RESOURCES
Below you will find an ever-growing list of resources for QTBIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled and Neurodivergent folks and allies. If you have suggestions for resources to add to this page, please send us an email!
GRIMALKIN RESOURCES
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UMAW aims to organize music workers to fight for a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society. Click here to learn more.
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Our advocates are available for direct service and support. Because each individual has differing needs, what this entails can vary.
Some examples are:
Listening
Validation
Safety Planning
Emotional Support
Help Filling Out Forms
Accompaniment
Connect and refer to other resources and services
Talk through healthy and unhealthy relationships
Emergency Housing and Transportation
Finding ways to take care of ourselves
If you are an LGBTQ+ identified person in Virginia who has experienced violence and/or trauma and needs support, please contact us using this form or call/text (804) 925 9242.
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Cash bail criminalizes poverty and disproportionately affects people of color. We urge you to make donations to your city or county’s local bail funds if they exist. Below is a growing document of bail funds and legal attorneys across the United States.
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Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms. In doing so, Native Land Digital creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can be invited and challenged to learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.
Enter your address and a number of links will appear with different nation names. By clicking on those links, you will be taken to a page specifically about that nation, language, or treaty, where you can view some sources, give feedback, and learn a little more. We are always trying to expand our resources on these pages.
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From the Campaign for Southern Equality in 2023:
It’s been an extraordinarily difficult year for LGBTQ+ youth – and that’s why we are honored to publish a new offering to support the healing and resilience of young people in the South "Keep Your Head Up: A Virtual Wellness Toolkit". As a part of our work to support transgender folks in the South, Campaign for Southern Equality has led wellness workshops in states where gender-affirming care for youth has been banned. These workshops create a space where trans people, their families, and allies can process emotions and heal together, while learning about resources and building community. The virtual wellness toolkit has this same intention – and can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Scroll through the toolkit, and you will find a variety of resources for personal wellness and community care. For those looking for ways to process the stress of living as a trans person in a hostile political climate, there are videos guiding you through exercises to relieve stress and ground you in your purpose, as well as a link to schedule an in-person wellness workshop for your community. For those looking for resources amid youth gender-affirming care bans and “Don’t Say LGBTQ+” school policies, there are links to Campaign for Southern Equality programs that can help, including the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project (STYEP).
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OTHER RESOURCES
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The Trevor Project's 24/7/365 Lifeline at 866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386) or TrevorChat, their online instant messaging option, or TrevorText, a text-based support option. If you are looking for peer support, you can visit TrevorSpace from anywhere in the world.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255)
Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860
Do you live outside the United States? If so, check out The Trevor Project's list of international resources here.
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What kind of active support does a strong white ally provide to a person of color?
Over the years, people of color that I have talked with have been remarkably consistent in describing the kinds of support they need from white allies. Read more >
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This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking. They are damaging to both people of color and to white people. Organizations that are people of color led or a majority people of color can also demonstrate many damaging characteristics of white supremacy culture.
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How do LGBTQ2I people end up incarcerated at three times the rate of the rest of the population Why are 40% of incarcerated women queer? Discriminatory police profiling contributes to the disparity. Read More >
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From Them.com: We’ve organized an abridged list of state and local-level groups fighting for LGBTQ+ justice and survival across the U.S. Most are registered nonprofits, but we’ve also highlighted mutual aid funds and other organizations fighting to build a better, happier, and more resilient future. Read Here >
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TransLash tells trans stories to save trans lives. Beginning in 2018 as a three-part, award-nominated docuseries that focuses on what it’s like to be trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) during Trump-era, anti-transgender backlash in the United States, we have evolved into TransLash Media: a cross-platform media nonprofit & digital community led by founder and creator Imara Jones.
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This workbook and the ACT project is based on the idea that allies to manifestation of societal oppression (i.e. and “ism”, like racism, sexism, or homophobia) need to community in a very mindful way in order to have effective conversations with others who are also not direct targets of that “ism.”
To do that, these white folks need to prepare for these conversations by doing some reflective work of their own – by themselves, in groups with other like-minded white people, and preferably both.
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People who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six more times as likely to be neurodivergent as cisgender people, according to the largest study yet to examine the connection. Read More >
A brief list of neuro-affirming resources by and for Autistic/ADHD folks of all ages. Read More >
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Trans in the South: A Directory of Trans-Affirming Health & Legal Service Providers
A directory of more than 400 Southern health service providers who are trans-affirming.
You’ll find lists of trans-friendly mental health providers, primary care physicians, HIV care specialists, attorneys, endocrinologists, and more across 13 Southern states.
