Help Azlan Heal and Thrive

(Written by a dear friend who wishes to stay anonymous. They've known me since I was a teenager!)

Howdy humans,

Azlan is a dear friend who needs help getting back on their feet after a severe mental health crisis. In the years I’ve known them, they have held onto a light inside of them that can be hard to hold when one sees and feels a lot of the pain in this world. Azlan has survived more than most people would be able to and hold onto themselves, and deserves to know who they are when they are not in consistent life crisis, the kind that are so hard to escape when someone is disabled and unable to work in traditional ways, and spent years misdiagnosed. After ending up in the hospital, they currently have no financial resources to get them back on their feet. They are finally on meds that are working, and see a path forward. Let’s help that path be gentler, and get them housed and cared for while they continue to recover and get grounded in themselves.

Many of you have followed Azlan on instagram or TikTok, these platforms aren’t currently a good place for them to be as they figure out next steps for what is needed to get stable. Bipolar is a disorienting and incredibly stressful disorder, and success in healing and stabilizing is so often found in reducing stressors in environment. I’m asking that we raise 15,000 to get them back on their feet. Azlan is a working artist who is multi-disabled, and has been brilliant about loopholing systems to stay independent. They need a break now to heal, and get back to a place of stability from which then can create and support themself again. Many people who are disabled never get the resources to live the lives they deserve, and I refuse to let someone who loves so big, and who for the first time in there life sees a way forward, not be held up while they land. If you have folks in your life with resources to spare, or you do, we would love your help. Azlan is asking that part of what you are willing to share in mutual aid with them is also shared with the go fund me link here.

So many people are struggling right now, and building care webs and practicing mutual aid is how we will see eachother into a kinder world. Anything you can give will be life changing for them, and for the people who’s fundraiser is attached. Please share this widely so we can take the stress of of fundraising for survival off of them. Thank you loves