08/28/2026
You’ve probably seen me in this Abolish ICE ringer a lot lately. I bought an extra from a favorite artist of mine and mill neighbor, Abe Tensia for a giveaway “at some point.” The point is now. The need is right now. Bloom community, rally with me: this shirt, this weekend, every dollar to Project Relief.
Our neighbors are being abducted. Off the street, outside courthouses, on the way to work with their kids in the car. Kids are coming home to empty apartments. People are sent to detention camps without medication, without care, without anyone knowing where they are. If nobody is advocating for you in there, you get lost in the system. People are disappearing into it.
A lawyer is the difference between a ‘fair’ shot and no shot, and lawyers cost thousands. A family that just lost its only paycheck doesn’t have thousands.
Project Relief does this work. A Black immigrant-led mutual aid collective on the ground in Maine since 2019 — paying for lawyers, posting bail, covering rent and groceries for the families left behind, showing up at raids, getting information out to the rest of us. So much of it is behind the scenes, and it is exhausting. Immigrants helping immigrants. We’re the neighbors who can chip in.
THIS WEEKEND ONLY:
🔸 $10 = 1 entry, no limit. $50+ gets a bonus entry.
🔸 Venmo @ Lillyvanders , note “SHIRT,” or cash at the shop this weekend
🔸 Drawing Sunday night in stories
🔸 Every cent goes to Project Relief. I’ll post the receipt.
Unisex XL — fits like a men’s XL / women’s XXL. Artist is currently sold out of this size.
We’re a small shop, not a big fundraiser. But everything helps. Rather give directly? DM me for the link or find it in Project Relief Maine bio.
Share this far and wide. That’s the other thing you can do.