MGRM, YMCA Malta, Moviment Graffitti and friends will be thrifting to fundraise for our LGBTQI+ siblings in Turkey and Syria.
Our community members will host stalls with clothes, books, art and more for you to thrift away at. Food will also be available. Everyone is welcome.
Later on, we will push the tables and dance our pent up frustrations away!
The earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria have left the diaspora across the world in shock. What might just be another news item for some of us in Malta is an indescribable trauma, the magnitude of which we can’t possibly understand. While there has been amazing international support we know that international aid does not reach everyone equally, because society doesn’t deem everyone equal. The politicians that oppress the LGBTQI+ community in Turkey and Syria are the same that have responded inadequately to the worst natural disaster to ever hit the region. Taxes raised for earthquake disaster relief are being misspent and the lack of disaster relief preparedness has cost too many lives.
This is why we are carefully researching the organisations to send money to. In the following days we will be introducing these organisations to you (if we can) and we guarantee that every cent raised will benefit the LGBTQI+ community in the region.
Massive thanks to Maori bar for offering to host us.