“7 Generations of Genetic Memory: Xinachtli to Xochtli” 36"x24" oil on canvas by Jake Prendez. 2018
I first painted a version of this 10 years ago. It was one of my first paintings. I wanted to revisit it with 10 years more painting experience. The idea is that the Mayan is holding the symbol for Seed (Xinachtli) which has bloomed into a Xochtli (flower in the girls hand) with us the 7th generation.
Hey everyone! ❤ So I have a really rad friend. Among other things, she’s helped me through my last inpatient psych stay by talking to me on the phone most nights and helping me find a last minute cat-sitter.
We have supported each other through quite a bit and I’m proud to count her as part of my disabled, queer, Jewish family. But she’s having a really rough time.
Her anxiety has worsened and she’s having a prolonged depressive episode. She’s been dealing with the stress of chronic illnesses, her job, and her mother, who is being homophobic and verbally abusive.
She’s taking leave under FMLA to try and get things together again. This means she will be getting a lot less money. She lives in a city with a high cost of living – the payouts aren’t enough to cover her rent, groceries, healthcare, and care for her two beloved cats.
This is the GoFundMe I’ve made, and if you want to support her and get a cool “Bureaucats not Bureaucrats” shirt out of it, go here 🙂 Thanks for any support!
So i’ve been debating coming on here to ask for help with this, but I can’t stand to see my cat in the pain that he’s in.
I’ve had my cat, Sunny, for around 10 years now, and he’s become a very important part of my life over that time. Currently, he has a problem with his eye that, because of lack of money, we have been unable to treat. Here he was a few years ago:
And here is him now:
As you may be able to see, his right eye has gotten very bad. It started out as what the vet thought were weird growths on his eyeball, around his pupil. We had went to a feline optometrist to learn it was glaucoma, so tried to treat it as such. But now it had progressed to a stage where he cannot see out of it at all, it sometimes starts bleeding, and had pretty much developed a huge scab over it that he sometimes tries to mess with cause it is an irritation to him, ending with him ripping it back open and causing him more pain.
The only thing we can do for him now is to have the eye removed and the lid sewn up (enucleation). The surgery is going to cost upward of $500. I have been attempting to put a bit away every now and then to pay for it, but with bills and other expenses around the house, my mother and I have had a hard time trying to procure the funds.
If anyone can help by donating to my PayPal or cashapp, it would be appreciated. I love Sunny, and hate for him to be in this kind of pain.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Still low on some supplies, really need to go food shopping, any help is greatly appreciated, miigwech (thank you).
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