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asatomuraki explains:
Now, once again, the fact that I am not in this position is pure luck, the luck that my uterus, for all its bitching and moaning, has not started trying to kill me outright, and the luck that--because I am married to a person who has the right kind of job*--I have health insurance. Now,hominysnark's bad luck wrt her uterus is pretty much just that: bad fucking luck. But the fact that she's without health insurance, and therefore without healthcare when she needs it, because of our country's politics--it makes me angry, and it makes me sad.
And it makes me want to help.
If you feel the same way, here are three options:
1. Follow the link toasatomuraki's post and click the PayPal Donate button.
2.hominysnark's website is F-Bod Studios. Buy something from her.
3. Bid on The Bone Key!
Starting Friday and running through Monday, I will be auctioning off a signed copy of The Bone Key, plus signed manuscript copies (i.e., print outs) of the four published but uncollected Booth stories: "The Replacement," "White Charles," "The World Without Sleep," and "The Yellow Dressing Gown." The auction will start basically whenever I manage to haul myself out of bed tomorrow (i.e., NOT EARLY), and it will end seventy-two hours later at the same time on Monday. This, I hope, will give both people whose internet access is primarily M-F and people whose internet time is primarily Sat/Sun a chance to bid.
The winning bidder then donates via PayPal and sends me a copy of the email receipt, along with his/her mailing address and other necessary information (do you want the book and mss personalized? if so, to whom?). Book and mss will then go out as soon as I can get to the post office. I will ship anywhere in the world.
I think that covers it, but if I've left out some important piece of information, please ask! And please spread the word.
ETA: Yeah, I did leave something out. Bidding will start at $15. If it goes over $100, I will also mail the winning bidder a manuscript copy of the next Booth story I sell, whatever and whenever that will be.
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*Likehominysnark, I have a job, thank you.
Feb. 26, 2010: For some reason, this post is attracting all the weight-loss spam in the world. Therefore, I am disabling comments.
asatomuraki explains:
Why doesn't she have health insurance? Because she's self-employed, and as many self-employed creative people (she's an artist and writer - full disclosure, she writes for GC) know all too well, when you have to choose between eating and having a place to sleep or having health insurance, the health insurance loses. [...]
She needs $2700.00 for the operation, or she has to wait for her condition to become life-threatening. (It will get there long before she could save up that much, especially since she has $8,000.00 in medical bills from just having it diagnosed.) See, she falls in that sweet spot between having enough income to have health insurance or pay for health care herself and being poor enough to qualify for any sort of break from providers or government program.
Now, once again, the fact that I am not in this position is pure luck, the luck that my uterus, for all its bitching and moaning, has not started trying to kill me outright, and the luck that--because I am married to a person who has the right kind of job*--I have health insurance. Now,
hominysnark's bad luck wrt her uterus is pretty much just that: bad fucking luck. But the fact that she's without health insurance, and therefore without healthcare when she needs it, because of our country's politics--it makes me angry, and it makes me sad.And it makes me want to help.
If you feel the same way, here are three options:
1. Follow the link to
asatomuraki's post and click the PayPal Donate button.2.
hominysnark's website is F-Bod Studios. Buy something from her.3. Bid on The Bone Key!
Starting Friday and running through Monday, I will be auctioning off a signed copy of The Bone Key, plus signed manuscript copies (i.e., print outs) of the four published but uncollected Booth stories: "The Replacement," "White Charles," "The World Without Sleep," and "The Yellow Dressing Gown." The auction will start basically whenever I manage to haul myself out of bed tomorrow (i.e., NOT EARLY), and it will end seventy-two hours later at the same time on Monday. This, I hope, will give both people whose internet access is primarily M-F and people whose internet time is primarily Sat/Sun a chance to bid.
The winning bidder then donates via PayPal and sends me a copy of the email receipt, along with his/her mailing address and other necessary information (do you want the book and mss personalized? if so, to whom?). Book and mss will then go out as soon as I can get to the post office. I will ship anywhere in the world.
I think that covers it, but if I've left out some important piece of information, please ask! And please spread the word.
ETA: Yeah, I did leave something out. Bidding will start at $15. If it goes over $100, I will also mail the winning bidder a manuscript copy of the next Booth story I sell, whatever and whenever that will be.
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hominysnark, I have a job, thank you.Feb. 26, 2010: For some reason, this post is attracting all the weight-loss spam in the world. Therefore, I am disabling comments.
