A growing list of free resources to help us orient towards self-care and community-care at this transformative moment.
All in Social Justice
How To Give A Good Apology
“True accountability is not only apologizing, understanding the impacts your actions have caused on yourself and others, making amends or reparations to the harmed parties; but most importantly, true accountability is changing your behavior so that the harm, violence, abuse does not happen again.” — Mia Mingus
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
“When we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society.”
How I Divested from the Medical Model of Mental Health
“Human nervous systems don’t enjoy exploitation, injustice and powerlessness. What we call mental illness can instead be understood as a pattern of responses to adverse experiences with power and threats to our perception of safety, both at a systemic and interpersonal level.”
Queers & Co. Issue 1
A zine on self-empowerment and body liberation for queers and allies