Tasha Eimer struggled to find her place as a lesbian woman. In a bid to promote inclusion and acceptance she's leading a project to fill her town with rainbow hearts for Pride Month.
Tasha Eimer was sitting at home one day struggling to overcome some anxiety, when she reached for rainbow-coloured balls of yarn and started to crochet hearts.
"I thought the hearts would be perfect to share with others and leave around Port Macquarie with a little hand-painted note: 'Take me with you on your way, if you need some extra love today,'" Tasha said.Her inspiration came from the global Random Acts of Crochet Kindness Facebook group, where people share crochet creations made for a stranger to find and keep.
Local resident Liz Ward was among those to share her joy at finding one of the hearts, while out with her young son.Tasha said the uplifting community response inspired her to set up a broader Hearts of Pride project. "So, this is a reminder that we are here and we deserve to be treated with the same amount of respect and equality as everyone else and I hope that this can help in some small way," Tasha said.The mother of two boys hopes her project will help others on a similar path to her know they aren't alone.
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