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LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

The LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory is a project of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and GLMA – Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality.

It is a free, searchable database of all kinds of doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers who are knowledgeable and sensitive to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ people in the USA and Canada.

LGBTQ+ patients deserve healthcare providers who they can be open and honest with —free from fear of stigma or bias. The simple act of connecting patients with care is a solution to this problem.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
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LGBTQ+ Family Support Guide for Coping with Birth Injuries

LGBTQ+ Family Support Guide for Coping with Birth Injuries

Navigating the complexities of caring for a child with a birth injury or other disability can be overwhelming. For LGBTQ+ families, it may also mean facing healthcare barriers and finding inclusive providers who may not always be close by. Get practical information to help LGBTQ+ parents overcome unique challenges, find essential medical, financial, and emotional support, and deal with discrimination.

LawFirm.com makes it easier to take legal action. We provide information, lawsuit guides, and news about drugs, products, and other personal injury issues that could affect you. If you need a good lawyer, we can help you find one.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Activist
Christi Belcourt

Christi Belcourt

A Métis visual artist from Alberta, Christi Belcourt (apihtâwikosisâniskwêw / mânitow sâkahikanihk)  is not afraid to examine the darker parts of Canadian history, focusing on the experiences of Indigenous people and exploring topics such as biodiversity, the environment, and more.

Belcourt’s work is inspired by Canadian colonial history and stories of flight, violence, survival, and healing. She works across multiple mediums, including clay, copper, wool trade cloth, and other materials.

To learn more about Christi Belcourt’s visual arts practice and activism, please follow her on Facebook @ChristiBelcourt, Twitter @christibelcourt, or on Instagram @christi_belcourt.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
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Marika Sila

Marika Sila

Marika Sila is an Inuvialuk actress, influencer and activist from Yellowknife, NWT. With over a million followers across Instagram and Tiktok, Marika is best known for her work on the popular TV series ‘The Twilight Zone’. Marika specializes in stunts and special skills for film & TV, including; nunchuck, staff, sword handling, hoop dancing and fire spinning. She started her special skills journey as a hoop dancer, and was recently voted Canadian Hoop Dancer of the Year.

She is the owner of RedPath Talent Inc. which is an emerging Indigenous talent agency and production company named after the Indigenous phrase, “Walking the red road” known as walking a path dedicated to sobriety, health and wellness. Marika is 8 years sober and attributes much of her success to that single life choice. Marika believes it is important for youth across the world to have a positive role model who stands for the power of sobriety. Marika’s goal has always been to build a platform to inspire others and to raise awareness about important Indigenous rights and climate issues.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Activist
Sarain Fox

Sarain Fox

Anishinaabekwe storyteller, host of RISE | Future History | Activist | Artist | Content Creator | Goose Person | Art Design | Director #indigiqueer

Sarain Fox is a Canadian Anishinaabe activist, broadcaster and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2020 documentary film Inendi, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host or Interviewer in a News or Information Program or Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[3]

A member of the Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways from near Sault Ste. MarieOntario,[4] she has also been host of the Viceland/APTN documentary series Rise and cohost of APTN’s documentary series Future History.

She appeared as a guest judge in episodes 4 and 5 of the third season of Canada’s Drag Race, as well as episode 2 of Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Activist
Michelle Chubb – Indigenous_baddie

Michelle Chubb – Indigenous_baddie

Part of the Bunibonibee Cree Nation and lives in what is currently known as Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Much of Michelle’s content centres around Indigenous rights, jingle dress dancing, and authentic powwow attire. She proudly displays her traditional regalia and uses her platform to educate others about injustices faced by Indigenous peoples across the globe.

Indigenous rights, direct call-outs to Indigenous injustice, such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and residential schools.

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PRIDE
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Allconnect: LGBTQ youth resources: Bridging the digital divide

Allconnect: LGBTQ youth resources: Bridging the digital divide

As Americans regroup after two years of a pandemic lifestyle, studies are revealing that youth who are in the sexual and gender minority are experiencing depression and anxiety at a faster rate than other groups.

In fact, The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that “45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year,” with 60% of the youth who wanted mental health care in the past year unable to access it. The survey also found that 73% of LGBTQ youth reported having symptoms of anxiety.

Being an LGBTQ young person, unfortunately, means that during their critical adolescent years, they can often feel isolated and misunderstood, lacking the resources they need to maintain their mental health.

With pandemic-related measures in place across the country, youth are at an even greater risk of social isolation and depression. But online resources, including supportive and educational materials, can help them maintain mental and emotional health.

In a Catch-22, the internet can make this necessary information accessible, but only if you have access to the internet.

In this guide, Allconnect researchers take a look at available online resources, as well as address the digital divide and homeless issues within the LGBTQ youth community.

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Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

“Terry Tempest Williams’s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America’s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?”

We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which “oil rigs light up the horizon.” And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself.

These essays are Williams’s call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.”

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Podcast
The Alchemy Experience Podcast

The Alchemy Experience Podcast

The Alchemy Experience Podcast: Episode 39 • Collective Consciousness

The collective consciousness is thus, the field that makes up all the consciousness or all living things and we all interact with it. However, consciousness is fractal by nature and thus, if you have a family or a group of people at work or a team, they all form collectives that feed their unique energy signatures in to the bigger collective. It is this interaction with the collective consciousness that reminds us of our own responsibility in what we feed in to the collective, because we all feed into, manipulate and are affected by the collective consciousness. What you are and how you show up, is your contribution.

 

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Our Environment
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SEI Asia Podcast

SEI Asia Podcast

SEI Asia’s podcast series is a platform for dialogue on critical environmental challenges in Asia and how to address them. Our guests range from environmental experts, think tanks, researchers and policymakers to journalists and civil society who explore collaborative pathways towards improving policy and practice on sustainability challenges in the region.

In this first episode of the SEI Asia miniseries on women environmental defenders, we talk with Tami Alvarez from Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women and Lia Mai Torres from Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines about building solidarity and empowerment.

SEI Asia

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Film
Not Done: Women Re-Making America

Not Done: Women Re-Making America

“An examination on how today’s feminist change-makers continue their predecessors’ efforts to progress toward equality through interviews with activists, writers, celebrities, athletes, and politicians.”

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC)

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC)

Asian Americans have been part of the American story since its earliest days. From those who travelled to the U.S. as a result of changing immigration policies, to refugees who came to American shores in search of safety, to recent immigrants who continue to join our nation in search of the famed “American Dream,” the one indisputable truth about our community is its breadth, diversity, and resilience.

And yet, we have seen our community ignored in national conversations about the very policies that define our experience: immigration, voting rights, and so much more…

Rooted in the dreams of immigrants and inspired by the promise of opportunity, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)  advocates for an America in which all Americans can benefit equally from, and contribute to, the American dream. Our mission is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. Advancing Justice is a national nonprofit founded in 1991 in Washington, D.C.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Film
Sister Outsider by Audre Lourde

Sister Outsider by Audre Lourde

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde’s literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde’s intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde’s oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self.

 

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Black Lives Matter
Book
Film
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Movie Synopsis:
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. She quickly begins facing pressure from all sides, and she must learn to find her voice and stand up for what’s right. Content Warning: Racism, police brutality, gang activity, violence, poverty

Book Description:
“Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.”

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Creativity & Healing
Book
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, How We Show Up returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up–literally and figuratively–points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want.

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Unity & Oneness
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Edesia

Edesia

Edesia is a non-profit, social enterprise that makes life-saving ready-to-use foods to help end the global malnutrition crisis. Since 2010—through our partnerships with UNICEF, WFP, USAID, and others—we have nourished over 18 million children across 62 countries.

Learn more about Edesia by following them on IG @edesianutrition or visit their website

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Creativity & Healing
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Undrowned: Black Femminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Undrowned: Black Femminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

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Creativity & Healing
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140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth,

140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth,

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.

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Creativity & Healing
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Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the ‘wild woman’, the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the ‘wild woman’ has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women’s emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework, Estes reveals that the ‘wild woman’ in us is innately healthy, passionate and wise. Thoughtfully written and compelling in its arguments, Women Who Run With The Wolves gives readers a new sense of direction, a self confidence and purpose in their lives.

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Creativity & Healing
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Big Magic – Creative living beyond fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic – Creative living beyond fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now, this beloved author shares her wisdom and unique understanding of creativity, shattering the perceptions of mystery and suffering that surround the process – and showing us all just how easy it can be. By sharing stories from her own life, as well as those from her friends and the people that have inspired her, Elizabeth Gilbert challenges us to embrace our curiosity, tackle what we most love and face down what we most fear. Whether you long to write a book, create art, cope with challenges at work, embark on a long-held dream, or simply to make your everyday life more vivid and rewarding, Big Magic will take you on a journey of exploration filled with wonder and unexpected joys.

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