SN Désirée Cha
@sndesireecha.bsky.social
lightning + foam /she.hers/ writer. cis femme
Pinned
from Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social :
“One of the most misunderstood slogans is ‘the personal is political’[, which,] as the Combahee River Collective told us[,] is intended to mean
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“One of the most misunderstood slogans is ‘the personal is political’[, which,] as the Combahee River Collective told us[,] is intended to mean
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February 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM
from Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social :
“One of the most misunderstood slogans is ‘the personal is political’[, which,] as the Combahee River Collective told us[,] is intended to mean
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“One of the most misunderstood slogans is ‘the personal is political’[, which,] as the Combahee River Collective told us[,] is intended to mean
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please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
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please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
February 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it’s free to share and repost.
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
10 weeks since Esmé died.
February 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
10 weeks since Esmé died.
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“I'm holding space for everyone that's left to pick up the pieces while they watch those that harmed them prosper and thrive.”
credit: @mtmvcommunity.bsky.social
credit: @mtmvcommunity.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“I'm holding space for everyone that's left to pick up the pieces while they watch those that harmed them prosper and thrive.”
credit: @mtmvcommunity.bsky.social
credit: @mtmvcommunity.bsky.social
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Last year the Supreme Court ruled that punishing a person for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go, doesn't violate the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
In the year since the decision, cities have passed nearly 220 bills criminalizing unhoused people.
In the year since the decision, cities have passed nearly 220 bills criminalizing unhoused people.
One Year Since Grants Pass: Tracking the Criminalization of Homelessness | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Last year the Supreme Court ruled that punishing a person for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go, doesn't violate the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.
In the year since the decision, cities have passed nearly 220 bills criminalizing unhoused people.
In the year since the decision, cities have passed nearly 220 bills criminalizing unhoused people.
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This is what I fled with Esmé. This is why her acute heart failure and death hurt even more. We had just gotten out of there. I was finally able to keep her safer.
I am homeless. I need people who uplift me. People who abuse homeless women & ESA dogs with nowhere to go are the worst of the worst
I am homeless. I need people who uplift me. People who abuse homeless women & ESA dogs with nowhere to go are the worst of the worst
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is what I fled with Esmé. This is why her acute heart failure and death hurt even more. We had just gotten out of there. I was finally able to keep her safer.
I am homeless. I need people who uplift me. People who abuse homeless women & ESA dogs with nowhere to go are the worst of the worst
I am homeless. I need people who uplift me. People who abuse homeless women & ESA dogs with nowhere to go are the worst of the worst
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i won’t get all of the likes or traction that Gwen Snyder did.
i can’t even fully fund an over year-old crowdfund as a survivor and having fled recent DV this past Nov. i cut my teeth on community organizing. i was very good at it. still homeless. Esmé’s still dead.
but yes.
i can’t even fully fund an over year-old crowdfund as a survivor and having fled recent DV this past Nov. i cut my teeth on community organizing. i was very good at it. still homeless. Esmé’s still dead.
but yes.
the facts are:
people do not believe survivors.
there is a sickly, guilty embarrassment, a sort of, "why are you making a big stink out of nothing?" blame implied.
it's the emergence of denial, white supremacist racial capitalist patriarchy, and rape culture.
it's why people don't speak out.
people do not believe survivors.
there is a sickly, guilty embarrassment, a sort of, "why are you making a big stink out of nothing?" blame implied.
it's the emergence of denial, white supremacist racial capitalist patriarchy, and rape culture.
it's why people don't speak out.
February 3, 2026 at 12:03 AM
i won’t get all of the likes or traction that Gwen Snyder did.
i can’t even fully fund an over year-old crowdfund as a survivor and having fled recent DV this past Nov. i cut my teeth on community organizing. i was very good at it. still homeless. Esmé’s still dead.
but yes.
i can’t even fully fund an over year-old crowdfund as a survivor and having fled recent DV this past Nov. i cut my teeth on community organizing. i was very good at it. still homeless. Esmé’s still dead.
but yes.
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people who experience violence, rape, and harm reserve the right to support and real community care. instead, society expects that we shoulder the costs of long-term—and often disabling—health effects of environmental insults, then blames us for our poverty and our failing health.
August 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
people who experience violence, rape, and harm reserve the right to support and real community care. instead, society expects that we shoulder the costs of long-term—and often disabling—health effects of environmental insults, then blames us for our poverty and our failing health.
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mutual aid is disability justice.
on track for grad school apps (deadline 2/1).
job-hunting since Feb ‘25. temp paid gig April-Jun ‘25. temp stay ends 1/31.
it took 5 months to get car title. poverty means waiting.
thank you. please look out for each other.
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V $SNDesiree
i miss Esmé
on track for grad school apps (deadline 2/1).
job-hunting since Feb ‘25. temp paid gig April-Jun ‘25. temp stay ends 1/31.
it took 5 months to get car title. poverty means waiting.
thank you. please look out for each other.
V SNDesiree
V $SNDesiree
i miss Esmé
Donate to Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness, organized by Sam Dylan Finch
Dear community,
The story of what my friend has endured i… Sam Dylan Finch needs your support for Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness
gofund.me
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 AM
mutual aid is disability justice.
on track for grad school apps (deadline 2/1).
job-hunting since Feb ‘25. temp paid gig April-Jun ‘25. temp stay ends 1/31.
it took 5 months to get car title. poverty means waiting.
thank you. please look out for each other.
V SNDesiree
V $SNDesiree
i miss Esmé
on track for grad school apps (deadline 2/1).
job-hunting since Feb ‘25. temp paid gig April-Jun ‘25. temp stay ends 1/31.
it took 5 months to get car title. poverty means waiting.
thank you. please look out for each other.
V SNDesiree
V $SNDesiree
i miss Esmé
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Désirée is struggling to survive.
Please contribute. Those of us who cannot put our bodies on the streets can help the cause by providing mutual aid.
Please contribute. Those of us who cannot put our bodies on the streets can help the cause by providing mutual aid.
please support Désirée!
i am homeless. i am an immigrant. all i have is a car to live in. i do not want to be killed.
gofund.me/fe653b936
gofund.me/fe653b936
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Désirée is struggling to survive.
Please contribute. Those of us who cannot put our bodies on the streets can help the cause by providing mutual aid.
Please contribute. Those of us who cannot put our bodies on the streets can help the cause by providing mutual aid.
it’s free to share and repost.
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
February 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it’s free to share and repost.
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
please support a queer woman of color survivor & immigrant get housed.
it’s bitterly cold outside. cars aren’t meant for living in.
hoping to raise $5K to get & stay indoors.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/0d99e6f01
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it’s been nearly a week since the last donation. please consider boosting and helping this year-old fundraiser finally meet its goal. it’s only 68% there.
sharing is free.
homeless in winter.
survival depends on mutual aid.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/78aefc5a8
sharing is free.
homeless in winter.
survival depends on mutual aid.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/78aefc5a8
February 6, 2026 at 10:33 AM
it’s been nearly a week since the last donation. please consider boosting and helping this year-old fundraiser finally meet its goal. it’s only 68% there.
sharing is free.
homeless in winter.
survival depends on mutual aid.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/78aefc5a8
sharing is free.
homeless in winter.
survival depends on mutual aid.
V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/78aefc5a8
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please support Désirée!
i am homeless. i am an immigrant. all i have is a car to live in. i do not want to be killed.
gofund.me/fe653b936
gofund.me/fe653b936
Donate to Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness, organized by Sam Dylan Finch
Dear community,
The story of what my friend has endured i… Sam Dylan Finch needs your support for Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness
gofund.me
January 12, 2026 at 6:03 AM
please support Désirée!
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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Well, I was going to move my newsletter hauntologies out of Substack anyway and now I got more of an excuse to speed that up.
“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Well, I was going to move my newsletter hauntologies out of Substack anyway and now I got more of an excuse to speed that up.
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made this because I keep seeing people go "cooking at home is SO EASY. here is one of my favorite easy meals: first, chop five kinds of vegetables,"
thread of minimal effort healthy-ish meals in case this is helpful for anyone:
February 7, 2026 at 6:50 AM
made this because I keep seeing people go "cooking at home is SO EASY. here is one of my favorite easy meals: first, chop five kinds of vegetables,"
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Timeline of Systemic Racism Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, by Stanford University Libraries (2021)
exhibits.stanford.edu
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
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“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
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She would have wanted you to succeed, here or not... Make her proud, okay ?
January 30, 2026 at 3:00 AM
She would have wanted you to succeed, here or not... Make her proud, okay ?
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my graduate school application is in.
Esmé, my beloved ESA dog of 8 years, you were supposed to go to grad school with me. you helped me get this done.
thank you, Esmé. i love you.
Esmé, my beloved ESA dog of 8 years, you were supposed to go to grad school with me. you helped me get this done.
thank you, Esmé. i love you.
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 PM
my graduate school application is in.
Esmé, my beloved ESA dog of 8 years, you were supposed to go to grad school with me. you helped me get this done.
thank you, Esmé. i love you.
Esmé, my beloved ESA dog of 8 years, you were supposed to go to grad school with me. you helped me get this done.
thank you, Esmé. i love you.
The Department of War is quietly building a network of concentration camps for the US regime.
A massive Navy contract, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion to build out this concentration camp network for 47.
migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
A massive Navy contract, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion to build out this concentration camp network for 47.
migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
![Migrant Insider article screenshot.
Text reads:
“How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps
SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger.
[By] PABLO MANRÍQUEZ
FEB 01, 2026”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ltsziuodekvpalwz7r6x44c/bafkreiebg76jlwnlp6vets7ajbiphvzequfgj6tajujtcysc53sj7oydmm@jpeg)
February 7, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The Department of War is quietly building a network of concentration camps for the US regime.
A massive Navy contract, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion to build out this concentration camp network for 47.
migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
A massive Navy contract, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion to build out this concentration camp network for 47.
migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
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Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.
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Indigenous leaders from across Polynesia released the text of a landmark treaty recognizing whales as legal persons & ancestral beings, a move that supporters say could reshape global debates over ocean governance, conservation and Indigenous sovereignty. insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...
How a ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans Could Change Worldviews - Inside Climate News
Māori scientist Daniel Hikuroa reflects on an Indigenous-led declaration recognizing whales as legal persons, challenging the foundations of ocean governance.
insideclimatenews.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Indigenous leaders from across Polynesia released the text of a landmark treaty recognizing whales as legal persons & ancestral beings, a move that supporters say could reshape global debates over ocean governance, conservation and Indigenous sovereignty. insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...