deya ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐

I’ve been overjoyed & overwhelmed by the love & support I’ve received. Hearing from elementary school classmates, friends from my pressplay stan twitter days, and people I’ve never met has filled me with so much joy.

I’ve used all the donated money to cover housing & essential bills for the next few months, which has relieved so much stress. My next obstacle (besides surgery & radiation) is keeping my Medi-Cal coverage while looking for a job. Having to choose between affordable healthcare & a living wage shows how sick our society is.

This sickness is called capitalism, a global system that forces most people to work for wages, overworked just to make corporate owners (capitalists) richer. They decide our hours, who gets hired and fired, how dangerous our jobs are, and how much profit they squeeze from us. We work 40+ hours and multiple jobs to make ends meet, while they buy private jets & islands and destroy our planet.

At first I felt ashamed to publicly ask for money. But that feeling, too, is a product of this society. Before capitalism imposed its hyper-individualism, tearing communities apart with wars and gentrification, it was normal for neighbors to help each other. Let’s bring back community care and resource-sharing.

You’ve shown me there is hope in humanity. We can change society, but we can’t rely solely on politicians, even good ones (the Zohran Mamdanis of today and tomorrow). Deep change needs ordinary people organizing into a mass movement! You don’t have to be an activist to organize. Talking to neighbors and coworkers about the billionaire-run system we’re trapped in (for now!), speaking up for one another - that is organizing. I know we can do it because I’ve FELT the empowerment of the 200+ people who helped me these past two weeks. You held me up when I was down, so we can extend this love to more people, for a better society.

We have everything to lose and a world to win. I’ll see you guys after my surgery.

all the love, Deya

so many people i could post, here are the FEW !!! (i was thinking of doing a video combining all this but my surgery prep has been so busy so!! if you’re not here, just know I am thinking about you and love y