Roanoke Mutual Aid

06/22/2025

🚨🔥 URGENT REQUEST🔥 🚨
We are quickly approaching our first major heatwave of 2025. The feels-like temperatures will be WELL into the triple digits from Sunday until at least Thursday. This heat can and will be DEADLY. We are running LOW on funds and donations and are STRUGGLING to keep out neighbor’s needs met. We are asking for donations to keep our neighbors alive and cool as this heat dome lingers over us next week. If you are politically active but havent given money to or volunteered for aid projects now is your time. Don’t have time to volunteer or physically purchase supplies? We have a virtual wishlist. If you can’t donate PLEASE share this with anyone you know who can help. Post it in your neighborhood groups, send it to your aunt, anything. THIS HEAT WILL BE DEADLY. If you need help during the ongoing climate crisis reach out. Our links to donate are in our bio.

04/18/2025

Important Announcement:

In an effort to divest from Meta, from here on out RMA WILL NO LONGER BE ACTIVE ON FACEBOOK. We will leave our page visible as an archive, and we will periodically check for messages for a couple more weeks.

However, we will no longer be posting on Facebook in any capacity and we may not be able to respond at all via Messenger past the transition period. We will continue using Instagram a little while longer, but it is our intention to eventually leave that platform as well and focus efforts on in-person organizing. We encourage others to consider doing the same!

If anyone is looking to keep in touch with us, please check out our linktree for our e-mail.

04/03/2025

Hey y’all,

We’ve updated our donation wishlist for Spring and would love your support in sourcing supplies for distro. Notably, our unhoused neighbors are in need of rain gear, first aid kits and travel-sized toiletries, and bags to keep their belongings clean and dry. Donations can be dropped off directly at Common Clay or purchased from our wishlist (link in bio). Thanks so much for continuing to support our distribution efforts! Image descriptions in captions.

03/25/2025

Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do To Counter Fascism (Yes You; Yes Now!)

Y’all might have encountered us distributing this zine and others, as we will continue to do, amongst many other forms of action mentioned in this very zine. Don’t get complacent, don’t think that you’ll be saved because we’re already doing something. We need all hands on deck til we’re all free, so don’t just do nothing!

And on that note, another thing you can do right now is SHARE the last slide or donate to two of our most prolific members. This particular trans couple spends many hours each week organizing for RMA and advocating for Roanoke’s most marginalized, the least we can do to thank them is boost their request during a time of grief & struggle. And wear a mask. 😷

Venmo: V-Thorn
Cashapp: $VThorn66
(alternative Cashapp: $SolidarityRMA)

Image descriptions in captions.

02/22/2025

02/17/2025

A glimpse of the items we've been re-distributing to folks each week since early January; what is pictured is only a small fraction of everything we have shared. ❤Shoutout to for opening their space to us, for sharing coffee and hot water, for assisting us with funding, for an assortment of harm reduction supplies, for 40 wool blankets, and the dozens of our friends, neighbors, and comrades who have redistributed their excess resources, wealth, time and energy. Never forget that supporting our community through direct action empowers all of us to resist fascism.

We're still accepting and distributing supplies as often as they come in, so check out our wishlist and share it too! We could easily spend $500+ on food and gear each time we distribute and folks can always use more than what we have. Especially with yet another winter storm coming in this week...

Image 1: A collage of donated items including Narcan and test strips, balaclavas, gloves, hand warmers, ramen noodles, a table, and several large boxes of other assorted items. The collage is embellished with hearts and sparkles on a colorful background.

Image 2: Order reciepts from Kroger, BJ's, and Chef Store. Bought items include snack nuts, instant coffee, electrolyte packs and drinks, oatmeal, hot chocolate, and hand warmers.

Image 3: Six cash donations via venmo and Cashapp are pictured with cold-themed emojis. The donations range in amount from $15 to $50.

02/01/2025

Parasite is five years old this year?! Don’t know about y’all, but we’re due for a re-watch. Or if you still haven’t seen it yet, trust us, you don’t want to miss it.

The revolution will not be all work and no fun, so get cozy, grab some popcorn and come hang out with us next Saturday night. This virtual social event is perfectly catered to introverts, film nerds, covid conscious baddies, disillusioned wage laborers, people who are mad about the Roanoke subreddit banning political posts, and transgender people in general.

We’ll be starting off in a Jitsi meeting at 6:30pm with social minute while we settle in, starting the movie at 7, and having a few minutes of post-movie discussion afterwards. Feel free to skip the social time and just tune in for the movie if you’re shy. Link to our Jitsi room will be posted shortly before 6:30 on the day of.

See y’all there!

Image description: The Parasite (2019) movie poster with text overlaid describing the event. Top text reads “Roanoke Mutual Aid virtual social event”. Bottom text reads “Parasite watch party. February 8, 2025. jitsi link TBA at 6:30pm. Movie starts at 7.”

01/24/2025

Hey y’all, we have a digital wishlist for our supply distribution efforts up and running! We’re thinking this will help make it easier for more folks to share resources directly, and it will make it easy for us to keep y’all updated on what folks need in real time. Use the Throne link in our bio to check it out. ♥️

Note: While we are hesitant to encourage shopping from Amazon (several of us personally boycott them), this list can still be used to reference what items are needed and bought elsewhere. If you buy something off our wishlist independently, let us know in a DM so we can update it. That said, if you already have Amazon Prime then why not share it?

Image description: a flyer with text coming from a megaphone which reads “Check out our wishlist (link in bio)”. The flyer is decorated in florals.

01/17/2025

we are continuing to stand in solidarity with all of our friends and neighbors who are trying to survive in this weather with little to no support systems. the powers which deprive your neighbors of housing are the same which are depriving you of accessible healthcare, food, autonomy, etc… and they may deprive you of housing one day too.

to engage in mutual aid is to imagine and create a world in which all people are entitled to have their needs met. resist the scourge of greed and cruelty through care and community with us by sharing resources with unhoused Roanokers ♥️ please see our previous post for ideas of what folks need (emphasis on hand/body warmers) as well as info on where to make financial contributions. 🙏🏽

next week we will be posting more updates on how supply distributions are going along with showing big love to the folks making this work possible, so stay tuned!

Image description: a screen shot of the 10 day weather forecast for Roanoke from January 17 through January 26, 2025. the forecast shows high chances of rain this weekend. temperatures are forecasted to be as low as 10 degrees Monday through Wednesday, and range from 16 to 32 degrees every other night. temperature highs are expected to range from 21 to 27 degrees Monday through Wednesday, and 40 to 50 degrees every other day.