RAFFLE FUNDRAISER FOR LYON MARTIN
Want to help #SaveLyonMartin AND win excellent prizes from amazing local vendors?!
Lyon-Martin is raising funds to expand access to their Mental Health Services. Lyon-Martin provides therapy, psychiatry, case management, overdose prevention, addiction treatment, and crisis intervention services; but the need far exceeds capacity. Given all the trauma and grief our communities have been holding (for generations) and the unprecedented increase in attacks on our rights and livelihoods, we are witnessing an unprecedented increase in demand for care, and the severity and complexity of symptoms we are seeing feels different than before... we’re in a constant state of crisis as a community and we need help, now. Please help us raise funds to hire more TGI & BIPOC community care providers so we can meet the needs of our people. It’s a matter of life and death.<3<3
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#1 Del LaGrace Volcano: Original photograph, signed ($1500 value)
About: For over 30 years, the international photographer Del LaGrace Volcano has made a consistent subject of gender variance, sexual connectedness, and body mutations. Volcano's photography has staged the constructedness of gender and the rich diversity of body morphologies available in ways that have resonated deeply with -- and moreover that have often preceded, influenced and crucially brought together -- emerging lesbian, queer, trans and intersex theories. Volcano is exceptional as a photographer and thinker in being concerned to show gender/sex as both highly performative and intimately embodied.
#2 The Queer Gym: 28 Day Challenge at the Queer Gym three workouts a week with a fitness coach, a personalized meal plan regular accountability check-ins to help you meet your fitness goals ($600 Value).
About: At the Queer Gym, there are no mirrors, no gym creepers, no mansplaining, and no body shaming. Just a supportive community of folx with diverse backgrounds.
#3 Craig Calderwood: Multiple Art Pieces ($400 value)
About: A self-taught artist, Craig Calderwood’s intricate and decorative works are rendered through a personal vernacular of symbols and patterns. Recalling the private languages that underground communities of queer and trans people used for safety for decades, Calderwood develops these patterns and symbols though research into history, personal narratives, and pop cultural moments. They then arrange them into constellations to tell stories both personal and fantasized.
#4 Meehaun Glasper-Wade: 1x Acrylic on Canvas Painting (20”x10”) “Sonic Shock” ($400 value)
About: Meehaun is a Black trans man and abstract artist based in Oakland. Using texture, motion, color, and rhythmic lines, he paints what each viewer can interpret for themselves. He is inspired by traveling, nature, community, relationships, music, and the senses.
#5 Mosswood Meltdown: 2x Tickets to both days July 1 & 2, 2023 ($353 value)
About: Mosswood Meltown at Mosswood Park in Oakland is hosted by John Waters and will feature bands like Le Tigre, Twompsax, ESG, 5678’s, Tina & the Total Babes, Rondelles, Quintron, Ms. Pussycat, Morgan & the Organ Donors, Cumgirls, Memo PST, Bratmobile, Gravy Train!!!, Mika Miko, JJ Fad, Avengers, Teddy Bear Orchestra, Snooper, Brower, Warp, & MORE
#6 Money Witch: 1x one-on-one intuitive finance coaching session ($350 value)
About: Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka the Money Witch, brings capitalism-critical, shame-free education to healers, hustlers, and creatives in order to catalyze change in their financial lives. She believes healing our finances will bring blessing to our lives, our lineages, and our communities.
#7 Foreign Cinema: 2x $100 Gift Certificates ($200 value)
About: Evolving menus. Sensual Environment. Champagne and Oysters on the Half Shell. Since 1999. Foreign Cinema remains a magical destination for local, national and international visitors as San Francisco’s most enduring dining centers. A San Francisco Chronicle “Top 100 Restaurant” for twenty consecutive years, Chefs Gayle Pirie and John Clark’s collective visions weave food, wine, cocktails, film, and art gallery into one harmonious ambiance.
#8 Fig & Clover: 1x Haircut by Lauren ($175 value)
About: Fig & Clover is a boutique salon based in Temescal, Oakland. We specialize in balayage, curly hair, lived in hair styles and vibrant colors. Lauren is passionate about exploring her clients' personal style and constantly pursuing outside education to bring inspiration and creative energy back into the Salon.
#9 Fig & Clover: 1x Nail Art Session with Hannah ($160 value)
About: Hannah is a queer nail tech specializing in gel nail art & dry manicures. She is also on the Board of Lyon-Martin!
#10 ODC Dance Theater: 2x tickets to ODC’s Summer Sampler event July 20-22, includes ODC’s LGBTQIA+ Night on July 22 ($200 value)
About: Founded in 1971, ODC Dance was one of the first American companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility (an appreciation for pedestrian movement) into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.
#11 Double Prize Plant Package:
Witchcraft Apothecary: 1x Bundle of Tinctures focused on alleviating anxiety, depression, and gender dysphoria ($100 value)
About: Violet Moon is a certified clinical Herbalist, apothecarist, and medicine maker in Oakland: occupied Chochenyo Ohlone Territory.
Tender Gardener: 1x $75 Gift Certificate for Plants!
About: The Tender Gardener is an online indoor house plants and local flower shop serving the San Francisco Bay Area with contactless delivery and pick up and custom plant design services.
#12 Double Prize Haircut + Lunch on Valencia St. Package:
Glamarama SF: 1x Haircut by Jude
About: Glama-Rama! Salon is over 30 years old and has resided in the mission district since the 90s. We specialize in color and cuts of all varieties and gender affirming, LGBTQ+ services. We are a diverse team of stylists that want to make your hair dreams come true!
Milk SF: 1x $20 Gift Certificate
About: Milk SF is a Queer Community Café on Valencia Street in SF adjacent to Glamarama. They are dedicated to inclusivity and innovative coffee. Milk SF is your neighborhood hub for nitro coffee, pastries, food, local art, drag shows and more!
#13 Double Trans Masc Package ;)
Both& Apparel: 1 $50 Gift Certificate
About: Both& is a Transmasculine and Non-Binary Fashion Brand With Inclusive Design
ForThem: 1 $52 Gift Certificate
About: ForThem redefines wellness for queer and gender expansive folks with the products and services our community deserves
#14 Ratskin Records: Local Musicians Merch Bundle ($100 value)
About: Ratskin Records is a collective record label and archival imprint championing decolonial experimental music centered in the Bay Area. We focus on LGBTQ+, Black, Native, POC, and disabled artists who create work that is sonically and politically pushing boundaries toward liberation. We work together to create an alternative to an industry that has historically exploited and devalued artist labor and requires artists to exhaust themselves to fulfill their life’s passion. We see the work of decolonial artists as world-building activism that centers empathy and basic human needs. The crux of our work is centered in engaging the healing power of sound for communities in struggle.
#15 Xara Thustra/STOP MEN: 1x $100 Gift Certificate for STOP MEN merchandise
About: Xara Thustra is a Bay Area queer artist and activist who defies categories with their anti-capitalist and revolutionary art. Since moving to San Francisco in 1995, Xara, a self-taught, and hard-working artist, cast spells with their giant, colorful graffiti on rooftops and in the streets calling for: Heart Over Capital, No More Prisons, Stop America and Free The Free. Xara paired up with artist Monica Canilao to form MCXT, a creative partnership making collaborative work that is both magical and rooted in their diy and radical principles. MCXT have painted murals internationally celebrating queer spaces in New York, Mexico and at SF’s historic queer bar The Stud.
#16 Ali Samantha Tattoo: 1x 1 hour Tattoo ($200 value)
About: Ali Samantha is an experienced tattoo artist working out of FTW Tattoo in Oakland.
#17 Vi Zer0 at Modern Electric Tattoo: 1x 2 hour Tattoo ($200 value)
About: Vidal X Zero is a trans non-binary artist who specializes in fine line black and grey tattoos. Vi’s journey to become a tattoo artist officially began in 2021, following a lifetime of interest in tattoos. Under the guidance of Olivia Britz and Modern Electric Tattoo, Vi is able to combine their interest in illustration, texture, body modification, goth aesthetic, and BDSM.
#18 AlexisMakesPhotographs: 1x 1 hour Portrait Photo Session resulting in 10+ edited photos ($400 value)
About: Alexis is an award-winning photographer and portraitist and is also a therapist at Lyon-Martin!
#19 Double Leather Bundle
Mr S Leather: Mystery Merch Package
About: For over 40 years, Mr S Leather has been the world's forerunner in the fetish industry. They bring you the absolute best in top-quality bondage, leather, rubber, and neoprene clothing, as well as amazing sex toys!
Leatharcore: Mystery Leather
About: Apaulo Hart is a trans leather fashion designer and innovator. He constructs each leather creation by hand and designs for all genders, outsiders, kinksters, and performers. He has over 10 years sewing and design experience and creates pieces of wearable art that will not only blow your mind but last your lifetime.
#20 Mother Bar: 4 Drink Tickets
About: Just a little women and femme centered queer bar in San Francisco's Mission District.
#21 Good hot: 2 Gift Certificates ($240 value)
About: Good hot is a small bayside sauna operation. We have saunas available for private rental and a beach for cold plunging at point San Pablo in Richmond. Good hot is a worker-owned cooperative that aims to share the delight of communal bathing with our east bay community of all races, gender expressions, sexualities and backgrounds.
#22 Ace Morgan Fitness: 1x session of personal training + 3 classes ($200 value)
About: Ace is a trans personal trainer with decades of experience in helping trans people and people of all sizes gain confidence and competence in fitness.
