I was told to put my hand into a box containing ten snakes because I'm a Muslim woman and I believe in اللّٰه and His Messenger ﷺ, because one of the snakes is actually non-venomous, and because every believer does this challenge in this circus and they're all fine. I refused the challenge and walked away from the circus. People call me a kafir.
A materialist and political-theological indictment of Muslim nationalism, patriarchal violence, class oppression, and religious authority that shields harm while policing the marginalised. If you invoke God to legitimise power, then answer the question now: من ربك؟
When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.
My people are on the streets again in Indonesia. Everywhere the state decides certain people's survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. The only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other. The full list is at the link. Some requests are urgent, some are overdue, and all of them need movement. Show up however possible, financially or by amplifying so someone who can give financially finds the request. Both matter.
Some weeks it feels like none of this matters. That feeling is rational; it is a system working exactly as intended. This week’s mutual aid roundup listed twelve requests and eleven Palestinian campaigns that need movement. Just like me, they need help. I’m unsure if I have any reasons or justifications other than I just felt like doing it, I just felt like listing them all. Maybe because they’re there, maybe because some weeks are harder than the rest, maybe because I can and don’t need any reason or justification to do something, or maybe because this is the only thing I can give them. We help not because we can, or because we want to, but because we must. If you can't or won't help me, then help them. Support them within your capacity in the way that matters—materially, socially, however you can.
They found my profile, saw the survival request, and decided that settled it. The visible need was always the weapon. Below are people whose visible need I am asking you to meet, or carry further than my feed can reach.
I’ve listed mutual aid requests from this week’s checkpoint that need urgent support: rent, food, medicine, utilities, and everything else that enables people to live with dignity. Please read through, support directly, share requests that still need movement, or boost this post far and wide so they can move beyond one feed and reach people who can help.
Again, this is a roundup of the first 10 requests shared under the previous Friday mutual aid checkpoint on my main profile, @wrzky
Give directly if possible, boost each request and this post, and see you next week.
After losing multiple Threads accounts, WRZKY began rebuilding through the Fediverse, federating the website via ActivityPub, and developing independent mutual aid infrastructure beyond Meta’s corporate control and algorithmic suppression—while preparing the return of Mutual Aid Checkpoint through decentralised platforms and newsletter-based community organising.
WRZKY's weekly mutual aid checkpoint Insha'Allah will be back very soon
WRZKY mutual aid for May essential needs totals $560 by 16/05/2026 after an April shortfall carried forward. Support helps keep me fed, connected, medicated, and able to continue mutual aid work.
