SN Désirée Cha
@sndesireecha.bsky.social
lightning + foam /she.hers/ writer. cis femme
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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
hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Fascism is a violent response to care crises. Care crises are economic crises. Economic crises are care crises.
How do we show up for care? How do we receive care? How do we give care? What are your barriers to receiving and giving care? What were you taught about care?
www.pbs.org/video/caregi...
How do we show up for care? How do we receive care? How do we give care? What are your barriers to receiving and giving care? What were you taught about care?
www.pbs.org/video/caregi...
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Fascism is a violent response to care crises. Care crises are economic crises. Economic crises are care crises.
How do we show up for care? How do we receive care? How do we give care? What are your barriers to receiving and giving care? What were you taught about care?
www.pbs.org/video/caregi...
How do we show up for care? How do we receive care? How do we give care? What are your barriers to receiving and giving care? What were you taught about care?
www.pbs.org/video/caregi...
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nobody knows better than a homeless person that fascism has been here and that systems of care were eroding well before 2025. we’ve lived collapse in real time.
September 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
nobody knows better than a homeless person that fascism has been here and that systems of care were eroding well before 2025. we’ve lived collapse in real time.
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as American as genocide
as American as homelessness
as American as antivaxxers
as American as fascism
as American as repealing Roe v Wade
as American as forever wars
as American as anti-Blackness
as American as child labor
as American as yt saviorism
as American as debt
as American as technofascism
as American as homelessness
as American as antivaxxers
as American as fascism
as American as repealing Roe v Wade
as American as forever wars
as American as anti-Blackness
as American as child labor
as American as yt saviorism
as American as debt
as American as technofascism
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
as American as genocide
as American as homelessness
as American as antivaxxers
as American as fascism
as American as repealing Roe v Wade
as American as forever wars
as American as anti-Blackness
as American as child labor
as American as yt saviorism
as American as debt
as American as technofascism
as American as homelessness
as American as antivaxxers
as American as fascism
as American as repealing Roe v Wade
as American as forever wars
as American as anti-Blackness
as American as child labor
as American as yt saviorism
as American as debt
as American as technofascism
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to be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
to be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
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I don't think people understand how executive function taxing it is to be homeless.
To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
“The impact of constantly trying to control the fight, flight or freeze that poverty evokes is way under-discussed.”
—Gabrielle Peters, 10 May 2025
@mssinenomine.bsky.social
—Gabrielle Peters, 10 May 2025
@mssinenomine.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I don't think people understand how executive function taxing it is to be homeless.
To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.
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Know how I say that adoptees aren't believed when reporting abuse? Even though our rates of abuse are so much higher?
Anyhoo quite a few of us are getting really sick of the shock re: SA as the current discourse.
Anyhoo quite a few of us are getting really sick of the shock re: SA as the current discourse.
The Atrocities You Ignore
Cause
The Atrocities You Notice
Cause
The Atrocities You Notice
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Know how I say that adoptees aren't believed when reporting abuse? Even though our rates of abuse are so much higher?
Anyhoo quite a few of us are getting really sick of the shock re: SA as the current discourse.
Anyhoo quite a few of us are getting really sick of the shock re: SA as the current discourse.
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Who do we care about and when and how much and for how long?
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Who do we care about and when and how much and for how long?
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Homelessness is a fundamental violation of the social contract. It is a policy failure, NOT a personal individual failure.
They’re coming for the most vulnerable. If you punch down, ask yourself why. & then consider that integrity, kindness, & interconnectedness are the true immutable life values.
They’re coming for the most vulnerable. If you punch down, ask yourself why. & then consider that integrity, kindness, & interconnectedness are the true immutable life values.
This is all lies, and I don’t know what else I can add: Human beings are being dehumanized as “disorder” to be managed, punished, or disappeared.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Homelessness is a fundamental violation of the social contract. It is a policy failure, NOT a personal individual failure.
They’re coming for the most vulnerable. If you punch down, ask yourself why. & then consider that integrity, kindness, & interconnectedness are the true immutable life values.
They’re coming for the most vulnerable. If you punch down, ask yourself why. & then consider that integrity, kindness, & interconnectedness are the true immutable life values.
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
1/2
“One of the most misunderstood slogans is ‘the personal is political’[, which,] as the Combahee River Collective told us[,] is intended to mean
1/2
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.
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
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.
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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,"