Mutual Aid Saves Lives
mutualaidspace.org exists because mutual aid shouldn’t depend on algorithms deciding who sees it.
A campaign gets posted; it reaches a few hundred people if it’s lucky, then disappears into a feed nobody scrolls back through. The people who needed help are still waiting. The platforms that buried their post never notice, and never care.
This site is a small, deliberate refusal of that. A place to post what you need, or what someone else needs, without it being at the mercy of an algorithm that was never built to care whether you eat this week.
What this actually is, right now
mutualaidspace.org is a place to submit and find mutual aid requests and campaigns, whether it is for rent, medical bills, disability support, emergencies, ongoing need. You can submit a campaign directly, and it gets published and aggregated publicly at Comrades & Community or Victims of Empire, where anyone can find it, share it, and support within their capacity.
It doesn’t have a fancy review process, a verification badge system, or a committee deciding who’s “deserving enough” to be believed. On purpose. The moment a mutual aid platform starts demanding proof of suffering before it’ll help you get seen, it’s stopped being mutual aid and started being a gatekeeper with better branding.
If you’re looking for a place that makes you prove your pain before it’ll let you ask for help, this isn’t it, and it’s never going to become that.
What does this platform rely on?
This platform relies on your discernment and solidarity; this site 100% gives you the freedom to prove your humanity. Mutual aid proves itself by what people choose to do within their capacity, after all.
What’s coming
A few things are being built out slowly, without rushing past the parts that matter:
- A global mutual aid directory: a place to find local mutual aid groups, hubs, and organising networks, so people who don’t know where to start can actually find something real near them.
- The Public Support Ledger: It’s a way for people who support mutual aid work to see, publicly, that the support is real and ongoing, without ever exposing who any individual supporter is. It’s for the cops inside your heads. For people who live somewhere that punishes visible solidarity, staying findable and public about receiving support is itself a form of protection; the more open it is, the harder it becomes for anyone to pretend it isn’t real, or to isolate the people receiving it.
Neither of these exist to slow down what already works. The campaign board stays exactly as simple as it is today while they’re being built.
What this site will never do
This platform doesn’t hold your money. Every payment link, every fundraiser, every payment handle posted here goes directly to whoever’s asking. It stays out of the way entirely.
Asking for help isn’t something that has to be earned first.
If you need help
Submit a campaign. Tell people what you need. That’s the whole form.
If you want to help
Visit Comrades & Community or Victims of Empire and look through what’s currently posted. Share what you can. Give what you can. Not everyone can give money; sharing a post that reaches one more person who can is its own real form of support.
Who’s behind this
This is built and maintained by one person for now. It’s part of a wider project working toward mutual aid infrastructure that doesn’t depend on Silicon Valley’s permission to exist; federated, decentralised, built to outlast any single platform’s decision to start charging for reach.
If that sounds worth supporting directly, you’re welcome to. If not, sharing a campaign costs nothing and still matters. Mutual aid has always depended on ordinary people choosing not to look away.
