#formerlyincarcerated — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #formerlyincarcerated, aggregated by home.social.
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Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration
After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.
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Things are getting dire again for Jonmeshia. The father of one of her children has persistently worked to file fraudulent reports to keep her trapped in a cycle of benefit cancelations, appeals, and renewals. The latest fund upper attached to my teaching with Executive Dysfunction weabinar is stalled out. If I had focused this one on working with/out AI it would be doing better but I'm not ready for that one yet.
For those of you who don't know, Jonmeshia is a single Black mother of 3 who used to live local to me. I used to help her out with her kids and errands and such but she lost her housing and had to move back to Michigan. I have organized several small fund raisers to get her back in housing and keep her there. She is at risk of going to jail again due to persistent abusive harassment from her ex.
I'm going to link the page and I want people to also pay attention to these asks. If I can get people committed to working out some specific problems Jonmeshia faces in a lack of community, we might be able to stabilize her life.
Other ways that you can volunteer to support Jonmeshia, especially if you are local to Kalamazoo:
1. Volunteer to help find suitable GED programs for Jonmeshia, and help Jonmeshia apply. The program must provide child care or there must be free child care available to support Jonmeshia while she is in class.
2. Help Jonmeshia find child care for respite that she can trust.
3. Help Jonmeshia determine if her youngest child is elligible for the A&D waiver, and help her get on the list. -
Shout out to employers willing to give #FormerlyIncarcerated people a chance. You do good for individuals, their families, and society as a whole.
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I hosted a webinar on Hacking Executive Function for Neurodivergent Burnouts.
I have now uploaded a captioned recording of the session to PeerTube and YouTube.
https://diode.zone/w/xneNwhjAE5xjRTPUygoDus
The event was free but there was an optional fundraiser for my friend, who is a Black formerly incarcerated single mother of 3. If you enjoy this recording please contribute. She has to move next month and needs support with moving expenses.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/christmas-and-furniture-for-me-and-my-babies
Hashtag Soup
#Neurodivergent #ExecutiveFunction #ExecutivelyFucked #EFThis #MetaCogSquad #webinar #Fundraiser #GfM #FormerlyIncarcerated #PeerTube
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CW: (Longish) Introduction
Hi all,
Since I just switched instances, here’s my #introduction:
I’m a roughly 50-yr old white guy living in the PNW of the US. I’ve found my niche in construction for nearly 4 decades, mostly as a #union carpenter, most recently as a #DataAnalyst (construction’s rough for folks who are not cis/het white dudes, and I’ve always tried to make it better. I haven’t succeeded so far. It still sucks. Sorry guys). Of my family and friends, I’m one of very few cis/het folks. I live with my GF, our 3 #CatOverlords, and 3 of 4 teen offspring. I’m an #atheist, and I’m not generally a joiner, but I joined #TST a while ago because of their work #AgainstForcedBirth and #AgainstHate. The 7 tenants are pretty dope as well.
I was a red-diaper baby; my parents were #communist, #pagan, #hippy, #radical. They’re literally rad. We were poor. I’ve experienced years of #homelessness, I’ve struggled with #addiction, and I’m #FormerlyIncarcerated. I’ve been clean for a long time. Oh, and I can personally verify #ACAB. Facts
I’ve been thinking a lot, lately and always, about inequalities. There’re the ones I’ve known about and have struggled with my whole life: I am and have always been #AntiFascist, #AntiRacist, #AntiCapitalist, #Feminist, #ProChoice, for #LGBTQ rights, for #Reparations, for #LandBack, and we are absolutely in a #ClimateEmergency. But there’s a new one (to me) lately: It’s really gross that capitalists are shifting the pandemic burden of #COVID onto workers and poor people through inaction, misinformation, disinformation, and direct action. I find it obvious that the ethical thing to do is to protect those who are vulnerable, and who I won’t be able to identify and may never see, by avoiding infection myself, and pushing for safe spaces with clean air. Vaccines are great, but they’re not enough. #CovidIsAirborne. #WearAMask. Make it an N95 or better. This is not hard, and becomes more effective as more of us do it. So do it.
I’ve shared more and been more open since moving to mastodon a couple weeks ago than I ever have on SM. IDK, it just seems more welcoming here. Historically, I don’t post much. That seems to be changing. We shall see.
Anyways, I'm excited to be joining this community, and I'm looking forward to getting to know some folks over here!
Peace
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CW: A fun free virtual webinar for neurodivergent scholars, writers, and creators, with optional fundraiser for formerly incarcerated mother
On Wednesday, November 30th, at 7pm EST, I will be hosting an online #webinar for #neurodivergentAcademic burnouts on #ExecutiveFunction, #Metacognition, and Hacking yourself to Get Shit Done. Free and Public with optional fundraiser.
https://forms.gle/PBWLapBYSRZKTpTa8
The fundraiser is for my friend who is a #formerlyIncarcerated #disabledWhileBlack mother on #section8 and #foodstamps who has been living in an apartment with no furniture for 9 months and needs help with transportation to and from hospital for her #medicallyComplex infant. Also it's for Christmas money because toys for tots is trash.
I am an openly autistic and disabled academic, I study executive function, metacognition, technology, and Autistic Technocultures. I am good at teaching you how to love yourself in a way that makes your work love you back.
This is not a girl boss productivity capitalist bootlicking sesh. This is about how your brain works and how it's not "borked"
