This page is in process & will continue to be updated over time
This resource page includes a mix of immediate supportive services, therapist directories, and books that I believe can support introspection and healing. I intentionally organized this page to honor the different ways that people receive information. Throughout, I highlight work from Black and Brown authors and creators.
Immediate support services
MH Oakland: call or text (510) 999-9MH1, Friday & Saturday nights from 8pm to 8am
SF 24/7 Suicide Prevention: 415-781-0500 or text 415-200-2930
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County: 1-800-309-2131
Crisis Text Line: Text NAMI to 741-741
Trans LifeLine: (877) 565-8860
Trevor Project LifeLine: 1-866-488-7386
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BlackLine call or text line: 1-800-604-5841
Asian LifeNet Hotline: 1-877-990-8585
Available languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Fujianese
RAINN National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline: 800-656-4673
Live chat
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357
We all look up from our own experience, look out to the world, and say, ‘That hurt. Am I okay? Am I doing this right?’ (You are doing it right. You are okay. When you hurt, you heal.”
Emily Nagoski
Reading list
GENDER IDENTITY EXPLORATION & EMBODIMENT
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)
Nevada, Imogen Binnie (fiction)
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)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo (YA 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)
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau (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)
Leaving Evidence, Mia Mingus (blog)
Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva (nonfiction essay)
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)
The Trans Autistic Guide to Life, Yenn Purkis and Wenn B. Lawson (nonfiction)
True Biz, Sara Nović (fiction)
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price (nonfiction)
SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH
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
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)
The Come as You Are Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Science of Sex, Emily Nagoski
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous, Gillian Anderson
DIFFERENT PATHS OF HEALING
Anti Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, Christy Harrison (nonfiction)
Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection, Mimi Zhu (nonfiction)
Bodies Are Cool, Tyler Feder (children’s book)
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, Jennifer Mullan (nonfiction)
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, Angela Garbes (nonfiction)
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls, Kai Cheng Thom (nonfiction)
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez (nonfiction)
How to Survive the End of the World, Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown (podcast)
Inciting Joy: Essays, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Loving Corrections, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Nervous: Essays on Healing and Heritage, Jen Soriano (nonfiction)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem (nonfiction)
Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World, Laura Mae Northrup (nonfiction)
Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation, Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant (nonfiction)
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (nonfiction)
The Book of Delights, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Book of (More) Delights, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health, Zena Sharman (nonfiction)
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor (nonfiction)
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce, Angie Manfredi (nonfiction)
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (nonfiction)
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, Evette Dionne (nonfiction)
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo (nonfiction)
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat, Aubrey Gordon (nonfiction)
What We Need to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Prentis Hemphill (nonfiction)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (nonfiction)
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” And 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon (nonfiction)