We can't change what we refuse to see.
I just published a 20-minute documentary essay on YouTube — "The Invisible Struggle" — and I need you to know what it actually cost to make it.
This film covers four years of housing instability: the shelters, the broken systems, the family silences, what it means to be queer in spaces that were never designed with people like me in mind — and what mental health looks like when the system stabilizes you just enough to send you back out.
This is the most transparent thing I've ever put out. Every chapter is something I carried alone for a long time. Now it's on screen.
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/j_MrB5o2V0E
If this met you somewhere real — if it cracked something open or made you feel less alone — you can keep this work going right here. Every dollar goes toward building something that didn't exist when I needed it.
Thank you for being part of this.
— Traie
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