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Hi,
I'm syr!
I'm a strange transsexual non-binary fae thing studying to become a powerful weird community-situated and oriented amalgamation of a librarian/archivist/storykeeper. I'm also a witch and an incredibly burnt out queer youth student community organizer. I'm a white-passing person with irish/Choctaw/german ancestries.
Six years ago I moved to the PNW to escape painful legacies of childhood, colonial and familal trauma.My art and feelings are messy sprawling projects that have helped me survive and flourish.
Now, I need your help to make living my life now here feel more possible and true to who I am! Navigating bureaucracy and the world with my dead name and also feeling precariously uncertain about when my life while eventually align deeply worsens my mental illness and faith in my continued existence.
I'm from parts of texas, that are the ancestral terriotires of the Apache, Comanche and Tonkawa territories, amongst others, but have been living in so-called vancouver, on the unceded and occupied territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Wautheth peoples for the last six years.
Four years ago i changed my name, and two years I began hormonally transitioning. in the last two years, I decided I wanted to stay living here, and that I can no longer bear the pain of having a name that hurts me present throughout all of the scattered paperwork of my life, that i have to continually confront.
I need help navigating signficant bureaucracy, fees, and paperwork that will let me you use the name that lights up my heart and stay in the communities where I have been loving, living, playing, working, changing.
I'd like support in updating my passport, texas id, and other documentation to reflect my identity. To do so I have to go back to Texas and file with the court. I can only go back briefly because of working multiple jobs and being a full time student, so there is also a much higher fee for that quick passport turnaround. I'm planning to gon a brief trip, and do everything on a very tight turn around.
Any funds above & beyond will be split fifty/fifty towards saving for my immigration costs and donations to Unis'tot'en Camp.
~Estimated Costs~
~$250-$300 for filing with the county court USD
$11 for driver's
license replacement USD
$140 for passport renewal application
USD
$60 for expedited passport USD
$100 for updated study
permit CAD
$15 for fingerprinting, required to apply for a name
change USD
$15 for passport photo USD
$25 for new university
card CAD
~$20 for authenticated copies of certificate of name
change (used to do everything else once one changes their name). USD
~fundrazr fees
=around $850 for total name change costs
also~ if you aren't able to give or it doesn't feel like the right
thing right now I would love an affirmation that is ok to ask for help
<3
there is also a list of other folks who need help in the
updates section, that I'm hoping to signal boost that you might wanna
look at!
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