Happy Pride! And Happy Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month!
I know that’s right. It’s around this month that I usually fought misogynists and bigots on the internet, who unsurprisingly were both men… and some women, for some patriarchal reasons. And usually around this month, I had inner turmoil about whether or not I should channel my inner murabiyyah to remind fellow Muslims about the moral lessons behind the story of people of Luth (Prophet Lot), which always ended up forgotten and I got distracted by more pressing matters like doxxing and death threats for instance. But those were my Threads days, which also allegedly contributed to my getting permanently banned. Your girl was deranged, and positively unsafe for the harmful.
What they all had in common, every single adversary across every single conflict, was that at some point they found their way to my profile, saw the survival request pinned there or linked in my bio, and decided that settled it. Either I was a beggar, which meant my politics could be dismissed — I was essentially just an influencer, after all — or I was a scammer, which meant I could be reported to the authorities of their choice, or they thought doxxing me or telling me to die would be cute. The visible need was always the weapon. It still is.
The idea that you hold a strong principle on certain things while simultaneously needing mutual aid to survive makes whatever your principle is illegitimate and makes you an easy target to dismiss. That’s how you know your presence, with your principles and visible needs in all wholeness, disrupts something.
Below are people whose visible need I am asking you to meet, or to carry further than my feed alone can reach. The rest of the requests can be found under last week’s mutual aid checkpoint.
✨Mutual Aid Roundup✨
@Ricardus @AutumnWyvern @nat @thereaders @sparkshocker @broodcoffee @crystalgrace @QuyetPawz @ashleyyrain @Toadlyturtle
✨Palestinian Campaign Spotlight✨
Save my family from hunger and homelessness in Gaza… We have no place in this world.
Hiyam is a mother in Gaza with a tent too torn to shelter her family. She needs $700 for a tent and food.
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Save Ratiba and her family from war and live safely
Standing over a fire in pain just to feed her children. Reta is keeping her family going one meal at a time.
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This space is held together by a disabled Indonesian Muslim woman. Monthly support keeps me fed, medicated, and connected, and helps me keep resisting through my writing and mutual aid projects.
It is also my birthday month and I need your help.
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