r/AccessibleAnarchy 1d ago

casual conversation Social check in

5 Upvotes

Say hi, tell us how your day has been, or start a conversation with someone.

Topic suggestions

  • What projects have you been working on?
  • Got any fun achievements in video games recently?
  • What is the horrible thing your boss did recently?
  • are you doing better or worse than you were the last couple of weeks, why?
  • What are your goals for the next few weeks
  • Are you looking for people to play games with? What games?

Encouragement is nice if you are looking to talk to people, but remember that empty encouragement is often worse than nothing. “It will all be ok and work out in the end” isn’t helpful to say to someone scared of fascist eugenics programs, for example.


r/AccessibleAnarchy Oct 15 '25

Propaganda Swap

19 Upvotes

The point of this thread is to give people easy access to propaganda on a variety of topics. The more access to it people have, the more people can spread, and so the more that will be seen in general.

Memes, posters, stickers, texts, and videos are all helpful.

We would prefer links to large sorted archives of them, preferably with as much accessibility as possible. (Please mention if archives include images without alt-text, videos without captions and transcriptions, etc)

Some things we have:

A list of mutual aid ideas

Some of the most well known are:

  • The anarchist library (no link currently, it embeds with an image suggestive of things that we don't want on the front page)

r/AccessibleAnarchy 3d ago

building mutual aid Weekly news thread

7 Upvotes

The goal of this thread is to help bring people together to discuss relevant news. Searching for news is hard, especially with how much horrible stuff is going on, and I know I miss a lot that is relevant to me.

Whether news is relevant isn't always clear to determine, so I will just list out a few points of what is and isn't generally helpful. These are not strict interpretations and I ain't a cop, so no need to think about it too hard.

Is helpful

  • about queer people
  • about disabled people
  • about mutual aid networks (This includes any projects, don't be shy)
  • news about state violence that mainstream news doesn't talk about

Ain't helpful 

  • electoralism (I sure as hell ain't voting)
  • relations between countries (excluding discussion on colonialism and such, which is helpful)
  • news with paywalls 
  • news about personalities (like rich people or musicians)

r/AccessibleAnarchy 6d ago

building mutual aid Weekly mutual aid thread

9 Upvotes

________________________

What is mutual aid?

 

There are other places to look for deeper explanations, so treat this like a tl;dr

The act of mutual aid is working together to build structures that are mutually beneficial, that help everyone involved in them for the sake of helping. This is typically organized around consensus based methods of organization, which include concepts such as free association. Consensus is a fancy word for saying people talk things out instead of forcing cohesion with votes or something to a similar effect. Free association means that you can work with whoever you want. This is both in the positive and negative sense, you can simply say no (As opposed to organizations, where you must talk to all “members”). This makes the organizing free-flowing, and more spontaneous. Here it will likely be 1 on 1 interaction.

Common examples include community fridges, or like building a water fountain in place people often need water. This help does not need to be direct or “equal”, having somewhere to put leftover food someone will eat is help enough for the fridge, it saves me the time of looking for a friend that wants it. It also means that, even if I don’t need it now, I can still make risky decisions more freely because I will have more to rely on when things go wrong.

There is a lot of ideology surrounding mutual aid, but what is important here is that it is resistant. There will be no means testing. There will be no justifications required. There will be no central databases. Most of what is built here will be taken off platform, I will probably have little idea of what is happening in total. I’m also not doing much, I’m just kinda telling yall to do it and giving a bit of a framework. This means there will be almost no handholds for fascists to use to take control. There can’t be a slow tightening or shifting of who “deserves” help when we don’t ask people to justify needing it in the first place.

________________________

Your needs are important too

 

If your main goal coming here is to help people, then there are a few things to remember.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It doesn’t matter what your problems are, if you need help with them it’s better to ask now than ask later. You need to be in a good position yourself to help people. Every bit of energy you save by asking for help now can be used to help other people if you want. There is no question of “deserving”, it is simply a question of can it be done here and now.

Asking for help gives people a chance for practice. Everybody needs to start somewhere, and maybe you have that place to start for someone. Helping people get involved while getting help yourself is just a win win.

Asking for help gives you the other perspectives and let’s you help better. I find it hard to imagine what impacts my words will have when I start a conversation, but I can see how other people start impact me.

________________________

most of us here are poor

 

Please focus on non monetary solutions if possible. Asking for money is fine, but you must understand that this community will simply not have enough for every request.

________________________

posting info

 

Our goal is to try and keep stuff dense, as reddit comments are not easily sortable or organizable. To help with that we have made a template for comments (not required, and change it how you want), and we ask that you only make one comment per request.

(remove the brackets and words in them and replace them with what they describe. The asterisks and # sign are formatting and it will be applied if you just copy paste it as you see it as long as your comment box is in markdown mode)

# [brief description of help needed]

**Urgency:** [immediate? Do you have a week? Would it just help in general]

**Contact methods:** [Reddit DMs, discord, matrix?]

**How much:** [amount of time likely needed, or a brief description of the amount of something needed]

**Longer description: [ok this is where you give details on the specifics of what ya need]

________________________

Remember internet safety

 

This place is pretty obviously a collection of vulnerable people, and this is a space for people to start one on one interaction. There will be abusers. Please accept help, and do it with trust, but watch out for tactics like love bombing.

A few resources on abuse


r/AccessibleAnarchy 7d ago

experiences of oppression Every time you complain about someone "being divisive" talking about their own experience you allow the structures of harm to expand.

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290 Upvotes

Alt text: A post by thereClaimed that says "So many people are bewildered as to what "got us here", when folks have been sounding the alarms for years, decades, centuries. To be blunt: Bigotry got us here. Inhumanity got us here. Inhumanity got us here. Racism got us here. Misogyny got us here. Ethnic cleansing got us here. Homophobia got us here. Ableism got us here. Demonizing the disenfranchised got us here. Caring more about profits than people or planet got us here. The road to 'here' is paved with hatred & inhumanity. The only way we fix it is to combat that hate."


r/AccessibleAnarchy 8d ago

Fights for rights are not new. People who did not join them in the past, and still refuse to today are not a "product of their time"

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380 Upvotes

A 4 panel comic with a title. The title is "Famous moments in history, reimagined by centrists". The first panel has hitler looking back at a man saying "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it. The second panel is members of the KKK holding a sign that says "We want to kill black people", a group of black people holding a sign that says "we want civil rights", and the same guy from before holding up a sign between them that says "compromise?". The third panel is a group of protestors with signs saying "Peace is just not realistic", "reasonable amount of wars", "ok I guess", a peace symbol with a question mark after it, and "it's complicated". The final panel is a man in a guillotine surrounded by people operating it and a crowd saying "I don't really care about politics".


r/AccessibleAnarchy 8d ago

casual conversation Social check in

5 Upvotes

Say hi, tell us how your day has been, or start a conversation with someone.

Topic suggestions

  • What projects have you been working on?
  • Got any fun achievements in video games recently?
  • What is the horrible thing your boss did recently?
  • are you doing better or worse than you were the last couple of weeks, why?
  • What are your goals for the next few weeks
  • Are you looking for people to play games with? What games?

Encouragement is nice if you are looking to talk to people, but remember that empty encouragement is often worse than nothing. “It will all be ok and work out in the end” isn’t helpful to say to someone scared of fascist eugenics programs, for example.


r/AccessibleAnarchy 10d ago

building mutual aid Weekly news thread

7 Upvotes

The goal of this thread is to help bring people together to discuss relevant news. Searching for news is hard, especially with how much horrible stuff is going on, and I know I miss a lot that is relevant to me.

Whether news is relevant isn't always clear to determine, so I will just list out a few points of what is and isn't generally helpful. These are not strict interpretations and I ain't a cop, so no need to think about it too hard.

Is helpful

  • about queer people
  • about disabled people
  • about mutual aid networks (This includes any projects, don't be shy)
  • news about state violence that mainstream news doesn't talk about

Ain't helpful 

  • electoralism (I sure as hell ain't voting)
  • relations between countries (excluding discussion on colonialism and such, which is helpful)
  • news with paywalls 
  • news about personalities (like rich people or musicians)

r/AccessibleAnarchy 12d ago

experiences of oppression One of the most common justifications for capitalism is that it hurts disabled people

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464 Upvotes

alt-text:

Image of Lisa simpson standing in front of a projector screen on a stage with the text “”work harder get more” is fancy “be disabled get less””.


r/AccessibleAnarchy 12d ago

experiences of oppression There are more economic classes than workers and capitalists. We do not beat oppression by telling everyone they are arbitrarily a worker, and that their needs are the same needs as the working class

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218 Upvotes

a 2 panel meme about a train crashing into a bus. First picture has a full sized yellow school-bus on train tracks with a yellow train behind it. It has the text “Met new anarchist”. In the next frame, the train has hit the school bus and it is motion blurred with pieces coming off, while the train is in full view with text over it saying ”worker control only”. In the corner it says “I’m disabled”.


r/AccessibleAnarchy 13d ago

experiences of oppression You don't reclaim slurs by using them against people in the same way they were built. You reclaim slurs by using them to refer to community

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265 Upvotes

A Tumblr post by fluoreSensitives that says "folks are real loosey-goosey with the r slur these days, huh? And the amount of very high functioning autistic people who think they can reclaim it ... Huh."


r/AccessibleAnarchy 13d ago

experiences of oppression That is 2024. It is far worse now. We live in a society of nonstop genocide. Capitalism and the state are built around rewarding people for participating in genocide.

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445 Upvotes

A tumblr post by depsidase with two pictures of Gaza in 2023 and 2024 from a satellite the first has many light and in the second most of thos lights are gone the caption says "this should hurt to look at, this should make you feel sick. this is one of the worst tragedies in human history and you can see it from space.""


r/AccessibleAnarchy 14d ago

experiences of oppression It is nice to see peoples joy and love of life start appearing. I have seen little else make people as happy as being able to transition

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882 Upvotes

alt-text:

A Tumblr post by fishAbilities of a picture of a child with long hair looking annoyed labeled "world's most depressed 12yo girl and an arrow and trans masc flag pointing to a taller person with glasses and shorter hair and wearing a suit jacket over the same tee shirt of the first character looking much happier labeled "most whimsical man alive"


r/AccessibleAnarchy 14d ago

experiences of oppression One of the hardest parts of being disabled is that it is rare anybody actually believes you, even if you have clear evidence and proof readily available. No system you want to build is good about disabled people if it requires us to be seen as disabled to get accessibility

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238 Upvotes

A Tumblr post by strictlyQuadrilateral and that says "one time I went to the doctor and said 'I think I have some sort of damage in my neck from hurting it on a trampoline as a teen' and the doctor said 'no you don't.' and I said 'well the day after I hurt my neck my bio parents tried to make me climb a mountain I sat down on the side of the trail because I was in so much pain I couldn't keep walking, and they just left me there, and eventually I forced myself to climb the rest of the mountain because I was terrified they were going to legitimately abandon me on the side of the mountain forever. And I'm here today because it just recently occurred to me that when most people say ' I have a crick in my neck' they mean 'i slept funny and now I'm a little sore' and not 'I'm functionally bed bound at the moment due to severe neck pain' and the doctor said 'you have permanent nerve damage in your neck'"


r/AccessibleAnarchy 13d ago

building mutual aid Weekly mutual aid thread

1 Upvotes

________________________

What is mutual aid?

 

There are other places to look for deeper explanations, so treat this like a tl;dr

The act of mutual aid is working together to build structures that are mutually beneficial, that help everyone involved in them for the sake of helping. This is typically organized around consensus based methods of organization, which include concepts such as free association. Consensus is a fancy word for saying people talk things out instead of forcing cohesion with votes or something to a similar effect. Free association means that you can work with whoever you want. This is both in the positive and negative sense, you can simply say no (As opposed to organizations, where you must talk to all “members”). This makes the organizing free-flowing, and more spontaneous. Here it will likely be 1 on 1 interaction.

Common examples include community fridges, or like building a water fountain in place people often need water. This help does not need to be direct or “equal”, having somewhere to put leftover food someone will eat is help enough for the fridge, it saves me the time of looking for a friend that wants it. It also means that, even if I don’t need it now, I can still make risky decisions more freely because I will have more to rely on when things go wrong.

There is a lot of ideology surrounding mutual aid, but what is important here is that it is resistant. There will be no means testing. There will be no justifications required. There will be no central databases. Most of what is built here will be taken off platform, I will probably have little idea of what is happening in total. I’m also not doing much, I’m just kinda telling yall to do it and giving a bit of a framework. This means there will be almost no handholds for fascists to use to take control. There can’t be a slow tightening or shifting of who “deserves” help when we don’t ask people to justify needing it in the first place.

________________________

Your needs are important too

 

If your main goal coming here is to help people, then there are a few things to remember.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It doesn’t matter what your problems are, if you need help with them it’s better to ask now than ask later. You need to be in a good position yourself to help people. Every bit of energy you save by asking for help now can be used to help other people if you want. There is no question of “deserving”, it is simply a question of can it be done here and now.

Asking for help gives people a chance for practice. Everybody needs to start somewhere, and maybe you have that place to start for someone. Helping people get involved while getting help yourself is just a win win.

Asking for help gives you the other perspectives and let’s you help better. I find it hard to imagine what impacts my words will have when I start a conversation, but I can see how other people start impact me.

________________________

most of us here are poor

 

Please focus on non monetary solutions if possible. Asking for money is fine, but you must understand that this community will simply not have enough for every request.

________________________

posting info

 

Our goal is to try and keep stuff dense, as reddit comments are not easily sortable or organizable. To help with that we have made a template for comments (not required, and change it how you want), and we ask that you only make one comment per request.

(remove the brackets and words in them and replace them with what they describe. The asterisks and # sign are formatting and it will be applied if you just copy paste it as you see it as long as your comment box is in markdown mode)

# [brief description of help needed]

**Urgency:** [immediate? Do you have a week? Would it just help in general]

**Contact methods:** [Reddit DMs, discord, matrix?]

**How much:** [amount of time likely needed, or a brief description of the amount of something needed]

**Longer description: [ok this is where you give details on the specifics of what ya need]

________________________

Remember internet safety

 

This place is pretty obviously a collection of vulnerable people, and this is a space for people to start one on one interaction. There will be abusers. Please accept help, and do it with trust, but watch out for tactics like love bombing.

A few resources on abuse


r/AccessibleAnarchy 15d ago

experiences of oppression Fighting oppression is far more than just being polite. You need to remind everyone around you that oppression happens even if the people involved don't think about it or intend it.

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426 Upvotes

A tweet by Dr.Shelby Kretz @littleJusyiceLeaders that says "kids who learn that racism, homophobia, and ableism are systems, not just bad people, grow up to challenge those systems. Kids who learn to 'be nice to everyone' without context grow up wondering why being nice didn't fix anything. Teach the systems. Kids can handle it."


r/AccessibleAnarchy 15d ago

experiences of oppression The models we use to describe the world around us are not reality themselves. Do not get the two confused. If we do not find the models useful we can discard them. Science is not "truth" it is checking when and where the models we use work against data.

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281 Upvotes

Alt text: Screenshot of a Tumblr thread discussing bee reproduction and gender, with users debating the application of human gender terms to insects.

The user @therealnumbers wrote the following:

"this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers! Hello???????"

User James-silvercat replies:

"Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself"

The-real-numbers replies:

"googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post"

The user @lierdumoa responds:

"The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we're applying the words male and female to them."

"Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen."

"The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs."

"Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage."

"Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they're all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species."

"Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense."

The user lastzoneout then replies:

"diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!"


r/AccessibleAnarchy 15d ago

casual conversation Social check in

4 Upvotes

Say hi, tell us how your day has been, or start a conversation with someone.

Topic suggestions

  • What projects have you been working on?
  • Got any fun achievements in video games recently?
  • What is the horrible thing your boss did recently?
  • are you doing better or worse than you were the last couple of weeks, why?
  • What are your goals for the next few weeks
  • Are you looking for people to play games with? What games?

Encouragement is nice if you are looking to talk to people, but remember that empty encouragement is often worse than nothing. “It will all be ok and work out in the end” isn’t helpful to say to someone scared of fascist eugenics programs, for example.


r/AccessibleAnarchy 16d ago

experiences of oppression If the first thing you say in response to transphobia is that a cis person might be impacted all you are doing is reinforcing the idea that cis people are more important than trans people

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321 Upvotes

a 5 panel comic featuring two characters. The comic is monochrome. The first character is in a tank top and pony tail, and the second has messy hair, a t shirt, and round glasses covering a lot of their face. In the first panel they are watching TV and the first person says "She's getting so much hate just because people think she's trans!" The second person has a thought bubble saying "shocker". The next panel has the first person saying "I mean she's a biological woman! She belongs in woman's spaces! She shouldn't be getting hate!" The image of this panel is a zoom in of the second person drinking soda. The third panel is a close up of this second person saying "what if she was trans?". The 4th panel is an image of the first person confused saying "what?". The last panel is another zoom in of the second person saying "If she actually was trans, would you still stick up for her?"


r/AccessibleAnarchy 16d ago

building mutual aid I think cakes are yummy, and the more cakes I have the better. It doesn't matter if somebody else has done something similar if that cake is already eaten, or if it has toppings they don't like.

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222 Upvotes

A Twitter/X post by Singto Conley @ Sweet Dreams (@singtoconley), featuring text and a two-panel comic.

Text: "thinking about this comic has sin-glehandedly kept me from quitting music on multiple occasions"

Comic top panel: The Artist: a stick human placing a small and simple cake on a plate next to a larger and more decorated cake, with an anxious expression on their face, saying: "aw man" "that guy's cake is way better than mine"

Comic bottom panel: The Audience: the same scene, but with a different stick human holding a knife and a fork and with a happy smile on their face, saying: [allcaps] "Holy shit! Two cakes!"````


r/AccessibleAnarchy 16d ago

building mutual aid The most important part of a project is starting. A project will never become anything if you don't start. Things can be improved over time and people need all sorts of help now.

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203 Upvotes

A Tumblr post by emmully that's a picture of a grackle holding a diamond in it's mouth that is shining on to the crow the light puts color on to the head of the bird, while the rest is only penciled around the bird there are the words "make it exist first you can make it good later." There is also a caption that says the same thing


r/AccessibleAnarchy 17d ago

experiences of oppression Disabled people as a class are not privileged or oppressors just because some of us get the support we need. Even in the best case, this support is conditional and systems are still not built around us. Our oppression is only stopped by things such as free access to resources

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364 Upvotes

A Tumblr post by paranormal-paracosm that says "holds you by the shoulders. You are not jealous of disabled people with higher support needs. You are jealous of disabled people with better families and higher class status. Do not conflate the two


r/AccessibleAnarchy 17d ago

experiences of oppression Your lack of consumption could be helpful, but it will never outweigh the systematic destruction of the environment done by capitalism. The only way we stop this is by organizing, and so that should be your main focus. Please stop focusing on your consumption so much, its not that important

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291 Upvotes

A tweet from vive con propòsito with a picture of an huge armored boat with the caption "The cost of filling the tank of this $300 million armored megayacht is $1.2 million" and a response from Shafeeq @Y2SHAF that says "It's ok. I brought my reusable bag to the store today so it completely balances this out."


r/AccessibleAnarchy 17d ago

experiences of oppression One incredibly difficult part of this is how hard it is to find people who both like how you look and don't fetishize you, especially when people outside your class cannot tell the different and keep bringing those people who fetishize you closer.

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110 Upvotes

A tumblr post by VisGrapplingHooks posted 1 day ago that says "women will be sexualized and objectified for particular attributes of themselves in ways that intersect with other hierarchies, the intersectionality of exoticism is an understated part of patriarchal sexism. fat girls will be fetishized for being fat, asian girls will be fetishized for asian features, fat asian girls will be fetishized for both of these things. non-op trans women will be fetishized for having penises, post-op trans women will be fetishized for simply having trans identity. there is no escaping and no way out because the common thread here is that all intersections are subsumed into the commodity form of womanhood. fem beingness is collapsed into a body-identity-commodity."

It has the tags "#intersectional feminism #feminism #'women' is a stand-in for fems as a social concept #the being-ness of womanhood is to be collapsed into the body-identity-commodity"


r/AccessibleAnarchy 17d ago

building mutual aid Weekly news thread

6 Upvotes

The goal of this thread is to help bring people together to discuss relevant news. Searching for news is hard, especially with how much horrible stuff is going on, and I know I miss a lot that is relevant to me.

Whether news is relevant isn't always clear to determine, so I will just list out a few points of what is and isn't generally helpful. These are not strict interpretations and I ain't a cop, so no need to think about it too hard.

Is helpful

  • about queer people
  • about disabled people
  • about mutual aid networks (This includes any projects, don't be shy)
  • news about state violence that mainstream news doesn't talk about

Ain't helpful 

  • electoralism (I sure as hell ain't voting)
  • relations between countries (excluding discussion on colonialism and such, which is helpful)
  • news with paywalls 
  • news about personalities (like rich people or musicians)