Resources

Tips to Support Individual and Community Healing

For Mangos With Chili's 2013 National Queer Arts Festival show FREE: Two Spirit, Trans and Queer People of Color Visions of Freedom, S.D. Shah and Devi collaborated on a video + performance piece where they asked the audience to write responses to the question "What are some things you've done to support your healing and community healing (physical, emotional, cultural, sexual, spiritual, etc.)?" Here's what community members wrote at the show and placed on a physical altar or posted to the event's web stream or facebook page.

Bay Area QTBIPOC Mental Health Services

Does the cost of mental health care stress you out more than the issue you want to see a therapist about?

Ever go to a community clinic, ask for a QTBIPOC therapist, and get assigned to a white lady with faux-locks?

We asked folks in Peacock Rebellion’s networks to point us to low-cost QTBIPOC therapists in the Bay Area. Here’s what people sent us.

We don't update the list, so also check out the Oakland LGBTQ Center's referral list and the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network.

SF Bay Area LGBTQ COVID-19 Relief Website

Overwhelmed by all the COVID-19 web sites and resource lists floating around? Us too. So we’re helping gather content for the new SF Bay Area LGBTQ COVID-19 Relief site, a central hub to get you the info you need. Head there for the latest.

Have a resource to add to that site? Contact us.

If ICE Comes to Your Door

"Being stopped by police is a stressful experience that can go bad quickly. Here we describe what the law requires and also offer strategies for handling police encounters. We want to be clear: The burden of de-escalation does not fall on private citizens — it falls on police officers. However, you cannot assume officers will behave in a way that protects your safety or that they will respect your rights even after you assert them. You may be able to reduce risk to yourself by staying calm and not exhibiting hostility toward the officers. The truth is that there are situations where people have done everything they could to put an officer at ease, yet still ended up injured or killed." - ACLU