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Tina McKim
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Birchwood Food Desert Fighter, disabled semi-hermit, artist,writer, snacker and abolitionist.
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6/ You can watch the entire 9-minute doc on YouTube… youtu.be/PWCrzM6dcYw?...
A visit to a homeless shelter for transgender Ugandans
YouTube video by Steven Thrasher
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:

🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)

🛑 Trans

🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)

www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)

gofundme.com/minorityshelters
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."

hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM