In the digital age, mutual aid has taken on new forms. On the one hand, crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe or Chuffed are capitalist infrastructures that reproduce many of the same problems as donor-driven aid: they demand performances of suffering, extract fees, and expose the dispossessed to surveillance. On the other hand, they have also become indispensable tools.

At the same time, Palestinians livestreaming their destruction, Sudanese volunteers sharing appeals, and Congolese organisers posting campaign links all bend these tools toward survival. As a result, digital infrastructures become unlikely spaces where dispossessed communities fight to stay alive.

Nevertheless, digital solidarity is imperfect, but it is real. Consequently, campaigns amplified on platforms like Threads extend reach beyond the limits of geography. They allow dispossessed communities to build transnational networks of care, even as states and empires attempt to block resources at borders.

The lesson is not that digital tools solve dispossession. They do not. Instead, they reveal the creativity of communities that refuse to wait for institutions that have already abandoned them.

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You can now read the full essay offline by supporting my work (from $21):
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1916035

#palestine #sudan #congo #humanitarianism #disastercapitalism #advocacy #imperialism #activism #press #antifa #globalizeintifada #internationalism

How becoming a drag queen helped my journey as a trans man

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/drag-therapy-trans-identity-essay

Mutual aid request 💕💸 Ongoing support needed.
I didn’t meet March’s goal, so the gap carries into April. I had to prioritise meds and couldn’t pay utilities, so I need 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 $𝟮𝟱𝟬 to stabilise this month. The bare minimum is $𝟯𝟳𝟱/𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵.

🚨 Still 0/580. I need at least $75 urgently just to survive the next few days.

Monthly support is preferred; one-off support helps.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

Full explanation:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Stabilise-Monthly-Essentials-W7W11WTQFO

Ongoing work:
https://wrzky.com/legacy

If you can, step in this month.
Please contribute or amplify within your capacity. Thank you, thank you

@[email protected] @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaidboost @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @mutual_aid
@MutualAidNet @audhd #antifa
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdFund #disabilitymutualaid
#MutualAidBoost #press #MutualAidSavesLives #EmergencyCrowdFund #ActuallyAutistic #Trotskyism #HelpFolksLive2026 #socialism #communism #anarchism #internationalism #medicalassistance #advocacy #activism
#marxism #internationationalism #antiimperialism

💕💸 Ongoing support needed.
I didn’t meet March’s goal, so the gap carries into April. I had to prioritise meds and couldn’t pay utilities, so I need 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 $𝟮𝟱𝟬 to stabilise this month. The bare minimum is $𝟯𝟳𝟱/𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵.

🚨 Still 0/580. I need at least $75 urgently just to survive the next few days.

Monthly support is preferred; one-off support helps.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

Full explanation:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Stabilise-Monthly-Essentials-W7W11WTQFO

Ongoing work:
https://wrzky.com/legacy

If you can, step in this month.
Please contribute or amplify within your capacity. Thank you, thank you.

@[email protected] @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @edendestroyer @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaidboost @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @mutual_aid
@MutualAidNet @audhd
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdFund #disabilitymutualaid
#MutualAidBoost #mutualaidsaveslives #ShowUpForWishes #EmergencyCrowdFund #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergence #audhd #cptsd #HelpFolksLive2026 #anarchist #anarchism #internationalism #groceries #medicalassistance #advocacy #activism
#marxism #internationationalism #antiimperialism

When a platform hates you so much…
Islamophobic platforms do what they do best, I guess 🫤

My works are still there on my website and Patreon (link in bio), and I still very much need support for bills and food (ko-fi/patreon/liberapay links in bio, and you can also scan the QR code on the 4th pic).

Still 0/580. I need at least $75 urgently just to survive the next few days.

Please contribute or amplify within your capacity. Thank you, thank you.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Stabilise-Monthly-Essentials-W7W11WTQFO

https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal

#islamophobia #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest @[email protected] @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @edendestroyer @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaidboost @mutualaid @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @mutual_aid
@MutualAidNet @audhd
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityCrowdFund #disabilitymutualaid
#MutualAidBoost #mutualaidsaveslives #ShowUpForWishes #EmergencyCrowdFund #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergence #audhd #cptsd #HelpFolksLive2026 #anarchist #anarchism #internationalism #groceries #medicalassistance #advocacy #activism

A reminder to my fellow Canadians; you can send letters to any Member of Parliament or Member of the Senate (along with other positions) postage free.

Written letters can be advantageous over e-mails as they require more physical processing whereas email can be processed digitally without any human ever seeing / reading it. While letters can be automated it's a more difficult process and thus the chances of your letter actually being read are higher.

If you don't have a printer many public library's in Canada provide a limited number of free prints per month, or you can go one step further and hand write the letter.

#Canada #CDNpoli #politics #advocacy

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/government-mail-free-of-postage/overview.page

""Every act of transgression weakens conscience," so was the view of many thinkers. And indeed, to this day, we typically see the transgressive — breaking rules, acting cruelly, and "being bad" — as unacceptable. But some argue its status is unknown and transgression might be necessary and desirable. Breaking rules with the intention to transgress is essential, they say, if we are to challenge authoritarian systems of thought. Recent research shows individuals express freedom and agency through breaking such norms. And whilst cruelty is universally condemned, studies have shown that people who cause harm and later reflect on their actions report an increased sense of moral awareness.

Should we accept that transgression is vital to a healthy culture central and necessary for humans to flourish? Or should we seek to remove transgressive behavior from all public and private life? More radically, is it a mistake to talk of "right" or "wrong," "bad" or "wicked" in the first place, and should we instead abandon moral terms altogether?"—

How liberals paved the way for Trump | Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, Josh Cohen >

https://youtu.be/xJ9q7XoQ8wo?si=Akg72zvGxWdAH-yt

#advocacy #minorities #healthy_culture #liberals #identity_culture #transparency #transgression #universality #communities #working_class #private_life