Get Intimate with Jason: Care in San Francisco & the Billionaire's Agenda

Join me in the bathroom as I get intimate around how Healthy San Francisco Cared for me and what's at stake as the Billionaire-Epstein Class advance their agenda on San Francisco.

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TRANSCRIPT

Hi there, Queers and Comrades, it's Jason Wyman, aka Queerly Complex. And yes, I am coming to you today from my bathroom. I have an incredibly intimate story to share with you all today, and I can't think of a more intimate place in my house than my bathroom. So are you ready for story time? If so, keep watching.

I want to take us all the way back to 2019, the year before the pandemic. I just finished up an incredible solo show called Be Jason at Black and White Projects, curated by Rhiannon Evans McFadyen. And, as the show came down, I started battling some really severe imposter syndrome. It put me under my covers quite literally crying, and made me really not want to leave the house whatsoever.

It was it was actually pretty immobilizing. And so I didn't notice that there had actually been a shift in my body.

After a few months of not paying attention to my right leg, things started to get really, really bad. It wasn't just that my leg was tired. I literally couldn't walk. I would walk a couple of blocks. My right leg would give out and I would have to sit down and I would be sitting seated for half an hour, only two blocks from my house, not able to actually walk back home.

It made a lot of things incredibly difficult in San Francisco. For someone that doesn't have a car and is reliant on my two legs and getting around the city.

Now I do not have health insurance and I haven't had health insurance in over a decade. This is in large part due to the fact that I literally can't afford insurance. Based on the affordability of San Francisco and the kind of work I do and the ways in which I am paid. It's just not feasible for me.

So health in San Francisco is health care coverage that I pay for while I'm in the city of San Francisco. It is a service provided by the city. Yep. That's right. It is a service provided by the city, and it has been providing this service for over 15 years. Thanks to the former work of, supervisor Tom Ami Miano, who then went on to become a state senator, a representative.

Which brings me back to my right leg. After a series of tests that were done, thanks to my primary care physician, we noticed that there was this very, very, very, very, very large cyst that was growing behind my right knee. Some fluid or something had been leaking, and had created this incredible growth. And that growth was constricting the artery behind my right knee.

It was determined that I was going to need arterial bypass surgery. That's right. I was going to need arterial bypass surgery. They're going to take up this cyst. And in order to do so, they were going to have to slice, a piece of my artery away, and they were going to replace that with a piece of my artery from my right thigh.

Yep. You heard that correctly. It was a pretty invasive surgery, and I was incredibly terrified about having to be in the hospital for multiple days in order to recover from the surgery.

Well, I'm sure that you can guess the outcome of it, because I'm still here and I am walking and dancing and having a good old time. And that is because the arterial bypass surgery was successful, but is correct. It was incredibly successful and, allowed me almost immediately to start walking again. It was such an incredible experience to have a surgery or have a procedure done that actually improved the quality of my life.

But the surgery and my leg is only a small portion of this particular story. This is actually a story about San Francisco and how San Francisco has made commitments to care for its residents. I got this surgery because of healthy San Francisco. That's right. City Hall has made determinations that there are things that San Franciscans should have just by being San Franciscans.

That's a beautiful thing because it means that San Francisco cares.

Right now, there appears to be an ongoing and coordinated attack against the services that San Francisco provides, both through the city itself and through its community based organizations. Those are things like helping San Francisco. And they also include things like promote Juarez or housing subsidies for trans folks or legal aid services, or English language learning classes, or job training programs that are paying people to acquire new skills.

These are all services that the city has determined to make San Francisco better for every day. San Franciscans and show that City Hall cares about San Franciscans. And they are on the chopping block right now.

That is why I joined the San Francisco People's Budget Coalition's steering committee. San Francisco, thanks to healthy S.F., has demonstrated that it cared for me and it cares for me. And it's time that I stand alongside and fight for the services that my fellow everyday San Franciscans also care about. We are in an affordability crisis and cuts to essential services like food assistance and language access and tenant protections and housing subsidies and other things of that nature are only making things more precarious for everyday San Franciscans and more unaffordable.

And we have to fight against that.

So if you want to learn more about how you can join the fight against San Francisco City Hall and stand up for everyday San Franciscans and the services that we depend on, I would like you to join me at the San Francisco People's Budget Coalition's Town Hall on Tuesday, April 7th from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. It's going to be at La Ofrenda, which is located at 2070 Mission Street in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District.

A short block from 16th Street Bart station.

This is an all hands on deck moment. As we know, there are definitely cuts coming at the federal level. There are also cuts at the state level, and now there are cuts at the local level. And all of these cuts are lining up along the same exact axes. It is time that we stand against the billionaire agenda that has captured our cities, our state and our federal government.

So will you please join me in this fight for San Francisco's People's Budget? If so, check out @SFPeople'sBudget on Instagram. Go check out the website at People'sBudgetCoalition.org. And join me on April 7th for our town hall.

Thank you so much for joining me in my bathroom here and tuning in to listen to this entire story. You've made it to the end. My name is Jason Wyman. I am also known as really complex, and you can find out more about me at QueerlyComplex.com.

Ciao y'all.