resources to support your personal growth
Includes: warm lines, therapist directories, and reading lists for gender identity, queerness, disability and neurodivergence, and sexuality and pleasure.
NON-CARCERAL SUPPORT SERVICES
These are support lines that do not involve the police.
MH Oakland: call or text (510) 999-9MH1, Friday & Saturday nights from 8pm to 8am
THRIVE Lifeline: text “THRIVE” to 1-313-662-8209, 24/7 support
Trans LifeLine: (877) 565-8860
LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564, Monday-Friday 1-9pm, Saturday 9am-2pm
BlackLine call or text line: 1-800-604-5841, Monday-Friday 6am-8pm, Saturday-Sunday 5pm
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: call 888-407-4515, Monday-Thursday 4-6pm, Friday-Sunday 4-7pm
gender identity exploration
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients, Sand Chang, Anneliese A. Singh, and lore m. dickey (nonfiction)
A History of My Brief Body, Billy Ray-Belcourt (nonfiction)
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Kit Heyam (nonfiction)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C Riley Snorton (nonfiction)
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (fiction)
Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H (nonfiction)
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane (nonfiction)
Surviving Transphobia, ed. Laura A. Jacobs (nonfiction)
Tomboy Survival Guide, Ivan Coyote (nonfiction)
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You, Kathryn Gonzales and Karen Rayne (nonfiction)
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices, Kevin Manders and Elizabeth Marston (nonfiction)
Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton (fiction)
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (poetry)
queerness
A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Tan Hoang Nguyen (nonfiction)
Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents, Ray Rachlin & Marea Goodman (nonfiction)
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance, Francesca T. Royster (nonfiction)
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black (fiction)
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays, Jill Gutowitz (nonfiction)
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, Jen Winston (nonfiction)
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir, Lamya H (nonfiction)
How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures, Sabrina Imbler (nonfiction)
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, Saeed Jones
In The Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado (nonfiction)
Kink: Stories, Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon (fiction)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (fiction)
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Christopher Soto (poetry)
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, Brian Broome (nonfiction)
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib (nonfiction)
disability justice
All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Jennifer Natalya Fink (nonfiction)
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure, Eli Clare (nonfiction)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid, Shayda Kafai (nonfiction)
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, Alice Wong (nonfiction)
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (nonfiction)
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It), Jessica McCabe (nonfiction)
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (Second Edition), Sins Invalid (nonfiction)
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, Maxfield Sparrow (nonfiction)
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families, Finn V. Gratton (nonfiction)
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esmé Weijun Wang (nonfiction)
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
True Biz, Sara Nović (fiction)
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price (nonfiction)
sexuality
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, Angela Chen (nonfiction)
Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, Eris Young (nonfiction)
Bang!: Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities, Vic Liu (nonfiction)
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, Emily Nagoski (nonfiction)
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections, Emily Nagoski (nonfiction)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous, Gillian Anderson
honor your truth
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