction Fund for Maso

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Greetings Fam, I hope that even during all of this chaos you are well and safe. This Global Pandemic in addition to the uprising for Social Change has created a weight unlike anything else. My name is Maso, a 28 year old, queer person of color. I’am a community builder, an intersectionalist, an events producer (that funds all my events out of pocket), a community mediator, a nightlife professional, and most recently have been dedicating all my working hours to a new Real Estate Start-up. But above all of these things and hardest for me to say is I am deserving of stability, safety, and peace. COVID-19 has absolutely decimated Nightlife Industry which was my primary source of income. As of March 2020 Philadelphia initiated a lockdown that even under my best circumstances I am not sure I could have prepared for. It’s been an absolutely massive hardship shifting into this isolation and navigating how I was going to make it through. The hardest, has been the very tumultuous relationship I have with my landlord. During COVID she’s showed up unannounced, harassed me via phone on a nearly daily basis demanding payment, has dragged her feet on every public program I applied for, has sent threatening unofficial texts to me about eviction, attempted to have me sign documents that were due to me at the signing of my lease 2 years ago. Unfortunately due to the moratorium lifting in Philadelphia she is now pursuing that eviction. It is important to me to note my due diligence. While the majority of my hours are committed to working the start-up I helped found (if you’ve worked for a start up before you know it’s very hard work) I have taken up odd jobs to try and make money. I’ve applied for every bit of public assistance made available to me and at least have food benefits but I have not received any monetary assistance from Pandemic Unemployment Assistance despite being accepted into the program. I’ve applied for every public program I am eligible for, for rental assistance including CARES (which has yet to approve applications despite the moratorium ending). At this point I am not sure what I should be trying to fix first, the amount of back rent I owe or the fact that I will need a place to live because I can’t handle the harassment from my landlord while trying to make it day to day, hour to hour. I wish I could ask for help with both but I only have the heart to ask for one. I am not ready to re-enter homelessness after dealing with it in my youth and fighting hard to become a self-sustained and independent person. I just can’t stare down that scope while fighting with my mental/emotional health on a daily basis, managing this isolation and being alone, being without income, and consistently processing the amount of black death and injustice going on in our world. I wish I could tell you I had a strategy to repay or provide incentives, but i don’t. What I can do is make a commitment to keep fighting in the best ways I know how and continuing to use my energies constructively towards a future in our community that is truly intersectional and for the betterment of us all. I know everyone is in hardship right now so it is selfish to be asking. But please if you can help me get some of this weight off of my shoulders it really would make a major change in my world. I appreciate you unendingly. Wishing you courage and strength as you navigate your world. I thank you. - Maso
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Donations 

  • Anonymous
    • $100 
    • 4 yrs
  • Kent Dwyer
    • $38 
    • 4 yrs
  • L Miller
    • $25 
    • 4 yrs
  • edward kornegay
    • $40 
    • 4 yrs
  • Zaira Montgomery
    • $10 
    • 4 yrs
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Maso Kibble
Organizer
Raised $3,732 from 79 donations
Philadelphia, PA
Tahnee Jackson
Team member
Raised $325 from 8 donations
This team raised $6,580 from 111 other donations.

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