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andykhouri:

Commission a $20 sketch from Bongo’s Jason Ho to help pay legal fees of cheerleader who refused to cheer for her rapist
By Laura Hudson
In case you hadn’t heard the latest news to make you doubt the fundamental humanity of the people around you, several years ago a 16-year-old cheerleader from Silsbee High School in Texas was assaulted at a party by Rakheem Bolton, a basketball player and football star whom she says held her down and raped her. Bolton later pleaded to a charge of misdemeanor assault, but here’s the part that’s going to make you want to set things on fire: Not only did the school allow him back on the basketball team, they told the girl it was her responsibility to lay low, stay away from the lunchroom and not go to Homecoming. And when the girl refused to cheer specifically for her attacker at games — while still cheering for the team at large — Silsbee High School officials did something so fundamentally awful that they might as well be twisting their mustaches: They threw her off the cheerleading squad.She challenged the school in court and recently lost, so now in addition to suffering a horrendous assault, predictably being branded a “slut” in her community, and getting thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to shout “put it in” at her attacker (seriously), her family has been ordered has to pay $45,000 in legal fees to the school.Jason Ho, an illustrator and Assistant Editor at Bongo Comics wants to help, so he is drawing custom sketches at $20 a pop and donating the proceeds to the girl’s legal costs. They are both very attractive sketches and a small way to help someone who has been failed disgracefully over and over by the indecency and institutional cowardice of seemingly everyone around her.
Read more at ComicsAlliance.

I’m not really in a place where I can contribute much money to anything except lolapartment, but if you donate, drop me an ask and I’ll sketch you something?

Commission a $20 sketch from Bongo’s Jason Ho to help pay legal fees of cheerleader who refused to cheer for her rapist

By Laura Hudson

In case you hadn’t heard the latest news to make you doubt the fundamental humanity of the people around you, several years ago a 16-year-old cheerleader from Silsbee High School in Texas was assaulted at a party by Rakheem Bolton, a basketball player and football star whom she says held her down and raped her. Bolton later pleaded to a charge of misdemeanor assault, but here’s the part that’s going to make you want to set things on fire: Not only did the school allow him back on the basketball team, they told the girl it was her responsibility to lay low, stay away from the lunchroom and not go to Homecoming. And when the girl refused to cheer specifically for her attacker at games — while still cheering for the team at large — Silsbee High School officials did something so fundamentally awful that they might as well be twisting their mustaches: They threw her off the cheerleading squad.

She challenged the school in court and recently lost, so now in addition to suffering a horrendous assault, predictably being branded a “slut” in her community, and getting thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to shout “put it in” at her attacker (seriously), her family has been ordered has to pay $45,000 in legal fees to the school.

Jason Ho, an illustrator and Assistant Editor at Bongo Comics wants to help, so he is drawing custom sketches at $20 a pop and donating the proceeds to the girl’s legal costs. They are both very attractive sketches and a small way to help someone who has been failed disgracefully over and over by the indecency and institutional cowardice of seemingly everyone around her.

Read more at ComicsAlliance.

I’m not really in a place where I can contribute much money to anything except lolapartment, but if you donate, drop me an ask and I’ll sketch you something?

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Source: comicsalliance.com

So here is some serious business and a bit of a cry for help:

halleyboballey:

other-side-of-the-universe:

Today I finally stopped trying to pretend that everything is OK. My relationship with my husband is unhealthy. He is not physically abusive, but he is emotionally so. I am here with him in the state of Mississippi. I am from California. I need to go home. I need to be with friends and family, and I need to do it soon.

I am asking for a weird sort of help: I am going to be doing emergency commissions. Any amount of money you can spare will be returned with whatever sort of art you want. I don’t think I would be able to finish most of it until I’m back in California, but it would be a huge priority and I promise to complete each and every one.

I don’t feel comfortable asking for money without giving in return (I barely feel comfortable with asking for commissions under normal conditions), but I’m not going to pretend this isn’t a hand out. You would be doing me a huge service, and I will be repaying it in the only way I can - drawing things.

These would be watercolor paintings.

Almost all of the money I have made so far has gone into my joint bank account, and I don’t think I can trust him to give any of it back. So basically all I have to MY name is $30. A plane ticket from GPT to LAX is $430.

Please, this would mean so much to me.

There is no minimum requirement. Just whatever you can give = painting from me.

My email is universe-pants@hotmail.com — my paypal is linked to that account.

HEY EVERYBODY LOOK

Buy some really unbelievably fantastic art from this really great lady and help her out!

Samantha is one of the most prolific artists I’ve ever seen and she does the nicest watercolor paintings ever. Any amount you could give her for a painting would be a complete steal, and well worth your money.

Even if you can’t buy some art, reblogging this would probably help too! Get the word out and let people know this amazing artist is open for commissions!